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13. Licensees to comply with certain rules. —The licensees of magazines shall comply with the 
following regulations:— 
(1.) Every package, except packages containing gunpowder, received therein shall ho marked, in 
legible and indelible characters, with the date of the receipt of such package into the magazine, 
and no package shall be allowed to remain for more than three months in any magazine. 
(2.) Any Government inspector may enter all magazines at any hour at which it may seem to such 
inspector reasonable or necessary that he should enter for the purposes of inspecting such 
magazine or the explosives therein. 
14. Revocation of liceyise .—If a holder of any license under these regulations bo proved, to the 
satisfaction of the Minister of Mines, to have committed any breach of these regulations or conditions, or if 
it be shown, to the satisfaction of the Minister, that the continuance of such license is dangerous to the 
public, the Minister may thereupon revoke such license wholly or for such time as he thinks fit. 
Factories. 
15. Manufacturers and dealers to keep a record of sales .—Every occupier of any factory licensed 
for the manufacture of explosives, and every dealer selling any explosive except gunpowder, shall keep a 
record of the name and address of each person to whom and the date on which he sells such explosive, 
together with the description of such explosive and the quantity thereof sold. 
Penalties. 
16. Penalty for contravention of regulations with regard to importation. — Sec. 8, No. 592.—If any 
explosive is imported or conveyed in contravention of any of the preceding regulations, such explosives may 
be forfeited, and the owner or master of the ship in which the samo is so imported or conveyed shall 
be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten shillings for every pound of such explosive brought in such ship; 
and the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, the collectors, and all officers of Customs shall have the same 
power with regard to any such explosive, and the ship conveying the same, as they have for the time being 
with respect to any article prohibited to be imported by the laws relating to the Customs and the ship 
containing the same. 
17. Penalty for contravention of regulations with regard to keeping and selling .— Sec. 8, No. 592.— 
If any explosive be delivered to any person, or if any person sell or keep any explosive in contravention of 
any of the preceding regulations, such explosive may be forfeited, and the person to whom such explosive 
is so delivered, and the person so selling or keeping the same, shall he liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten 
shillings for every pound of such explosive delivered or sold, kept or found in his possession. 
18. Penalty for contravention of regulations relating to storage. — Sec. 1, No. 440.—If any person 
offend against any of the preceding regulations relating to the storage of explosives, he shall bo liable to 
forfeit such explosive in respect of which he so offends, and he shall in addition be liable to a penalty not 
exceeding One hundred pounds sterling. 
And the Honorable Robert Burrowes, Her Majesty’s Minister of Mines for Victoria, shall give the 
necessary directions herein accordingly. 
ROB. WADSWORTH, 
Clerk of the Executive Council. 
Notice. 
With reference to the above order, the attention of masters of vessels and importers of gunpowder 
is directed to the following sections of“ The Importation and Custody of Gunpowder Statute 18G4”:_ 
“ Section G.—The master of every ship arriving in any port of Victoria with gunpowder on board, 
whether as stores or cargo, shall at the time of making entry at the Custom House specially report the same, 
and if any gunpowder be not so reported it shall bo forfeited, and the master neglecting to make such report 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty for such omission or neglect any sum not exceeding One hundred pounds.” 
“ Section 7.—No gunpowder shall be landed from any ship except between the hours of seven in 
the morning and five in the afternoon, and any person who shall land or be concerned in landing any 
gunpowder contrary hereto shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five pounds for every barrel or package 
of such guupowder so landed contrary to this provision.” 
a Section 8.—Every ship or vessel having gunpowder on board exceeding twenty pounds in all 
shall immediately on entering any port in Victoria hoist a union jack at the mainmast head, which union 
jack shall not bo hauled down until the gunpowder on board is landed according to law.” 
“ Section 9.—The importer of gunpowder at any port where a public magazine shall have been 
appointed, or a private magazine shall have been licensed, shall within twenty-four hours after the arrival 
of the importing ship enter such gunpowder at the Custom House, and shall obtain from the collector 
or other principal officer a permit for the same to bo landed and deposited in one of such magazines, 
which permit shall describe the said gunpowder and name of the magazine in which it is to bo deposited.” 
“ Section 10.—No boat shall be used for the conveyance of gunpowder, either to or from any ship 
or wharf or other place, unless duly licensed for that purpose in accordance with the provisions of the Act 
now in force, or some Act hereafter to be in force, relating to the Customs, and no gunpowder shall 
be landed or conveyed from any ship until notice shall have been given to the water police, if any 
there he at the port or place where such ship shall lie, in sufficient time to enable the police to give such 
directions as may be necessary to prevent danger, which directions the officer or person in charge of such 
gunpowder shall in all things obey.” 
“ Section 11.—No gunpowder shall be removed from any ship for conveyance to the magazine 
except between the hours of seven in the morning and four in the afternoon, or shall be permitted to 
be deposited in the magazine except between the hours of seven in the morning and four in the after¬ 
noon.” 
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