Petroleum. If a flash occurs at any temperature between seventy-six degrees and two hundred degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature at which it occurs. subject to correction for atmospheric pressure, is the flashing point of the sample. In repeating a test a fresh sample of oil must always be used, the tested sample being thrown away, and the cup must be wiped dry from any adhering oil, and cooled, as already described, before receiving the fresh sample. 5. Correction for Atmospheric Pressure.-As the flashing point of an oil is influenced by changes in atmospheric pressure to an average extent of sixteen degrees Fahrenheit for every inch of the barometer, a correction of the observed flashing point may become necessary. The height of the barometer must, therefore, be determined at the time of making the test for the flashing point. The true height of the barometer for the purpose of the test shall be considered to be the height of the column of mercury measured at thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit, which is supported by the air pressure at the time of the experiment; that is, the actual height of the barometer at the time of observation duly corrected for any error of the instrument and for its temperature if necessary. For the purpose of applying the correction to the flashing point of the oil obtained by the test, a table is appended to this schedule, giving the flashing points of oils ranging from sixty-five degrees to eighty degrees Fahrenheit under pressure ranging from twenty-seven to thirty-one inches of mercury. [For Table see next page.] Petroleum. The table is used in the following manner :- Example.-An oil has given a flashing point of seventy-one degrees, the barometer being at 28'6; take the nearest number to seventy-one 27 Table for Correction of Flashing Points indicated by the Test for Variations in Barometric Pressure on 27.2 274 27.6 27.8 28 28.2 28 4 28 6 28.8 29 29 2 29'4 29.6 29.8 30 30 2 30.4 30.6 30.8 31 Flashing Point in Degrees Fahrenheit. 60.2 60.5 60.8 61.2 61.5 61.8 62.1 62.4 62.8 63.1 63.4 63.7 64 64.4 64.7 65 65.3 65.6 66 66.3 66.6 65 65.4 65.7 66 66.3 66.6 67 67.3 67.6 66 66.4 66.7 67 67.3 67.6 68 68.3 68.6 Petroleum. Preamble. Short title. Date of operation. Ordinance to be construed as one with Ordinance No. 6 of 1887. Amendment of section 19 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1887 as to the quantity to be conveyed. As to the conveyance in a closed vessel or cart. No. 1 of 1893. An Ordinance to amend "The Petroleum Ordinance, 1887." WHEREAS is Petroleum Ordinance, 1887:" Be it therefore HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1887, enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1 This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Petroleum Amendment Ordinance, 1893," and shall come into force on the thirtyfirst day of December, 1893. ་་ ་་ 2 "The Petroleum Ordinance, 1887," is hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance," and the principal Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Petroleum Ordinances. 1887 and 1893," and this Ordinance shall be construed as one with the principal Ordinance; and the expression" this Ordinance" in the principal Ordinance, and any expression referring to the principal Ordinance which occurs in any Ordinance or other document, shall be construed to mean the principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordi nance. 3 (1) To sub-section (a) of section 19 of the principal Ordinance the following words shall be added, namely, "except when conveyed in a cart specially constructed for the purpose, which has been licensed by writing under the hand of the local authority for the conveyance of petroleum." (2) In sub-section (b) of the same section, after the word "vessel " and before the words "so constructed" the words "or cart "shall be inserted. 7th November, 1893. Municipal Councils. No. 7 of 1887. An Ordinance relating to Municipal Councils. (As amended by No. 26 of 1890, No. 1 of 1896, No. 11 of 1898, and No. 12 of 1898.) (See No. 33 of 1884, No. 15 of 1887. No. 9 of 1892, No. 23 of 1892, and No. 9 of 1893.) Street, bridge, owner, person, annual value, municipal council, late municipal council, chairman, assistant chairman, magistrate, municipal magistrate, government' agent, building, nuisance, municipal fund, municipal office, standing committee, residence, budget, public and private markets, populous localities. Municipal Constitution. 4 Colombo, Kandy, and Galle to continue municipalities. Power reserved to the Governor in Executive Council to create other towns into municipalities. 5 Governor in Executive Council may declare limits and divisions of municipalities, and such limits or divisions may alter or vary. Existing limits and divisions of Colombo, Kandy, and Galle to continue in force. 6 Governor in Executive Council may alter the number or limits of the divisions of any municipality. 7 Municipal councils. Councillors to be elected or nominated. Chairman to be ex-officio councillor. Municipal council to be a corporation. 8 Chairman and councillors of late municipal councils to continue in office under this Ordinance until appointment of successors. 9 Qualification for election as councillor. 10 One-half at least of the councillors to be elected. Non-elected councillors to be nominated by Governor. 11 Qualification of voters. A person owning several houses in one or more divisions, of the required annual value, to have a vote in respect of every such house. 12 Joint stock companies may vote. 13 Chairman of municipality or government agent to prepare two separate lists for each division of persons entitled to be elected and to vote. Municipal Councils. Section. 14 Lists to be published in the Government Gazette, and notice of publication to be given in two or more of the local newspapers. 15 Procedure in case of qualified person's name being omitted from lists. 16 Procedure to have an unqualified person's name erased from list. 17 Chairman or government agent to comply with order of Supreme Court to insert or erase names. 18 19 No appeal from order of judge. Revised lists when certified by chairman or government agent to be final and conclusive evidence of qualification until such lists are in due course again revised or superseded as provided. 20 An election to be held for each division of the municipality. 21 Procedure at elections. 22 President of election meetings to decide questions as to identity or right of any person claiming to vote or to be elected. 23 President to have a casting vote at elections. 24 Votes of at least twenty duly qualified voters necessary for the election of a councillor. 25 One councillor to be elected for each division. 26 Effect of adding one division to another. elected for such enlarged division New councillor to be 27 Councillor elected for more divisions than one to choose a division for which he shall act. In default, chairman to choose. 28 Councillor to be held elected for division so chosen. 29 Penalty for accepting or obtaining a reward for voting or forbearing to vote. 30 Penalty for knowingly voting without the necessary qualifications. 31 Disqualification of councillors. 32 Disqualified councillor to vacate office. 33 Councillors elected without, or since election ceasing to possess, the necessary qualifications, shall have their names erased from the lists and shall vacate their office. Appeal to the Supreme Court against order of erasure of names. 34 Penalty for acting as councillor without being qualified or while disqualified. 35 Penalty for a councillor being concerned or interested in contracts with municipal council. 36 Councillor may resign. 37 Election of councillor in place of one dying, being disqualified. resigning, or ceasing to hold office 38 Vacancy to be notified to the Governor. 39 Elected councillors to hold office for three years. Outgoing councillor may be re-elected. 40 Successive elections to be held once in three years, in the month of December. 40A Period of office of nominated councillors. New lists to be prepared in September every third year. 42 Procedure to have names inserted or erased. |