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16. Charges should always be fired by a detonator. 
17. The primer with cap affixed must never be rammed. 
18. The cartridge should pass easily to the bottom of the bore-liole. Cartridges which lit the hole 
tightly must not be forced down by ramming. 
APPENDIX II. 
IMPORTATION OF EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES.—REGULATIONS. 
[From the “ Victoria Government Gazelle ” of 1st December, 1882. No. 125.'] 
Whereas by The Importation and Custody of Gunpowder Statute 1864 and the Act No. 440, and 
The Explosives Act 1877, power is given to the Governor in Council to make and to rescind regulations 
providing for the storage of gunpowder, guncotton, and any substance used for blasting or exploding mines, 
and to license on such conditions as he may deem fit any private magazine for the storage of any such 
substance as aforesaid, and by order to prohibit, either absolutely or subject to conditions or restrictions, 
the manufacture, keeping, or importation from any place out of Victoria, or the conveyance or sale of any 
of them, of any explosive which is of so dangerous a character that in the judgment of the Governor in 
Council it is expedient for the public safety to make such order: Now therefore His Excellency the 
Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, having regard to the dangerous character of 
certain explosives, and it being in his judgment expedient for the public safety that the importation from 
places out of Victoria of such explosives and the keeping of the same should bo subject to certain 
conditions and restrictions, doth in pursuance of such powers hereby make the following Regulations in lieu 
of the Regulations made on the 24th day of July, 1882, which are hereby rescinded (that is to say):— 
1. Interpretation. —The words “ explosive ” and “ ship ” in these regulations shall have the same 
respective meanings as are assigned to them in the first section of The Explosives Act 1877, and the word 
“ gunpowder ” wherever the same occurs in these regulations shall mean any powder composed only of a 
mixture of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal, and the word “ promises ” shall mean any house, storehouse, ware¬ 
house, shop, cellar, yard, building, or enclosed space occupied by the same person or persons. 
2. No person or persons shall, under any circumstances, import into Victoria any explosive, other 
than gunpowder, which has been manufactured for more than six months prior to the date of its arrival. 
Each case imported into Victoria containing any explosive shall be marked in legible and indelible 
characters showing the date of its manufacture, the name of the explosive, and the name of the consignee 
or importer. 
3. Explosives (except gunpowder') not to he landed without permission and inspection. —No ship 
having on board any explosive other than gunpowder shall land such explosive in any port in Victoria, 
unless previous application in writing lias been made to and permission in writing obtained from the Com¬ 
missioner of Trade and Customs, and unless such explosive has been previously inspected by a Government 
inspector, and such permission shall be shown to any pilot or any officer of the Customs Department who 
may demand to see the same. 
4. Application to be accompanied by report of one competent expert. —Such application shall in the 
case of any oxplosivo other than gunpowder state the name or names by which such explosive is usually 
known, and shall he accompanied by a report of the components mid properties of such explosive ; such 
report shall state the date of tlieir examination, and shall have attached thereto the duly attested signature 
of at least one competent expert who has examined the explosivo previous to shipment. 
5. Ships with more than 20 lbs. may be ordered to any specified part of Fort Phillip. —Any ship 
arriving in Port Phillip Bay and having on board more than twenty pounds of any explosive other than 
gunpowder may bo ordered by the Commissioner of Trade and Customs to lie in any part of Port Pliillip 
Bay which the Commissioner may specify until such explosive lie duly discharged, destroyed, or otherwise 
dealt with. 
0. Explosives may be temporarily stored on powder hulks. —Explosives other than gunpowder in 
course of transit may be stored upon an explosives hulk temporarily only, and all such explosives shall be 
removed from any explosives hulk where the same have been temporarily stored as soon as conveniently 
may be to some duly licensed magazine or other place where the same may legally be kept, and no sucli 
explosives shall be permitted to remain on board an explosives bulk for more than two months, 
7. No explosive other than gunpowder that has been manufactured more than nine months shall 
remain in any Government magaziuo or hulk or in any licensed magazine. 
Licenses for Magazines for the Storage or Keeping of Explosives. 
8. Explosives not to be kejrt on unlicensed premises. —No person (except a “ dealer v within the 
meaning of Act No. 190) shall keep more than twenty-five pounds of gunpowder nor more than five pounds 
of any other explosive on any premises not duly licensed, and no person shall keep gunpowder on any such 
premises so long as there is any other explosive thereon. 
9. Ammunition for sporting purposes excepted. —The preceding regulation shall not be deemed to 
extend or to apply to the making, keeping, or selling of cartridges aud other ammunition used only for 
sporting purposes. 
*10. {See Order hi Council of 19th June, 1883 , page 122.) 
11. Applications for licenses. —Every application for a licouse for a private magazine must bo in 
writing, addressed to the Minister of Minos, and before the Minister grants a license to the person making 
such application he shall cause such inquiry and report to he made in respect to such application as the 
circumstances of tho case nmy seem to him to require. 
12. Maximum quantity to be stored to be named in license. —The maximum quantity of explosives 
to he stored in each private magazine shall be stated in the license; but ill no instance shall such maximum 
exceed one ton, 
