The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-22

SENATE BILL No. go.
AN ACT concerning state oil inspection,
amending sections 8, and of chapter
2i5 of the Session Laws of 1917, repeal
ing the original sections amended;
and repeating secNon of chapter 24J OF
the Session Laws of 1917.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
Section 1. That section of chapter 245
OF the Session Laws Of 1911 be amended to
inspector shall receive an annual salary of
three thousand dollars and all necessary
travelling expenses. together with office ex-
penses actual and necessary in the per-
Torrance of his duties state oil in
spector. The deputy inspectors shall each
receive an annual salary of not to exceed
eighteen hundred dollars and the neces-
sary travelling expenses in performing the
duties of deputy oil inspectors. The state
oil inspector is hereby authorized to en-
ploy chief clerk at an annual salary of
fifteen hundred dollars. All salaries pro-
expenses of the office. shall be paid
monthly.
Sec. , That section G of chapter 245 of
the Session Laws of 1917 be amended to
read follows: Section G. In testing by
said inspector or his deputies of all kero-
sene oils for ILLUMINATING purposes they
shall reject all such oils as will emit com
bust1Ye Tapor at a temperature of less than
known as the Foster automatic cup shall
be used in the making of these tests, and
the oil shall not be heated faster than
for Illuminating purposes shall not show a
lower flash point than the 40 degrees
tanrenne1t above mentioned. All gasoline
that is used for heating, illuminating and
power purposes shall be tested and
graded, and all gasoline used for heating.
Illuminating and power purposes shall be
subjected to the following test: Said
gasoline shall be water white, liquid
hydrocarbon obtained by straight distilia-
ton, absorption, compression, or by the
cracking process, or by the blending of two
or more thereof. shall be free from acid,
end point or boiling temperature not ex-
ceeding 450 degrees, Fahrenheit at 9s
percent off and shall distil over at least
20 percent at go degrees Fahrenheit and
80 percent at go degrees Fahrenheit when
tested by Il distillation apparatus similar
Tagliabue Manufacturing Company and
adopted by the American Society for Test
the manner following: The flask with the
condenser shall be filled with no cubic
centimeters of the gasoline to be tested
care being taken that the distillation pro-
coed at the rate of three to four cubic
the distilled off at f the follow S
ing temperatures shall be recorded: ID
percent percent at go degrees Eahrenheit; 90
percent at $50 degrees Fahrenheit. All
gasoline shall be weighed by standard
hydrometer and gravity recorded, using
Sec. 5. That section of chapter oi5 of
the Session Laws of 1917 be amended to
read as follows: Section 9. Every
finer. manufacturer, vendor or dealer in any
of the above mentioned oils or fluids sub
shall
port in full and detail before the 10th day
of every month at the office of the state
oil inspector on blanks furnished by the
oil inspection department of any and all
inspections made by the oil inspection de-
partment for him or them during the pre-
ceding month. and every refiner. manufac
turer. vendor or dealer who shall neglect
or fail to comply with any of the provisions
Of this act shall be deemed guilty of
shall be fined not less than fifty dollars
moi, more than five hundred dollars for
each and every offense. The state oil in
spector shall on or before the 25th day of
December of each year make and deliver
to the governor of the state a consolidated
report Of the inspections made by himself
and his deputies during the preceding cal
See T., That original sections 5, g, 8 and
. of chapter 245 of the session Laws of 1917
be and the same hereby repealed.
Sec. !. This act shall take effect and
passage and publication in the official
state paper.
hereby certify that the above Bill orig
February 13. 1919.
| March Is, 1919. Conference report adopted
CHAS. S. HUFFMAN.
President of the Senate.
EMMETT D. GEORGE.
Secretary of the Senate.
| Passed the House March IL 1919
March II. 1919. Conference report adopted.
W. P. LAMBERTSON.
Speaker of the House.
CLARENCE W. MILLER.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Approved March Is. 1919.
| HENRY j. ALLEN Governor
State of Kansas
Office of Secretary of State.
/ /. L. J. PETTIJOHN. Secretary Of State
/ of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify
! that the above and foregoing is a correct
/ copy. of the original enrolled bin now on
| file in invs office.
| IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. l have
| hereunto subscribed my name
! tSedL1 and affixed my official SEAL
this 18th day of March. 1913
| L. ]. PETTIJOHN.
Secretary of State.
Published in The Topeka State Journal
| March 90, 1912