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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[June 24,1671. 
formation of the museum, and expressed a "belief that, at 
the commencement of the next session, a very fair num¬ 
ber of specimens would he classified and arranged. 
After referring to the poison regulations proposed by the 
Pharmaceutical Society at the request of the Privy 
Council, the assistance to provincial associations by the 
parent society and other matters of special interest to 
the profession, he concluded by thanking the members 
for the invariable courtesy and kindness he had always 
received at their hands during the three years he had 
held the position as president of their society. 
The Annual Report of the Council was then read and 
adopted. 
A special vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturers, 
more especially to Mr. Mayfield, who conducted the 
class on materia medica and pharmacy. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing- 
year:— President: Mr. J. H. Atherton, F.C.S. Vice- 
President: Mr. W. H. Parker. Treasurer: Mr. John 
Rayner. Plan. Secretary: Mr. R. Fitzhugh, F.C.S. 
Council: Messrs. Woodward, Jackson, Mayfield, W. 
Smith, Whitworth, F. White, Lewis and J. Jenkins. 
A BILL INTITULED AN ACT FOR THE SAFE 
KEEPING OF PETROLEUM AND OTHER 
SUBSTANCES OF A LIKE NATURE. 
W liereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the 
law relating to the safe keeping of petroleum and other 
substances of a like nature : 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spi¬ 
ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par¬ 
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as 
follows: 
1. This Act may be cited as “The Petrolemn Act, 
1871.” 
2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, 
the following terms have the meanings hereinafter as¬ 
signed to them ; that is to say, 
The term “borough” means— 
In England any place for the time being- subject to 
the provisions of the Act of the session of the fifth 
and sixth years of the reign of King William the 
Fourth, chapter seventy-six, “to provide for the 
regulation of municipal corporations in England and 
Wales,” and the Acts amending the same; 
In Scotland any royal burgh and any burgh or town 
returning or contributing to return a member or 
members to serve in Parliament; 
In Ireland any place for the time being subject to the 
provisions of the Act of the session of the" third and 
fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty, 
chapter one hundred and eight, “ for the regulation 
of municipal corporations in Ireland, and the Acts 
amending the same;” 
The term “ person” includes a body corporate : 
The term “ Secretary of State” means one of her Ma¬ 
jesty’s Principal Secretaries of State: 
The term “Lord Lieutenant” means the Lord Lieu¬ 
tenant of Ireland or the lords justices or other chief 
-governors or governor of Ireland for the time being: 
The term “harbour” means any harbour properly so 
called, whether natural or artificial, and any port, haven, 
estuary, navigable river, dock, pier, jetty, or other works 
in or at which ships do or can ship or unship goods or 
passengers: 
The term “ harbour authority” includes any persons 
or person being or claiming to be proprietors or pro¬ 
prietor of or intrusted with the duty or invested with 
the power of improving, maintaining, or managing anv 
_ harbour: 
The term “ ship” includes every description of vessel 
used in navigation, whether propelled by oars or other¬ 
wise : 
The term “ Summary Jurisdiction Acts” means, is 
follows : 
As to England, the Act of the session of the eleventh 
and twelfth years of the reign of her present Ma¬ 
jesty, chapter forty-three, intituled “An Act to 
facilitate the performance of the duties of justices 
of the peace out of sessions within England and 
W ales with respect to summary convictions and 
orders,” and any Acts amending the same : 
As to Scotland, “The Summary Procedure Act, 1864 
As to Ireland, within the police district of Dublin me¬ 
tropolis, the Acts regulating the powers and duties 
of justices of the peace for such district, or of the 
police of such district; and elsewhere in Ireland, 
“ The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851,” and any 
Act amending the same : 
The term “Court of Summary Jurisdiction” means 
and includes any justice or justices of the peace, sheriff 
or sheriff substitute, metropolitan police magistrate, sti¬ 
pendiary or other magistrate, or officer, by whatever 
name called, to whom jurisdiction is given by The Sum¬ 
mary Jurisdiction Acts or any Acts therein referred to, 
or to proceedings before whom the provisions of the 
Summary Jurisdiction Acts are or may be made appli¬ 
cable : 
The term “county rate” means as regards Scotland 
the county general assessment leviable in pursuance of 
“ The County General Assessment (Scotland) Act, 1868.” 
3. For the purposes of this Act the term “petroleum” 
includes any rock oil, Rangoon oil, Burmak oil, oil made 
from petroleum, coal, schist, shale, peat, or other bitu¬ 
minous substance, and any products of petroleum, or any 
of the above-mentioned oils ; and the term “ petroleum, 
to which this Act applies,” means such of the petroleum 
so defined, as, when tested in manner set forth in sche¬ 
dule one to this Act, gives off an hifiammable vapour at 
a temperature of less than eighty-five degrees of Fah¬ 
renheit's thermometer. 
4. Every harbour authority shall frame and submit 
for confirmation to the Board of Trade bye-laws for 
regulating the place or places at which ships carrying 
petroleum to which this Act applies are to be moored in 
the harbour over which such authority has jurisdiction, 
and are to land their cargo, and for regulating the time 
and mode of, and the precautions to be taken on, such 
landing. The harbour authority shall publish the bye¬ 
laws so framed with a notice of the intention of such 
authority to apply for the confirmation thereof. The 
Board of Trade may confirm such bye-laws with or 
without any omission, addition or alteration, or may dis¬ 
allow the same. 
Every such bye-law when confirmed shall be pub¬ 
lished by the harbour authority, and may be from time 
to time altered or repealed by a bye-law made in like 
manner. Bye-lav, r s under this section shall be published 
in such manner as the Board of Trade may from time to 
time diroct. 
If at any time it appears to the Board Of Trade that 
there is no bye-law for the time being in force under 
this section in any harbour the Board of Trade may, by 
notice, require the harbour authority of such harbour to 
frame and submit to them a bye-law for the purposes of 
this section, and if such harbour authority make default 
in framing a bye-law and obtaining the confirmation 
thereof within the time limited by such notice, the Board 
of Trade may make a bye-law for the purposes of this 
section, and such bye-law shall have the same effect as 
if it had been framed by the harbour authority and con¬ 
firmed by the Board of Trade. 
Where any ship or cargo is moored, landed or other¬ 
wise dealt with in contravention of any bye-law for the 
time being in force under this Act in any harbour, the 
owner and master of such ship, or the owner of such 
cargo, as the case may be, shall each incur a penalty not 
