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Bitting- alone or with others at some court or other 
place appointed for the administration of justice ; 
that is to say, the sheriff of the county or his sub¬ 
stitute, or the provost or other magistrate of a 
royal burgh, or some other officer or officers for 
the time being empowered by law to do alone or 
with others any act authorized to be done by more 
than one justice of the peace: 
■(e) In Ireland, within the police district of Dublin 
metropolis, one of the divisional justices of the 
police district of Dublin metropolis, and elsewhere 
of two or more justices of the peace in petty ses¬ 
sions, sitting at a place appointed for holding 
petty sessions. 
3. The description of any offence under this Act in the 
words of such Act shall be sufficient in law. 
4. Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse or quali¬ 
fication, whether it does or not accompany the de¬ 
scription of the offence in this Act, may be proved 
by the defendant, but need not be specified or nega¬ 
tived in the information; and if so specified or nega¬ 
tived, no proof in relation to the matters so specified 
or negatived shall be required on the part of the 
informant or prosecutor. 
•5. No conviction or order made in pursuance of this 
Act shall be quashed for want of form or be removed 
by certiorari or otherwise, either at the instance of 
the crown or of any private party, into any superior 
court. Moreover, no warrant of commitment shall 
be held void by reason of any defect therein, pro¬ 
vided that there is a valid conviction to maintain 
such warrant, and it is alleged in the warrant that 
the party has been convicted. 
6. All forfeitures may be sold or otherwise disposed of 
in such manner as the court may direct. 
16. All powers given by this Act shall be deemed to 
the in addition to and not in derogation of any other 
powers conferred on any local or harbour authority by 
Act of Parliament, law, or custom, and every local autho¬ 
rity and harbour authority may exercise such other 
powers in the same manner as if this Act had not passed; 
and nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed to 
•exempt any person from any penalty to which he would 
•otherwise be subject in respect of a nuisance. 
17. The Acts mentioned in schedule two to this Act 
are hereby repealed to the extent in that schedule men¬ 
tioned. 
Provided that such repeal shall not affect any Order 
in Council made, or any licence granted, under any Act 
Iiereby repealed or any liability or penalty incurred in 
xespect of any offence committed before the passing of 
this Act, or any remedy or proceeding for enforcing such 
liability or penalty, and every such order, so far as re¬ 
lates to the matters provided for by this Act, and every 
such licence shall have effect as if it had been made or 
granted under this Act. 
SCHEDULES. 
SCHEDULE ONE. 
Directions for Testing Petroleum to Ascertain the Tempe¬ 
rature at which it Gives Off Inflammable Vapour. 
The apparatus to be employed in this test shall con¬ 
sist of:— 
(a) An outer vessel of metal to contain water, about 
four inches in diameter and four inches deep, so contrived 
that some source of heat, such as a spirit-lamp or gas- 
burner, can be applied to it to heat the water which it 
contains :— 
(5) An inner vessel of thin metal to contain the petro¬ 
leum to be tested, about two inches in diameter and two 
inches deep, provided with an external rim or flange, 
.above which the edge of the vessel shall rise about one- 
fourth of an inch, and by which it may be supported in 
the outer vessel so that its contents may be heated through 
Ihe medium of the water. 
The inner vessel for the petroleum shall bo provided 
with a cover of thin metal fitting to the edge which rises 
above the rim or flange already described. This cover 
shall be about half an inch deep, so that its top may 
be half an inch above the surface of the petroleum to 
be tested. In the cover there must be fitted a Fahren¬ 
heit thermometer with a spherical bulb, in the scale of 
which ten degrees shall occupy at least half an inch in 
length; the thermometer must be placed in such a posi¬ 
tion that the bulb shall be just covered by the petroleum. 
Near the front edge of the cover there shall be a circular 
opening, and through this the petroleum is to be tested. 
This opening is to be provided with a small moveable 
cover. 
In making the experiment with this apparatus, the 
water in the outer vessel shall in every case be heated to 
eighty degrees Fahrenheit before the petroleum is put 
into the inner vessel. When the temperature of the 
water has reached eighty degrees, the source of heat must 
be withdrawn, the inner vessel must then bo filled with 
the petroleum to be tested up to the level of the outer 
rim or flange, which must be indicated by a mark on the 
inside, and the cover with the thermometer must be put 
in its place. The source of heat must now be again 
placed beneath the vessel containing the water, and when 
the temperature of the petroleum in the inner vessel has 
reached eighty degrees, a small light should be applied to 
the circular opening in the cover; if the vapour be not 
ignited, that is if no pale blue flash or flicker of light be 
produced, the application of the light should be repeated 
at about every two degrees of increase of temperature 
until the flash of the ignited vapour be observed, and the 
temperature at which the first flash takes place is the 
temperature at which that sample of potroleum gives off 
an inflammable vapour. 
In every case a second experiment shall be made to 
check the results obtained in the first. 
A model of the apparatus described above is deposited 
with the warden of the standards, and reference shall be 
made to it in case of any difficulty or dispute as to the 
meaning of the terms employed in this description. 
SCHEDULE TWO. 
Year and 
Chapter. 
Title. 
Extent of 
Repeal. 
25 & 26 Yict. 
c. 66. 
29 & 30 Yict. 
c. 69. 
31 & 32 Yict. 
c. 56. 
An Act for the Safe Keep¬ 
ing of Petroleum. 
The Carriage and De¬ 
posit of Dangerous 
Goods Act, 1866. 
The Petroleum Act, 1868. 
The whole 
Act. 
Sections 
eight and 
nine. 
The whole 
Act. 
HOUSE OF LORDS. 
Petroleum Bill. — June 16.—A Bill for the safe keep¬ 
ing of petroleum and other substances of a like nature 
was presented by the Earl of Morley, and read a first 
time. . 
June 20.—The Earl of Morley, in moving the second 
reading of the Petroleum Bill, explained that it consoli¬ 
dated the former Acts on the subject, and the existing 
regulations as to the landing, storage, etc. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
Pharmacy Bill. — June 19.—The Pharmacy Bill, hav¬ 
ing passed the House of Lords, was brought in and read 
a first time. Ordered to be read a second time on Mon¬ 
day, June 26. . _ 
Weights and Measures (Metric System) Bill. 
June 21.—The second reading of this Bill was deferred 
till Wednesday, July 26. 
