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Clause 11 .—Generally for regulating any matter which public safety or convenience may require. 
1. No fire or light shall under any circumstances bo taken inside any building forming part of a 
factory (other than those specified by an inspector), nor any light except an authorized lantern provided 
for that purpose, and that only by the foreman. All persons entering the factories, and before passing 
within the fencing thereof, shall examine their clothes to see that they have no matches or other dangerous 
articles in their pockets or about, their persons, and the foreman shall satisfy himself that such examination 
is carefully carried out, and shall himself from time to time search the persons employed, and satisfy himself 
that they have no such daugerous articles about them ; and 
2. No delivery whatever of explosives from the factory magazine shall be mado without a written 
order from the licensee or his agent, duly signed by either of them, and such delivery shall be made only 
in the presence of the foreman ; and 
3. The keys of the factoiy magazine shall remain in sole charge of the foreman, and in his unavoid¬ 
able absence in charge of a deputy duly authorized in writing by the licensee or his agent; and 
4. The foreman shall keep a stock-book for each factory magazine, showing at all times the 
quantities in store and the quantities taken in and out ; and 
5. The gates of the fences and the doors of the magazines shall be kept securely locked, except 
during inspection and at such times as explosives are being stored or removed. The foreman or other 
person in charge of the keys shall be responsible for the due observance of this rule. 
0. No tools or instruments of any description shall be taken into the magazines for any purpose, nor 
used outside the magazines for opening or closing the cases of explosives, except those duly authorized and 
provided for that purpose ; and 
7. No cases or boxes containing explosives which are broken or defective shall be admitted into the 
magazines, nor shall any explosive be admitted which is not apparently packed in the manner directed by 
the Explosive Substances Act. Any explosive which may bo spilt shall at once bo carefully taken up and 
destroyed; and 
8. On the approach of a thunderstorm the magazines and other places pointed out by the inspector 
shall be closed, and every person engaged in and about them shall withdraw therefrom. 
9. All carriages used in the conveyance of explosives along public roads shall be of good and sub¬ 
stantial construction, suitably roofed, and capable of being securely closed by means of doors and locks, 
and shall have the word “ Explosives” painted in plain and conspicuous letters on both sides thereof; and 
no explosive shall be conveyed along a public road in any such carriage after sunset or before sunrise. 
Nevertheless ordinary blasting powder and sporting powder may be conveyed at all hours along a 
public road in any description of carriage, in quantities not exceeding one hundred pounds in weight. 
10. Any safety fuse or other explosive, the manufacture and storage of which shall be considered 
to be unattended with danger, may bo excepted from the operation of a part or the whole of these 
regulations by order of the Governor in Council. 
“ THE EXPLOSIVES ACT 1877.”—ADDITIONAL REGULATION. 
\_From the “ Victoria Government Gazette' 1 of 28th November 1879 . No. 115, page 2786 .] 
The Governor in Council has made the following additional Regulation under the provisions of 
section 5 of The Explosives Act 1877, viz.:— 
The quantity of any explosives or ingredients that may be placed or stored at any one time in any 
factory licensed under the provisions of The Explosives Act 1877, or in any part thereof, shall not exceed 
such quantity as may from time to time bo allowed, in writing, by the Honorable the Minister of Mines. 
APPENDIX J. 
REPORT TO THE RIGHT HON. THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME 
DEPARTMENT ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING AN EXPLOSION OF 
DYNAMITE AT THE TOWN HILL COLLIERY, DUNFERMLINE, ON 17tii DECEMBER, 
1883; BY COLONEL VIVAN DERING MAJENDIE, C.B., ILM. CHIEF INSPECTOR OF 
EXPLOSIVES. 
Sir, Homo Office, 31st December, 1883. 
I have the honour to report that in obedience to your order, made under the 66th section of the 
Explosives Act 1875, I have held an inquiry into the causes of and the circumstances attending an explo¬ 
sion of dynamite which occurred on the 17th December, 1883, at the Town Hill Colliery, Dunfermline, 
whereby one man was killed and another sustained injury. 
In accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned section of the Act, I beg to furnish the 
following report:— 
I think it right to state at the outset that I found very considerable reluctance on the part of two of 
the survivors who were present at the accident, and whom I examined, to make any sufficient explanatory 
statements on the subject. They were apparently afraid of either fixing blame upon themselves or upon 
the man who was killed; and although it is possible they may not have actually witnessed what the 
deceased was doing at the moment the explosion occurred, I am satisfied that they could, had they so 
desired, have given me much fuller and more useful information in regard to the circumstances of the case 
than they actually did. 
The accident appears to have occurred as follows :— 
Four men (John Hutcheson, Edward Neilson, Henry Hunter, and Alexander Williamson) were 
engaged under a contractor, Hogg Neilson, in driving two headings iu No, 7 pit of Town Hill Colliery, at 
