The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
Final Draft of Bill for Regu-
latiOn of Powder Plants is
Sent to Kenosha
LITTLE CHANGE IN PLAN
Several Kenosha County People are
Expected to Appear at the Hearing
to be Held in Madison on Thursday
Afternoon

It is expected that a score of people
from Kenosha county and city will go
to Madison on Thursday to appear be-
fore the committee on state affairs and
urge the passage Of the bill regulating
the manufacture of powder in the state.
The complete draft of the bill is now
ready and copies of it reached Kenosha
this morning. The complete bill fol
lows:
A Bill
To create sections 4393a-1 to 4393a
=, inclusive, of the statutes, relating
to the regulation Of the manufacture
and storage of gunpowder and black
blasting powder, and providing penal
! ty.
The people Of the state Of Wisconsin
represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section L. There are added to the
statutes seven new sections to read:
Section 4394a-1. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, or corporation to
manufacture gunpowder or black blast
ing powder in any quantity Whats0-
ever within the corporate limits of any
al u will HI b1,,nI
rods of any occupied dwelling house or
any church, school house, town hall, de-
pot, or other place in which people are
accustomed to assemble.
Section 4394a-2. Tt shall be unlaw-
full for any person, firm, or corporation
engaged in the manufacture of gunpow-
der or black blasting powder to store,
or permit to be stored on the land or
premises where gunpowder or black
blasting powder is manufactured, any
dynamite or explosive other than that
manufactured at such gunpowder or
black blasting powder manufacturing
plant or within one mile of any plant
where gunpowder or black blasting
powder is manufactured.
| Section 4394a-3. Tt shall be unlaw-
full for any person, firm, or corporation
engaged in the manufacture of gun
powder or black blasting powder, to
store or to keep in storage or permit to
be stored or kept in storage, at
any plant where \ gunpowder or
black blasting powder is manufact-
ured, more than one hundred twenty
five thousand pounds of gunpow-
der or black blasting powder in any
building or storage magazine at such
plant; and all magazines or buildings
where gunpowder or black blasting
powder is kept in storage at such plant
shall be located not less than one thou
sand feet from any building in which
the manufacture, or any part of the
manufacture Of gunpowder or black
blasting powder is carried on, and shall
| be effectually screened from all build
ings where the manufacture or any
part of the manufacture, of gunpowder
or black blasting powder is carried on,
and from any occupied dwelling house
or any church, school-house, town hall,
depot, or other place in which people
are accustomed to assemble, except ne
cessary openings for transportation IA
cilities, by natural barbados or bv an
artificial barricade consisting of a
mound OF properly reverted wall of
earth, of minimum thickness of not
less than three feet, of such height that
any straight line drawn from the ton
of any side wall of the BUILDING in
which the manufacture, or any part of
the manufacture of gunpowder or black
blasting powder is carried on, to any
part of the magazine or building to be
protected will pass through such inter
vening natural or artificial barricade:
and no magazine or building where gun
powder 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
gunpowder or black blasting powder is
stored or kept in storage, than FIVE
hundred feet; provided that wherever
a magazine or building in which qnn-
powder or black blasting powder is stor.
ed or kept in storage is effectualIy
screened from any other magazine or
building where gunpowder or black
blasting powder is stored or kept in
storage by natural or artificial BARR
~cade as hereinbefore described and of
such height that any straight line
drawn from any part Of the magazine
or building to any part of the other
magazine or building win pass THROUGH
such intervening natural or artificial
barricade, the distance that such mac
azlne or building are by this section re-
CURED to be located apart, may be re-
duced one-half, and not more than four
magazines or buildings where gunnow-
der or black blasting powder is stored
or kept in storage, shall be located or
maintained at any such gunpowder or
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