The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-24 00:00:00

BYELAWS

Proposed to be made by the Company of Proprietors of
the Stourbridge Navigation in pursuance of the
Explosives Act, 1875, with the sanetiou of the Board of
Trade, for regulating the conveyance, loading, and un-
loading of explosives upon the Stourbridge Navigation or
any wharf connected therewith.

Section 3 of the Explosives Act, 1875, defines the term
" explosive " as follows:—
(1.) Gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton
blasting powders, fulminate of mercury, or of
other metals, coloured fires, ad every other sub-
stance, whether similar to those above mentioned
or not, used or mantifactured with a view to
produce a practical eject by explosion or a
pyrotechnic eject ; and also
(2.) Fog-signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percusssion
caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all
descriptions, and every adaptation or prepara•
:ion of an explosive as above defined.

1. No person shall send or convey, or cause to be sent
or conveyed on-to or upon the Navigation or any wharf
connected therewith, for discharge or conveyance as
merchandise, any gunpowder or other explosive without
having previously given to the principal agent or some
wharfinger or toll collector of the company a six hours'
written notice, stating the nature, quantity, and destina-
tion of such explosive, and the place where it is intended
to be brought on-to the Navigation, and having had an
intimation from the Company that they are prepared to
receive the consignment,
2. The master of every ship or boat carrying any gun-
powder or other explosive shall immediately upon such
ship or boat entering upon the Navigation, or taking any
gunpowder or other explosive on board, give to the
agent or servant of the Company in charge of the
nearest collecting station, or office, a written notice
stating the nature, quantity, and destination of such
gunpowder or other explosive.
3. No person shall send or convey or cause to be sent
or conveyed on-to or upon the Navigation, or on-to any
wharf connected therewith for conveyance as merchandise
any gunpowder or other explosive which is not securely
packed in manner prescribed by the said Act, or by the
Rules relating to packing for the time being in force
thereunder, as the case may be, and which has not
legibly marked upon each outermost packet by label or
brand, in the case of percussion caps, or of fuzes for
blasting, the words " Percussion Caps," or " uscs for
Blasting; as the case may be, together with the name
and address of the owner or sender; and in the case of
gunpowder, the word " Gunpowdei ; " and in the ease
of other explosives the name of the explosive and the
word " Explosive," together with the name of the
owner or sender, and otherwise as direeted by the
Act, and by Rules made thereuuder,in force for the time
being.
4. No person shall send or convey or cause to be sent
or conveyed on-to or upon the Navigation, any gun-
powder or other exidosive, except in the held of a ship
or boat, with a closed deck, closely fitting hatches,
securely fastened and covered with tarpaulin or raw
hides, and double balk heads at each end of the stowage
spate, lined with some non-combustible material. No
iron or steel shall be placed in the interior of the portion
of such ship or boat where the explosive is deposited,
unless the same be covered either permanently or
temporarily with leather, wood, cloth, wadmill-tilts, or
other suitable material; nor shall any fire-place, stove,
or stove-pipe in such ship or boat be nearer to the
stowage space than 18 inches from the outside of the
bulk head, which shall be covered near such fire-place,
stove, or stove-pipe with lead. All packages containing
,iikowder or other explosive shall be laid in the hold
.4, and covered with tarpauling, raw nines,
wadsuill-
tilts, or other suitable material. In the stowing of
explosive in any ship or boat due precaution shall be
taken by means of a partition or otherwise, and by care-
ful stowing, to secure such explosive from being brought
into contact with or endangered by any other article or
substance conveyed in such ship or boat which is liable
to cause fire or explosion.
5. Any explosive of the sth (Fulminate) Class, or
any such explosive of the GUS (tkmmunition) Class, as
contains its own means of ignition, or any explosive of
the 7th (Firework) Class, shall not be conveyed in the
same ship or boat with any explosive not of the class
and division to which it belongs, unless it be sufficiently
separated therefrom, to prevent any fire or explosion
which may take place in one such explosive being com-
municated to another, and any explosive exceeding 501bs.
shall not be conveyed in a ship or boat which is carrying
as merchandise any article liable to cause or com-
municate fire or explosion, such as charcoal, lucifer- ,
matches, articles for striking a light, or petroleum, as
defined by the Petroleum Act, 1871, or any Act repealing
or amending the same.
6. The master of a ship or boat carrying any gun-
powder or other explosive snail not permit such ship or
boat to remain in any lock, dock, or basin, or be moored,
except in a berth specially directed by a dockmastur,
whartinger, toll collector, or other authorised agent of
the Company, and shall not in any Case permit sucu ship
or bout to remain or be moored within 200 yards of any
steam eugiuge or furnace.
7. The master of a ship or boat carrying any gun-
powder or other explosive shall not permit the bailie to
be loaded or unloaded, except between sunrise and
sunset.

8. No ship or boat shall at any one time carry any
gunpowder or other explosive weighing in toe aggregate
more than 50.0001b5.
0. No ship or boat carrying any gunpowder or other
explosive shad enter or remain vu the Aevigation with-
out a red flag or metal vaue, painted red, two feet
square at the least, shown iu a conspicuous place al) ,ve
the deck; and there shall also be kept !mitring in a
conspicuous place on every seen snip or boat, between
subset and sunrise, a lamp showing coutiutFiusiy, ahead
and astern, a reit light, capable tit being distiuctiy seeii
on a clear night at a distance of 200 yat us.
10. Every snip or boat containing auy gunpowder or
other explosive, shall at all times have at mast one com-
petent man on bused and in charge of such ship or boat
aud ker cargo.
11. No fillip or boat carrying any gunpowder or other
explosive shall be towed or propelled utlierviise than by
animals or men. or shall any SUCLI ship or boat,
except for the purpose of passing, approach nearer to
any other ship or boat carrying guirpo.%der or other
explosive, than 2a yards.
12. Every ship or boat Atha, so long as there is any
gunpowder or other explosive on board. proceed with all
convenient speed and without any avoidable delay tu her
destination.

13. No ship or boat containing any gunpowder or
other explosive shall, whilst being loaded or unloaded,
be detained fur any longer time than would with all due
diligence be necessary.
14. While the loading, unloading, or conveyance of
explosive is going on, all persons engaged in such load-
ing, unloading, or conveyance, shall observe all due pre-
cautions for the prevention of accidents by fire or
explosion, and for preventing uuauthocured persons
having access to the explosive so being loaded, unloaded,
or conveyed, and shall abstain from any act Whatever
which tends to cause lire or explosion, and is not reason-
ably necessary for the purpose of the loading, unloading,
or conveyance of such explosive, or. of any other article
carried therewith, and for preventing any other person
from committing any. such act, and any such other per-
son, who after being warned commits any such act
shall be deemed to commit a breath of this regulation
In the case of a ship or boat conveying explosive ex-
ceeting 1001ba., due provision shall be made for prevent-
ing the introduction into such ship or boat, afire, Wolfer
matches, or any substance or article likely to cause
explosion or fire, or the introduction of any iron, steel,
or grit, so as to some into contact with such explosive;
' and in-any such ship or boat in which the explosive con-
veyed is lisble to be. dangerously affected by water, due
precaution shall be taken to exclude water from comiug
into contact with sycla explosive. 'This regulation shall not
prevent- the introduction of an az titictal light of such
construction, position, or character, or of safety matches
of such character a not to cause arty danger of hie or
explosion, and nothing in this Byelaw shall apply to any
explosive of the First Division of the 6th (Ammunition)
Criss, provided the Ruler specifiLd in the Order of the.
Secretary of State, No. 3 in reference to Ammunition
of that Class shall have been complied with in regard
to such exglosive, and provided all due precautions are
taken for the preventiou of accidents.

13. Any exp-lomive which for the time being is neither
authorised (by license or continuing certificate) to be
manufactured for general sale, nor authorised by License
to be imported for general sale, may be carried only in
such manner as shad be specially directed by the Coin
puny, provided that this Byelaw shall not extend to any
explosive which, under Section C), sub-section tl of the
Act, or under any Order in Council made in pursuance
of such Section, may lawfully be imported without any
license.
hi. These Byelaws and all the provisions of the said
Act shall be observed by all the agents and servants of
the said Company, and all penons using or engaged
upon the Navigation or any wharf connected therewith.
17. Every person committing any breach of, or in any
way infringing any of the above Byelaws, shall be lisb:e
to the following penalties, viz , pecuniary penalties for
each offence not exceeding £2O,
and 1:10 day d
which such offence continues,.and forfeiture of el t
in respect of which, or
excel utribeg
gunpowder or other explosive, e
•ive,
found in the ship or boat in respect of Awilliicehn,aslu ticeh
breach or infringement shall take place. s
may be recovered, enforced, and applied according to the
provisions of the said Act.lB.
Any vessel carrying gt the Company a reasonableunpowder or other explosive
will be required o p
charge for any special services rendered.

20. In these Byelaws the words " Gaup3Wiler,"
"Explosive,' " Master," " Wharf, ' " cud
" Boat," shall have the same respective meauinAs as are
assigned to them in "The Explosives Act, 1875."
And NOTICE IS HEREBY ll' winikt GIVEN
that any objections to these proposed IVO, tws.or any
part of them may be forwarded within one calendar
month from the date of this notice to the Assistant
Secretary (Railway Department) Board of Trade, White-
hall Gardens, London, S.W.
Dated this 17th day of June. 187(3.

Stourbridge.

By order,
JOHN HAR WARD,
Secretary.

CRICKET:
sT OURBRIDGE U. KIDDERMINSTER
TOWN MILLS. .

A MATCH•.
Will be played between the above-named Clubs, on the
STOURBAIDGE GROUND, at AMBLECOTE, `On SATURDAY,
JUNE 24th, 1876.
Wickets pitched at Two o'clock;
Admission Threepence (Members .
Refreshments by Mr. ChaileaTszkek.