(Penalties.-Secs. 16-18. Test-apparatus.-Secs. 19-20.) (d) being a dealer in petroleum, refuses or neglects to show to any shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to contravention of section 7. 16. Whoever keeps, sells or exposes for sale dangerous petroleum in Penalty for vessels not labelled as prescribed by section 7 shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. 17. In any case in which an offence under section 15, clause (a), clause Confiscation (b) or clause (c), or section 16 has been committed, the convicting Magistrate of petroleum. may direct that (a) the petroleum in respect of which the offence has been committed, or of, any petroleum exceeding the quantity (if any) which he is sball, together with the tins or other vessels in which it is contained, be con- 18. The criminal jurisdiction under this Act shall, in the Presidency- Jurisdiction. towns, be exercised by a Presidency Magistrate, and, elsewhere, by a Magistrate of the first class or (where specially empowered by the Local Government to try cases under this Act) a Magistrate of the second class. Test-apparatus. 19. A model of the apparatus for testing petroleum under this Act shall Model testbe deposited in the office of the Chemical Examiner to Government, Calcutta, apparatus. and be marked with the words "Model test-apparatus." of test-appa 20. (1) The Chemical Examiner shall, on payment of the prescribed fee Verification (if any), compare with the said model test-apparatus and verify every appara- ratus. tus for testing petroleum which is submitted to him for the purpose. (2) If any apparatus for testing petroleum, when compared and verified as provided by sub-section (1), is found correct, or correct subject to certain corrections to be applied to the results of the tests, the Chemical Examiner shall stamp the same with a special number and with the date of the verification, G Power to exempt petroleum from operation of Act. Power to apply Act to other substances. Power to limit operation of enactments, relating to possession or transport of petroleum, in munici palities. (Miscellaneous.-Secs. 21-23.) and shall further give a certificate in writing under his hand, in the prescribed form, to the effect that on the date aforesaid the apparatus was compared and verified by him and found to be correct, or correct subject to certain specified corrections to be applied to the results of the tests. (3) A certificate granted under this section shall, until the contrary is proved, be proof of the matters stated therein. (4) The Chemical Examiner shall keep a register, in the prescribed form, of all certificates granted under this section. (5) Subject to the payment of the prescribed fees (if any), the said model test-apparatus shall be at all reasonable times open to inspection by any person desiring to inspect it. Miscellaneous. 21. The Local Government may, by notification in the local official Gazette, exempt from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act, or of all or any of the rules made un der this Act, any petroleum which has its flashing point at or above one hundred and twenty degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer and is imported as or dinary cargo and in quantity not exceeding that specified in the notification. 22. (1) The Governor General in Council may, by notifications in the Gazette of India, apply the whole or any portion of this Act to any substance, other than petroleum, and may by the notification fix, in substitution for the quantities of petroleum fixed by sections 5, 6 and 11, the quantities of the substance to which those sections shall apply. (2) When the whole or any portion of this Act has been applied as aforesaid to any substance other than petroleum, the provisions so applied shall be construed with all necessary modifications and shall have effect as if such other substance had been included in the definitio n of petroleum, 23. The Governor General in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India and in the local official Gazette, limit, in any manner he deems fit, the operation of any enactment for the time being in force relating to local authorities in any local area or to any particular local authority, and the exercise of any power conferred by any such enactment, in so far as the enactment relates to the possession or transport of petroleum. 1 For revised form of certificate, see Gazette of India, 189.), Pt. I, p. 1102. 2 For instance of notification under this section exempting sha le oil, see Bombay Government Gazette, 1899, Pt. I, p. 1154. 8 The provisions of ss. 5, 6, 8 to 10, 23 and 21 have been applied, under this sectiɔn, tɔ carbide of calcium, see Notification No. 1118, dated 11th August, 1899, Gazette of India, 1999, Pt. I,: p. 759. (Miscellaneous.-Secs. 24-25. The First Schedule.-Testing.) 24. (1) Every power to make rules conferred by this Act is subject to the Previous publication, condition of the rules being made after previous publication in such manner1 etc., of rules. as the Governor General in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India, direct. (2) All rules made by the Governor General in Council or by the Local Government under this Act shall be published in the Gazette of India or the local official Gazette, as the case may be, and ou such publication shall bave effect as if enacted by this Act. 25. The enactments mentioned in the second schedule are hereby repealed Repeal. to the extent specified in the fourth column thereof. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. TESTING. (See section 3.) I.-Nature of the Test-apparatus. The apparatus consists of the following parts: (1) the oil-cup; (2) the cover, with slide, test-lamp, aud clockwork arrangement for opening and closing the holes in the cover and for dipping the test-flame; (3) the water-bath or heating vessel; (4) the tripod stand with jacket and spirit-lamp for heating the water-bath; (5) the thern.ometer for indicating the temperature of the oil in the oil-cup; (6) the thermometer for indicating the temperature of the water in the water-bath; (7) the thermometer for indicating the temperature of the oil before it is poured into the oil-cup; (8) the dropping bottle or pipette for replenishing the test-lamp; and (9) a barometer standardised at the Meteorological office of the Province or at any other place appointed by the Local Government. The oil-cup is a cylindrical flat-bottomed vessel made of gun-metal or brass, and tinued or silvered inside. A gauge is fixed to the inside of the cup to regulate the height to which it is to be filled with the sample under examination. The cup is provided with a close-fitting overlapping cover, which carries the thermometer, the test-lamp and the adjuncts thereto. The test-lamp is suspended upon two supports by means of trunnions, which allow it to be easily inclined to a particular angle and restored to its original position. The socket in the cover, which is to hold a round bulb thermometer for indicating the temperature of the oil during the testing operation, is so adjusted that the bulb of the latter is always inserted in a definite position below the surface of the liquid. The cover is provided with three holes, one in the centre and two smaller ones close to the sides. These are closed and opened by means of a pivoted slide. When the slide is moved so as to uncover the holes, the suspended lamp is caught by a projection fixed on the slide, and tilted in such a way as to bring the end of the spout just below the surface of the lid. As the slide moves back so as to cover the holes, the lamp returns to its original position. Upon the For rules as to the manner of publication, see Gazette of India, 1899, Pt. I, p. 244. (The First Schedule.—Testing.) cover, in front of and in a line with the nozzle of the lamp, is fixed a white bead, the diameter of which represents the size of the test-flame to be used. The water-bath or heating vessel is so constructed that, when the oil-cup is placed in position in it, an air-space or air-chamber intervenes between the two: consequently, in applying the test under ordinary circumstances, the heat is transmitted gradually to the oil from the hot water through the air-space. The water-bath is fitted with a socket for receiving a long bulb thermometer, to indicate the temperature of the water. It is also provided with a funnel, an overflow-pipe and two handles. The water-bath rests upon a tripod stand, which is fitted with a copper cylinder or jacket, so that the bath is surrounded by an enclosed air-space, which retains and regulates the heat. One of the legs of the stand serves as a support for a spirit-lamp, which is attached to it by a small wing bracket. The clockwork arrangement, by which during the operation of testing the slide is withdrawn and the test-flame dipped into the cup and raised again as the slide is replaced, is provided with a ratchet key for setting it in action for each test, and with a trigger for starting it each time that the test-flame is applied. II.-Directions for drawing the sample and preparing it for testing. 1. Drawing the sample. In all cases the testing officer or some person duly authorized by him shall personally superintend the drawing of the sample from an original unopened tin or other vessel. An opening sufficiently large to admit of the oil being rapidly poured or cyphoned from the tin or other vessel shall be made. Two bottles, each of the capacity of about forty fluid ounces, are to be filled with the oil. One of these, the contents of which is intended to be preserved for reference in case of need, is to be carefully corked, the cork being well driven home, cut off level with the neck, and melted sealing wax worked into it. The other bottle may be either stoppered or corked. 2. Preparing the sample for testing.-About ten fluid ounces of the oil, sufficient for three tests, are transferred from the bottle into which the sample has been drawn to a pint flask or bottle, which is to be immersed in water artificially cooled until a thermometer, introduced into the oil, indicates a temperature not exceeding 50° Fahrenheit. III.-Directions for preparing and using the Test-apparatus. 1. Preparing the water-bath.-The water-bath is filled by pouring water into the funnel until it begins to flow out at the overflow-pipe. The temperature of the water at the commencement of each test, as indicated by the long bulb thermometer, is to be 130° Fahrenheit, and this is attained in the first instance by mixing hot and cold water, either in the bath or in a vessel from which the bath is filled, until the thermometer which is provided for testing the temperature of the water gives the proper indication; or the water is heated by means of the spirit-lamp (which is attached to the stand of the apparatus) until the required temperature is indicated. 2. Preparing the test-lamp. The test-lamp is fitted with a piece of cylindrical wick of such thickness that it fills the wick-holder, but may readily be moved to and fro for the purpose of adjusting the size of the flame. In the body of the lamp, upon the wick, which is coiled within it, is placed a small tuft of cotton wool, moistened with petroleum, any oil not absorbed by the wool being removed. When the lamp has been lighted the wick is adjusted by means of a pair of forceps until the flame is of the size of the bead fixed on the cover of the oil-cup; should a particular test occupy so long a time that the flame begins to get smaller, through the supply of oil in the lamp (The First Schedule.—Testing.) becoming exhausted, three or four drops of petroleum are allowed to fall upon the tuft of wool in the lamp from the dropping bottle or pipette provided for that purpose. This can be safely done without interrupting the test. 3. Filling the oil-cup.-The oil-cup having been previously cooled, by placing it bottom downwards in water at a temperature not exceeding 50° Fahrenheit, is to be rapidly wiped dry, placed on a level surface in a good light, and the oil to be tested is poured in very slowly, without splashing until its surface is level with the point of the gauge which is fixed in the cup. The round bulb thermometer is inserted into the lid of the cup, care being taken that the projecting rim of the collar touches the edge of the socket; the test-lamp, prepared as already described, is placed in position, and the cover is then put on to the cup and pressed down so that its edge rests on the rim of the cup. 4. Application of the test.-The water-bath, with its thermometer in position, is placed in some locality where it is not exposed to currents of air, and where the light is sufficiently subdued to admit of the size of the entire test-flame being compared with that of the bead on the cover. The cup is carefully lifted without shaking it, and placed in the bath, the test-lamp is lighted, and the clockwork wound up by turning the key. The thermometer in the oil-cup is now watched, and when the temperature has reached 56° Fahrenheit, the clockwork is set in motion by pressing the trigger. If no flash takes place, the clockwork is at once rewound and the trigger pressed at 57° Fahrenheit, and so on, at every degree rise of temperature, until the flash occurs, or until a temperature of 95° Fahrenheit has been reached. If the flash takes place at any temperature below 77° Fahrenheit, the temperature at which it -occurs is to be recorded. Two fresh portions of the sample are then to be successively tested in a similar manner and the results recorded. If no greater difference than 2° Fahrenheit exists between any two of the three recorded results, and if in no instance the flash has taken place within eight degrees of the temperature at which the testing is commenced, each result is to be corrected for atmospheric pressure as hereafter described, and the average of the three corrected results is the flashing point of the sample. In the event of there being a greater difference than 2° Fahrenheit between any two of the results, while in no instance has the flash taken place within eight degrees of the temperature at which the testing was commenced, the series of tests is to be rejected, and a fresh series of three similarly obtained, and so on, until a sufficiently concordant series is furnished, when the results are to be corrected and the average taken in the manner already described. If, however, a flash has occurred at or below 64° when the test is applied in the manner above described, the next testing shall be commenced ten degrees lower than the temperature at which the flash had been previously obtained (that is to say, at 54° or thereunder), and this procedure shall be continued until the results of three consecutive tests do not show a greater difference than 2° and until a flash has not occurred in any of the three tests within eight degrees of the temperature at which the testing is commenced: Provided always that, if at the commencement of the series of tests a flash has occurred on the first application of the test-flame at 56°, and if a flash has also occurred on the first application of the flame in each of three successive tests in which, thereupon, the test-flame is first applied at 46° as above directed, the testing officer shall certify that the petroleum has a flashing point below 47°, and the sample shall be reported dangerous. If a temperature of 76° Fahrenheit has been reached without a flash occurring, the application of the test-flame is to be continued at every degree rise of temperature until a temperature of 95° Fahrenheit has been reached. If no flash has occurred up to this point, and if the petroleum is dcclared to be imported subject to the provisions of the Act, the tests shall not be continued, and the testing officer shall certify that the petroleum has a flashing point over 95° and is not dangerous. But, if the petroleum is oil ordinarily used for lubricating purposes and is declared to have its |