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The Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, 1911
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ART. 48]

ILLUMINATING OILS.

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81. Definition of commercial feeding
stuff; what it shall not include.
82. What the term shall include.
83. Certified copy of statement to be
filed with State chemist before
sale of article.

84, Inspection fee to be paid and
license received before sale.

85. Penalty for violation of this sub-
title.
86. State chemist shall analyze sam-
ples of feeding stuffs. Publica-
tion of analysis.
87. Penalty for obstructing State chem-
ist.
88. State chemist to report violations
of this sub-title.

Illuminating Oils.

1904, art. 48, sec. 1. 1888, art. 48, sec. 1. 1870, ch. 266 1872, ch. 135.

1874, ch. 504, sec. 2.

1. All oils or fluids manufactured from petroleum or its products;
used for illuminating purposes in this State, which shall be manu-
factured or kept for sale therein, shall be required to stand a fire-test
of one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit before it shall burn, to be
ascertained by Tagliabue's coal oil tester, or some other instrument
constructed upon the same principle.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 48, sec. 2. 1874, ch. 504, sec. 3.

2. Every person manufacturing or selling illuminating oils or
fluids, manufactured from petroleum or its products, by the barrel,
shall be required to have stamped upon the head of the barrel the
name of the manufacturer thereof and his place of business, together
with the words, "warranted to stand a fire-test of one hundred and ten
degrees Fahrenheit before it shall burn."

Ibid. sec. 3. 1888, art. 48, sec. 3...1874, ch. 504, sec. 4.

3. Whoever manufactures for illuminating purposes, or sells in
quantities not less than a barrel, oils or fluids made from petroleum

or its products, which does not sustain the fire-test provided for in
section 1, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or impris-
oned in the jail or penitentiary not more than two years, in the discre-
tion of the court; whoever sells, in quantities less than a barrel for
illuminating purposes, oils or fluids made from petroleum or its prod-
ucts, which does not sustain the fire-test provided for in section 1,
shall forfeit said oil and be fined not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars; said fine to be collected as other fines are now collected;
one-half to go to the informer, the other to be paid into the treasury
of the State.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1888, art. 48, sec. 4. 1874, ch. 504, sec. 5.

4. Any purchaser of oils or fluids made of petroleum or its product
for illuminating purposes, bearing the stamp required in section 2

of this article, and which does not stand the fire-test required in

 

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