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11. The maximum quantity to be kept in the tank of the locomotive shall be 10 gallons.

IL-CONDITIONS FOR QUANTITIES OVER 60 GALLONS.

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1. Naphtha and Benzine shall be stored only in a fire-proof room or store. purpose of these conditions the term room or store shall mean any room or rooms at- tached to the licensed store, whether Naphtha or Benzine be stored therein or not.

2. Such room or store shall be sufficiently well lighted, and ventilated both at top and bottom, and provided with doors and shutters of such material as shall be approved by the Director of l'ublic Works so constructed as to be at all times easily and quickly closed.

3. No part of any such room or store shall be situated within a distance of 50 yards from any dwelling-house (whether such dwelling-house is or is not in the licensee's occupa- tion) or from any anchorage.

4. Naphtha and Benzine shall be stored in hermetically sealed drums, furnished with screw-top outlets, each containing not more than ten gallons, or in hermetically sealed tins furnished with screw-top outlets, each containing not more than four gallons. The drum or tins shall be so filled as to leave an air space equal to at least 1/20th the capacity of each drum or tin, so as to allow room for expansion of the liquid consequent upon changes of tempera- Each drum or tin shall bear the words "NAPHTHA DÂNGERÕUS HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE" legibly and indelibly stamped or marked thereon, or on a metallic or enamelled label attached thereto, and such drum or tin shall bear also a label on which shall be written in English and Chin se In case of accident smother fire with sand, earth or cloth '

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5. No damaged drum or tin shall be received into such room or store.

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6. No fire; matches, or artificial lights, shall be used or allowed within such room or store.

7. Such room or store shall be kept locked except when it is necessary to open the same for the purpose of storing or withdrawing Naphtha.

8. Two receptacles each containing not less than 100 pounds of sand shall be kept ready for use in such room or store in case of accident.

9. No other goods shall be kept in the same room or with Naphtha and Benzine.

10. The Conditions of Licence to store Naphtha and Benzine made by the Governor-in- Council on the Nineteenth day of May, 1908, and which are published in the Gazette of the Twenty-second day of May, 1908, are hereby revoked.

NOTE--Application for the renewal of a licence must be sent in one month before the expiration of the

licence, to enable the Inspector of Dangerous Goods to make his report on the state of the premises.

No. 263.

Order made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 4 of the New Territories Lind Ordinance, 1905, (Ordinance No. 3 of 1905), this 26th day of April, 1909.

The Order-in-Council dated the 15th day of March, 1906, defining the Districts into which the New Territories shall be divided for the purpose of the above-mentioned Ordinance, is hereby rescinded and the following Order substituted:—

It is hereby ordered that there shall be established two District Land Offices for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of the New Territories Land Ordinance, 1905, and it is further ordered that for the purposes of the said Ordinance the New Territories shall be divided into two districts, viz.:-

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