1324 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

be manufactured 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.'

1888, art. 48, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 504, see. 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. 1874, ch. 564, 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 misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be find not more than
one thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the jail or penitentiary
not more than two years, in the discretion of the court; whoever
sells, in quantities less than a barrel for illuminating purposes,
oils or fluids made from petroleum or its products, 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 col-
lected; one-half to go to the informer, the other to be paid
into the treasury of the State.

Ibid. sec. 3. 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 section 1, may recover from the seller in an
action of debt an amount equal to double the purchase money
of said oil.

Ibid sec 5. 1874, ch. 504, sec 6.

5. Any accident, by reason of explosion, occurring with any
oil or fluid manufactured from petroleum or its products, shall
subject the seller thereof to prosecution for a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdic-