The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-26 00:00:00

YCKPLOBTVZB LOT, 1875.
In Pursuance of "The Explosives Act, IFM," and in
accordance with the directions of the Board cd Trade
In this behalf,
XTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, -that the
II LONDON AND E3OUTHWRSTERri ItiaL
WAY COMPANY intend to APPLY to the Beard
of Trade for the CONFIRMATION OF TIER BYE-
LAWS contained in the Schedule hereto, which Bye-
Laws have been framed by the said Compantoadz
the said Act, for Rigabang the Conveyance,
and Unloading of Gunpowder, and other Explosives, co;
the railways of the said Company, and for declaring
and regulating the other matters to which the said
Bye-Laws relate. And Notice is Hereby also Given,
that during one calendar month from the date of this
Notice, any local authority, corporation, or person
Interested may forward objections or suggestions with
respect both. said Bye-Laws to the Assistant
Wag Department), Board of Trade, We=
&W.

The SCHEDULE above referred to.
Bye-Laws for the regulation of the
Unloading, and Conveyanos of Explosives on Loading,
Rail-
way, 01 the London and SoWeetern Railway
Cornimny lleerebi-efter Se 4 the oreemmA sod an
the railways worked by tb.many, made under and
In pursuance of the Explosives Ad, 1875 (38 Viet.,
tha 17), and every other power and authority vested
in Comm.
Bye-4) LaTh wordsens
shall and
res exPremimis u
vely have
in
thev:andi foeludellowingthe
several meanings assigned to them or defined in "The
Explosive' Act,1875," and in the Order of Her Majesty
hi Council, dated sth of August, 1875, made in
pursuance of Section 106 of the said Act, nukes the
subject or context otherwise requires.
(b) The term "Explosive" moans and shall include
and apply to every article and substance mentioned
or defined to be an Explosive In and by the Ilrd Sectkt
of the said Act, or the said Order in Council, or any
Order in Council which may hereafter be made in
pursuanceof the said Act.
(c) Where by any of these Bye-Laws any time is
prescribed or allowed for any notice to the
Company, or for the doing of any by the Company,
such time shall be computed exclusively of enn_dlied
Christmse Day, Good Friday, and any statutory Bank
Holidey.
1. No carriage containing any Explosive which the
Company shall, by any notice or regulating for the
time in form, nady that they will not receive,
forward, or carry, shall be delivered to the Company
for conveyance, or be brought, sent, or forwarded to or
upon any Railway of the Company.
2. No person shall send to the Company any con-
signment of Exploldve, unless he has given to the
Company forty-eight hours previous nodes in writing
of his intention to send such consignment, and stating
the true name, description and quantity of the
Explosive proposed to be cone:eyed, and his own name
and address, and also the name and address of the
Proposed consignee, and has had an intimation in
writing from the Company that they are prepared to
receive such consignment.
8. Consignments of Explosive shall be sent to the
Company's forwarding Station, and shall be received
by their servants, only at such times during the hours
of daylt, that is to say, between sunrise and minuet,
as the pany may appoint' and every consignment
and package containing any Explosive proposed to be
conveyed .on any Railway of the Company shall
Immediately on the arrival thereof at the Company's
Station, Wharf, or Railway, be delivered to and
received by the Company's servants authorised to
receive dangerous goods, and by no other person
whatsoever.
4. No explosive shall be loaded or unloaded on the
Company's premised' by the consignor or consignee
thereof or their servants, except between sunrise and
sunset.
5. Safety Cartridges and Percussion Caps and Safety.
fuse (for lolorting) may be conveyed by Passenger
Train, provided all due precautions be taken by the
sender for the prevention of accident by fire or
explosion; also Railway Fog Signals for the Com-
pany's own use' but, except as aforesaid, no Explosive
whatever shall be conveyed by Passenger Train.
6. Gunpowder, or any Explosive made with Gun-
powder Included in the 2nd division of the 6th
(ammunition) Class of Explosives, as classified by the
said Order in Council of the sth of August, 1875, if
packed in metallic cylinders of a pattern approved by
the Company, and similar is construction and
security to those used by Government for the convey-
ance of small quantities of Gunpowder by Railway,
may be conveyed along with ordinary goo& traffic in
• carriage not containing any article or substance liable
to cause or communicate fire or explosion.
7. No Explosive of the sth (fulminate) Class, nor
any Explosive of the 6th (ammunition) Class contain-
ing it. own means of ignition, nor any Explosive of
the 7th (firework) Clime shall be conveyed in the same
carriage with any Explosive not of the clams and
division to which it belongs, unless it be sufficiently
e therefrom to prevent any fire or explosion
separated
y take place in one such Explosive being
communicated to another.
8. There shall not be oenveyed in the same carriage
with any Explosive, any Lucifer Matches, Fumes,
Pipe-lights, Adds, Notha, Paraffin, Petroleum to
which the Petroleum Act, 1101, or any Act repealing
or amending the same applies or say other volatile
spirit, or substance liable to give off an inflammable
vapour ate temperature below 00 degrees Fahrenheit,
or liable to spontaneous ignition, or to cause or com-
municate fire or explosion.
9. On each side of every carriage containing any
Explosive there shall be affixed in coonscharacters, by means of a securely attached or
otherwise, the word "Explosive," or the name of the
Explodes with the word "Explosive." except when
containing Gunpowder or Ammunition padced in
metallic cylinders as provided for in the gtli of these
Bye-laws ; and every carriage containing Explosive
shall be placed as far as practicable from the engine
attached to the train.
10. Not more than five carriages containing
Explosive shall be loaded or unloaded at or cm any
Railway Station or Wharf of the Company, or be
attached to or conveyed by any one train at say one
time • and the quantity of Explosive to be contained
or loaded in any one such carriage at any one time
shall not excised 10,000Iba in weight, provi always
that the quantity of Explosive to be contained or
loaded in any one such carriage shall not exceed
one ton in weight unlade the carriage shall be a
coveted van.
11. If the Explosive to be conveyed is not
effectuay protected from accident by fire from
without,, being placed in the interior of • carriage
which is enclosed OD all sides with wood or metal, than
the Exve shall be completely covered with painted
cloth tarpaulin, or other suitable material, so as to
effectually protect it against communication of fire.
12. There shall not be any iron or stool in the
Interior of the pardon of the carriage where the
Explosive is deposited, unites the same be covered
either permanently or temporarily with leather, wood,
cloth, sheet-lead, or other suitable material.
13. When the stowing of Explosive in any c
or the loading or nnloaing of any Explodes ii=.
taken by any person other than the Company, all due
precaution shell be taken ZoLunicb Penton' b 7 careful
stowing and loading and and otherwise, to
meant and secure such Explosiverom being be=
Into contact with or endangered by any other
or substance liable to cause tire or explosion.
14. In loading or unloading any Explosive, the
casks and packages containing the same shall, as far as
practicable, be paused from hand to hand, and not
rolled upon the ground, and in no cam shall any such
casks or packages be rolled, unless hides, cloths, or
sheets have been previously laM down on Um platform
or ground over which
sthehaligre to be rolled. Casks
or containing E ve shall not be thrown
or engesdown, but be carefully deposited and
15. No pereon whuitoealgoyed in loading,
in
In Mo t
SSW caniageorma any ErOodee instlnS
ms 1, 34, or sof the daedfication of
Explosives as ed by the said Order in Council
dated August sth, 1875, shall wear bootsor shoes with
steel or iron nails, deal or iron heels, or tips of any
kind, or have about his person any ludfer match,
explosive, or means of striking a light ; and a person.
employed in the loading, 'towing, or unloadlng of any
ntsAct.e.a. shall, while such loading, stowing, Or
are going on, abstain from smoking.
unl(.7"M the loading, unloading, or conveyance of
Explosive is going on, all persona engaged in such
lmding unlos, or conveyance shall observe all clue
precautions for the prevention of accidents by fire or
explosion, and for preventing unauthorised persona
having access to Um Explodes so being loaded,
sidcaSed, or conveyed, and &all abstain from any act
whatever which tends to came fire or explosion, and is
not reasonably nemessry for the purpose of loading,
sakediw,.tor 006(nio %Taws of such Explosive, or of any
other -.15 therewith, and for preventing=
other pennon from committing any each ; and-
other pence* who after being warned, commits any
such act shall be to oommit • breach of these
By•-Leiws.
17. The loading or unloading of Explosive into or
out of ass carriage, when once Dupla, shall be pro-
-Medal with with all due diligence until the same Is
completed.
18. Paokages containing any Explosive most be
removed by the consignee from the Station, where.
OT Depot of the Company to which they have been
conveyed, as soon as practicable and with all due
diligence after arrival ; and if not removed within 12
hours slier arrival the packages and contents may be
forthwith sold by the Company, or otherwise disposed
of as they think fit ,• and snob paeluXaowshall in the
meantime, and until such removal, or di=thne,
completely covered over with painted
or other suitable material-
-19. The Company may refuse to receive, forward,
u, or mallow to be bronyht, or carrie
which
therti;Opli
Itheir
:pookeniaV carrlage
toor mat, cisTo= any article or
or mot in contravention of the mid Act, or
of times Bye-laws, or not in accordance therewith,
lea hi me= carriage age which the
to be so or M tg
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