Explosives For the purposes of the said act explosives shall be divided into seven Classification classes, as follows: of. Class 1 gunpowder. nitrate mixture. nitro-compound. chlorate mixture. ammunition. And when an explosive falls within the description of more than one class, it shall be deemed to belong exclusively to the latest of the classes within the description of which it falls. Class 1.-Gunpowder Class. The term "gunpowder" means exclusively gunpowder ordinarily so called. Class 2.-Nitrate-Mixture Class. The term "nitrate-mixture" means any preparation, other than gunpowder ordinarily so called, formed by the mechanical mixture of a nitrate with any form of carbon or with any carbonaceous substance not possessed of explosive properties, whether sulphur be or be not added to such preparation, and whether such preparation be or be not mechanically mixed with any other non-explosive substance. The nitrate-mixture class comprises such explosives as— Pyrolithe, and any preparation coming within the above definition. Class 3.-Nitro-Compound Class. The term "nitro-compound" means any chemical compound possessed of explosive properties, or capable of combining with metals to form an explosive compound, which is produced by the chemical action of nitric acid (whether mixed or not with sulphuric acid), or of a nitrate mixed with sulphuric acid upon any carbonaceous substance, whether such compound is mechanically mixed with other substances or not. The nitro-compound class has two divisions. Division 1 comprises such explosives as— and any chemical compound or mechanically mixed preparation which consists either wholly or partly of nitro-glycerine or of some other liquid nitro-compound. Division 2 comprises such explosives as Gun-cotton, ordinarily so called, Gun-paper, Xyloidine, Gun-sawdust, Nitrated gun-cotton, Cotton gun-powder, Picrates, and any nitro-compound as before defined, which is not comprised in the first division. Class 4.-Chlorate-mixture Class. The term "chlorate-mixture" means any explosive containing a chlorate. The chlorate-mixture class has two divisions. Division 1 comprises such explosives as Horsley's blasting powder, Brain's blasting powder, and any chlorate preparation which consists partly of nitro-glycerine, or of some other liquid nitro-compound. Division 2 comprises such explosives as Horsley's original blasting Hockstadter's blasting charges, powder, Erhardt's powder, Reveley's powder, Reichen's blasting charges, Chlorated gun-cotton, and any chlorate-mixture as before defined, which is not comprised in the first division. Class 5.-Fulminate Class. The term "fulminate" means any chemical compound or mechanical mixture, whether included in the foregoing classes or not, which, from its great susceptibility to detonation, is suitable for employment in percussion caps or any other appliances for developing detonation, or which, from its extreme sensibility to explosion, and from its great instability (that is to say, readiness to undergo decomposition from very slight exciting causes), is especially dangerous. This class consists of two divisions. Division 1 comprises such compounds as the fulminates of silver and of mercury, and preparations of these substances, such as are used in percussion caps; and any preparation consisting of a mixture of a chlorate with phosphorus, or certain descriptions of phosphorus compounds, with or without the addition of carbonaceous matter; and any preparation consisting of a mixture of a chlorate with sulphur, or with a sulphuret, with or without carbonaceous matter. Division 2 comprises such substances as the chloride and the iodide of nitrogen, fulminating gold and silver, diazobenzol, and the nitrate of diazobenzol. Class 6.-Ammunition Class. The term "ammunition" means an explosive of any of the foregoing classes when enclosed in any case or contrivance, or otherwise adapted or prepared so as to form a cartridge or charge for small arms, cannon, or any other weapon, or for blasting, or to form any safety or other fuze for blasting or for shells, or to form any tube for firing explosives, or to form a percussion cap, a detonator, a fog signal, a shell, a torpedo, a war rocket, or other contrivance other than a firework. The term "percussion cap "does not include a detonator. The tern "detonator" means a capsule or case which is of such strength or construction, and contains an explosive of the fulminateexplosive class in such quantity, that the explosion of one capsule or case will communicate the explosion to other like capsules or cases. The term "safety-fuze" means a fuze for blasting which burns and does not explode, and which does not contain its own means of ignition, and which is of such strength and construction and contains an explosive in such quantity that the burning of such fuze will not communicate laterally with other like fuzes. The ammunition class has three divisions. Division 1 comprises exclusively Safety cartridges, Safety fuzes for blasting, Railway fog signals, Division 2 comprises any ammunition as before defined which does not contain its own means of ignition, and is not included in Division 1, such as Cartridges for small arms which are not safety cartridges, Explosives Classification of. Explosives- of. Cartridges and charges for cannon, shell, mines, blasting, or other which do not contain their own means of ignition. Division 3 comprises any ammunition as before defined which contains its own means of ignition, and is not included in Division 1, such asDetonators, Cartridges for small arms, which are not safety cartridges, Fuzes for blasting, which are not safety fuzes, Fuzes for shells, Tubes for firing explosives, which do contain their own means of ignition. By ammunition containing its own means of ignition is meant ammunition having an arrangement, whether attached to it or forming part of it, which is adapted to explode or fire the same by friction or percussion. Class 7.-Firework Class. The term "firework" comprises firework composition and manufactured fireworks. Division 1.-The term "firework composition means any chemical compound or mechanically mixed preparation of an explosive or inflammable nature which is used for the purpose of making manufactured fireworks, and is not included in the former classes of explosives, and also any coloured fire composition. Division 2.-The term "manufactured firework means any explosive of the foregoing classes, and any firework composition, when such explosive or composition is enclosed in any case or contrivance, or is otherwise manufactured so as to form a squib, cracker, serpent, rocket (other than a war rocket), maroon, star, lance, wheel, Chinese fire, Roman candle, or other article adapted for the production of pyrotechnic effects or pyrotechnic signals. Notice of causing Loss At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of November, 1875: Present, The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. Explosives- WHEREAS by section 63 of the "Explosives Act, 1875," it is provided that where in, about, or in connection with, any carriage, ship, or boat, either conveying an explosive, or on or from which an explosive is being loaded or unloaded, there occurs any accident by explosion or by fire, causing loss of life or personal injury, or if the amount of explosives conveyed, or being so loaded or unloaded exceeds in the case of gunpowder half a ton, and in the case of any other explosive the amount prescribed by Order in Council, any accident by explosion or by fire, the owner or master of such carriage, ship, or boat, and the owners of the explosive conveyed therein, or being loaded or unloaded therefrom, or one of them, shall forthwith send, or cause to be sent, to the Secretary of State, notice of such accident, and of the loss of life or personal injury, if any, occasioned thereby: Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above mentioned provision of the said act, her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order and prescribe, that in the case of any other explosive, whether Notice of Accidents with or without gunpowder, the amount, in the aggregate, shall be 200 lbs., Explosivesprovided that nothing in this order shall apply where no explosive is conveyed, loaded or unloaded, other than ammunition of the first division of the sixth class (as defined in the classification of explosives contained in an Order of Council made in pursuance of sect. 106 of the said act). causing loss of life, &c. At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of November, 1875: Present, The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS, in section 40, sub-section 9 of the "Explosives Act, 1875," Explosives-there are contained certain provisions requiring a license for, and otherwise Importation regulating the importation of explosives from any place out of the United Kingdom, and from such provisions there are exempted gunpowder, cartridges made with gunpowder, percussion caps, fireworks, and any explosive prescribed by Order in Council. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above mentioned sub-section, her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order and prescribe that every explosive of the first division of the sixth (ammunition) class (as defined in the classification of explosives contained in an Order in Council, made in pursuance of section 106 of the said act (a)) shall be exempted from the said provisions with respect to the importation of explosives. of. ORDERS IN COUNCIL relating to the Apprehension within her Majesty's At the Court at Windsor, the 17th day of May, 1876: And whereas it has been made to appear to her Majesty that due facilities are given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in the territories of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil: Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that from and after the publication hereof in the "London Gazette," seamen not being slaves, and not being British subjects, who, within her Majesty's dominions, desert from merchant ships belonging to (a) Supra, p. 25. APPDX. See the "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852" (15 Vict. c. 26). Foreign Deserters Brazil. Foreign Deserters Brazil. the empire of Brazil shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships: Provided always, that if any such deserter has committed any crime in her Majesty's dominions he may be detained until he has been tried by a competent court, and until his sentence (if any) has been fully carried into effect: And the secretaries of state for India in council, the home department, and the colonies, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. It has not been considered advisable to set more than one of the Orders in Council made in pursuance of the " 'Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," inasmuch as all such Orders are, mutatis mutandis, similar in terms to the Order of 17th of May, 1876, supra, p. 29. The following, however, is a list of all such Orders now in force, with the dates when they were respectively gazetted: Foreign De- ORDERS IN COUNCIL are in force under the Foreign Deserters Act, 1852 (15 Vict. c. 26), with the following Foreign Powers:— serters.-List of Orders. |