42 & 43 Vict., Cap. 47. in slowly until the level of the liquid just reaches the point of the gauge which is fixed in the cup. In warm weather the temperature of the room in which the samples to be tested have been kept should be observed in the first instance, and if it exceeds 65° the samples to be tested should be cooled down (to about 60°) by immersing the bottles containing them in cold water, or by any other convenient method. The lid of the cup, with the slide closed, is then put on, and the cup is placed into the bath or heating vessel. The thermometer in the lid of the cup has been adjusted so as to have its bulb just immersed in the liquid, and its position is not under any circumstances to be altered. When the cup has been placed in the proper position, the scale of the thermometer faces the operator. 5. The test lamp is then placed in position upon the lid of the cup, the lead line or pendulum, which has been fixed in a convenient position in front of the operator, is set in motion, and the rise of the thermometer in the petroleum cup is watched. When the temperature has reached about 66° the operation of testing is to be commenced, the test-flame being applied once for every rise of one degree, in the following manner : The slide is slowly drawn open while the pendulum performs three oscillations, and is closed during the fourth oscillation. NOTE. If it is desired to employ the test apparatus to determine the flashing points of oil of very low volatility, the mode of proceeding is to be modified as follows: The air-chamber which surrounds the cup is filled with cold water, to a depth of 1 inches, and the heating vessel or water bath is filled as usual, but also with cold water. The lamp is then placed under the apparatus and kept there during the entire operation. If a very heavy oil is being dealt with, the operation may be commenced with water previously heated to 120°, instead of with cold water. [Second schedule repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1894-] 43 & 44 Vict. Cap 181 GASLIGHT AND COKE AND OTHER GAS COMPANIES ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1880. 43 & 44 Vict., Cap. 181. An Act to make further C. CC. Whereas by the Gaslight and Coke Company Act, 39 & 40 Vict 1876, the Commercial Gas Act, 1875, and the South C. CCXXV. Metropolitan Gaslight and Coke Company's Act, 1876, 38 & 39 Vict further provisions were made for regulating the supply of gas within the limits within which the said companies were respectively authorised to supply gas, and the said companies were respectively made liable in certain cases to the forfeitures fixed by the said Acts respectively: And whereas it is expedient to amend the provisions of the said Acts respectively with respect to the testing of the gas supplied by the said companies respectively, and with respect to such forfeitures as aforesaid, and in other respects as by this Act provided: And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present. Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows; (that is to say,) 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxix. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Gas- Short title. light and Coke and other Gas Companies Acts Amendment Act, 1880. 2. In this Act The expression "the city" means the city of London Interpretation of expressions. The expression the corporation" means the mayor, The expression" the Metropolitan Board" means the The expression "the special Act," in relation to any The expression "the district," in relation to any of the companies to which this Act applies, means the area within the limits of this Act in which such company is for the time being authorised to supply gas: The expression "testing place" shall mean a testing place prescribed and certified by the gas referees: The expression "the controlling authority," in relation to any place in the city, means the corpora tion, and in relation to any other place within the limits of this Act means the Metropolitan Board. (a) 3. This Act shall not be in force in any place beyond the limits of the metropolis as such limits are defined by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855. 4. This Act shall extend and apply to the companies following; (that is to say,) The Gaslight and Coke Company; The Commercial Gas Company; and 99 66 and throughout the districts of the said companies and for the purposes of its application throughout any one of such districts the expression "the Company shall be construed to mean such one of the said companies as is for the time being authorised to supply gas in such district, and the expression " the gas referees,' the chief gas examiner," and gas examiner" shall respectively have the meanings assigned to the same expressions in the special Act of such company, and the special Act of such company, as amended by this Act, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act. 5. The gas referees shall from time to time, after giving notice to the controlling authority, visit the testing (a) Now London County Council. See Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40. (8.), p. 362. Cap. 181. places and examine the apparatus for the purpose of 43 & 44 Vict., ascertaining that it is kept in good and proper repair and working order. visit testing times of pressure of gas. 6. The gas referees shall from time to time prescribe places. and certify the mode to be adopted for testing and re- Mode and cording the pressure at which gas is supplied by the Company, and a gas examiner shall in the mode so prescribed test the pressure at which gas is supplied at such hour and in such street or part of a street as the controlling authority may from time to time by an order in writing appoint, and within three days of the receipt of such order. 7. A gas examiner shall at each testing place make daily such number of tests as the gas referees may pre- ing for scribe for ascertaining whether during the whole of each illuminating day the illuminating power and purity of the gas supplied purity. at such testing place by the Company are such as are respectively prescribed under the special Act. Provided that the tests for illuminating power shall be taken at intervals of not less than one hour. And in the event of the gas being ascertained to be defective in any such particular, such examiner shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Company. 8. The average of all the testings at any testing place on each day of the illuminating power of the gas supplied by the Company, at such testing place shall be deemed to represent the illuminating power of such gas on that day at such testing place. Daily test power and What shall be deemed illuminating power for each day. Average of purity. 9. The average of all the testings at any testing place on any day of the purity of the gas supplied by the Com- testings of pany at such testing place shall be deemed to represent the purity of such gas on that day at such testing place. Provided always, that if on any one day the gas supplied by the Company at such testing place is of less purity than it ought to be under the special Act, the average of all the testings made at such testing place on that day and on the preceding and on the following day shall be deemed to represent the purity of such gas on such one day at such testing place. may be retestings. presented at 10. The Company may, if they think fit, on each Company occasion of the testing at any testing place of the illuminating power, purity, and pressure of the gas supplied by them, be represented by some officer, but such officer shall not interfere in the testing, and the controlling authority shall state at what times it is proposed to make such testings on any particular day upon receiving a re 43 & 44 Vict., Cap. 181. Daily reports and access to books. Appeal to chief gas examiner. Quarterly report of chief gas examiner. Forfeiture for defect of power. quest in writing from the Company in the forenoon of the previous day. 11. Each gas examiner shall on each day make and deliver a report of the result of the testings of the gas supplied by the Company conducted by him on the immediately preceding day to the controlling authority, to the gas referees, to the chief gas examiner, and to the Company, and the books kept by a gas examiner for recording the results of the testing of such gas by him shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Company without payment. 12. If the Company think themselves aggrieved by any report of a gas examiner they may, within seven days after the day on which that report is delivered to the Company, appeal to the chief gas examiner, whose decision after hearing the parties shall be final and conclusive, and the chief gas examiner shall forthwith report every such decision to the controlling authority and to the Company. If in any case the Company do not appeal as aforesaid the report of the gas examiner shall be final and conclusive. 13. Within one week after the end of each quarter of a year the chief gas examiner shall make a report to the controlling authority and to the Company on the results of the daily testings made in that quarter, and shall state therein with respect to gas supplied by the Company in that quarter (1.) The illuminating power on each day at each testing place. (2.) The amount of impurity in each form on each day at each testing place. (3.) The results of each testing of pressure. 14. If on any day the gas supplied by the Company at any testing place is of less illuminating power than it ought to be under the special Act, the Company shall be liable to the following forfeitures: For the first half of a candle of defective power, forty shillings; and For the first and every subsequent candle of defective power, a sum not less than twenty-five pounds and not exceeding one hundred pounds, having regard to the relative quantities of gas manufactured by the respective companies. Provided always, that the controlling authority of any testing place having recovered one forfeiture in respect of |