Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.
Approved May 20, 1911. Copy Law.
rPnhliShe6 June 8. 1911.

AN ACT to create sections 4393a-1 to
4393a-7, inclusive, of the statutes,
relating to the regulation or the
manufacture and storage of gunpoW3
der and black blasting powder, ana
providing penalty. -..
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows
Section 1. There are added to the
Section 4393a-1. 1t shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, or corporation to
manufacture gunpowder or black blast
Ing powder in any quantity Wenatsoe ote1r
within the corporate limits of any city
or village or within one hundred rods
of any occupied dwelling house or any
church schoolhouse, town hall, depot,
or other place in which people are &C
Section 4393a-2. 1t shall be unlaw-
full for any person, firm e or corp pc e,n
powder or black blasting powder to
Store, or permit to. be stored on the
black blasting powder is manufactured,
any dynamite or explosive other than
that manufactured at such gunpoWder
or black blasting powder man "a anv
plant where gunpowder or black blast
Ing powder is manufactured.
seeton 4Sssas er1, shall nr pe unlaw
engaged in the manufacture OF gun
powder or black blasting powder, 70
store or to keep in storage or per1nlt
plant where gunpowder or black blast
Ing powder is manufactured. more than
one hundred twenty-five thousand
pounds of gunpowder or black blast
Ing powder in any building or storage
magazine at such plant; and all maya
zines or buildings where gunpoWder
or black blasting powder is Kept IN
storage at such plant shall be located
not less than one thousand feet from
any building in which the manufacture,
or any part of the manufacture OF gun
powder or black blasting powder is
carried on, and shall be effectually
screened from all buildings where the
facture, Of gunpowder or black blasting
powder is carried on, and from any oc-
cupied dwelling house or any church,
schoolhouse, town hail. depot, or other
to assemble, except necessary openings
for transportation facilities, by natural
barrica 5es or by an artificial barrlcade
consis. ing of a mound or properly re-
vetted wall Of earth, of minimum
thickness of not less than three feet,
Of such height that any straight ilne
drawn from the top of any side wall or
the building in which the manufacture,
or any part of the manufacture, OF gun
powder or black blasting. powder is
carried on, to any part of the maya,
zine or building to be protected Will
pass through such intervening natural
or artificial barricade; and no maya
zine or building where gunp0Wder or
black blasting powder is stored or kept
IN storage at any such manufacturing
plant, shall be nearer to any other
magazine or building where gunpoW,
der or black blasting powder is stored
or kept in storage, than five hundred
feet provided that whenever maya
or black blasting powder is stored or
kept in storage, is effectually screened
from any other magazlne or puliqtiing
where gunpoWder or bla &C ola o<d hg
& natural or artificial barricade as
herelnbefore described and of such
height that any straight line drawn
from any part Of the magazine or
building to any part of the other mag
azine or building will pass through
such intervening natural or artlhclal
barricade, the distance that such mag
azine or building are by this action re-
Quired to be located apart, may be. re-
duced one-half, and not more than four
magazines or buildings where gunpow-
der or black blasting powder is stored
or kept in storage shall be located or
maintained at any such gunroWder or
piant, or 't on tn the land or premises Where
the same is situated.
Section 4393a-4. No person, firm, or
corporation. shall store gunpowder or
black blasting powder at any gunpow-
der or black blasting powder manu-
featuring plant, or on the land or
premises where such plant IS located
within one-quarter of mile of any
occupied dwelling house, or any church,
schoolhouse, town hall, depot, or other
place where people are accustomed to
Section 4393a-5. Every person, firm,
or corporation engaged in the manu-
facture of gunpowder or black blasting
powder, shall on the first day Of each
month make a written report in dupl1-
cate, showing the amount Of gunpow-
der and black blasting powder on hand
at the time of making such report, and
also the greatest quantity of such eX-
plosives on hand at any time during
the previous month which report shall
be verified by the oath of the owner or
superintendent of such manufacturing
plant, and shall file one copy thereof
with the county clerk of the county
copy. with the clerk Of the town in
Section 48Ssa!6 l. The chairman
of the town board of supervisors shall
be authorized to visit and inspect any
gunpowder or black blasting powder
manufacturing plant in his town once
specting all magazines or buildings
where gunpowder or black blasting
powder is stored or kept in storage to
determine whether the provisions Of
plosives that may be lawfully stored,
or kept In storage, the distance that
such magazine or magazines shall be
and from each other as Well as the
provision relating to barricading, are
being complied with.
2. 1t shall be the duty of every per-
son, firm, or corporation, engaged in
the manufacture Of gunpowder or black
DIdStlnS powder, 10 permit the cndlf-
man of the town board OF supervisors
to visit and inspect all magazines and
buildings where such explosives are
stored or kept in storage, and when
ever it shall appear from such inspec-
ton, or otherwise, that the provisions
of this act are not being complied with,
or upon refusal to allow the chairman
of such town board OF supervisors to
make the inspection herein provided, it
shall be the duty of said chairman to
report such violation or refusal to the
district attorney of the county wherein
such manufacturing plant is located.
SECTION 4S93a-77. Every. person
whether as principal or agent, and any
official superintendent. or manager Of
any corporation violating any of the
provisions Of this act. shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine Of
not less than two hundred nor more
than one thousand dollars, or by i'm
prisOnment In the county jail for not
less than two nor more than six
months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pas
sage and publication.
Approved June 2, 1911. Copy Law.