(The First Schedule.-Testing.)

flashing point at or above 200° or is oil to which a notification of the Local Government exempting it from the operation of the Act will be applicable in the event of the flashing point being found to be at or above 120°, the test shall be continued as follows:-The oil-cup is to be removed from the water-bath, and the temperature of the water in the water-bath is to be reduced to 95° Fahrenheit by pouring cold water into the funnel (the hot water escaping by the overflow-pipe) The air-chamber is then to be filled to a depth of 14 inches with water at a temperature of about 95° Fahrenheit, the oil-cup is to be replaced in the water-bath and the spirit-lamp attached to the water-bath is to be lighted and placed underneath. The test-flame is then to be again applied from 96° Fahrenheit, at every degree rise of temperature as indicated by the thermometer in the oil-cup until a flash takes place or until a temperature of 200° Fahrenheit or 120° Fahrenheit, as the case may be, has been reached. If during this operation the test-flame appears to diminish in size, the lamp is to be replenished in the manner prescribed at 2 without interrupting the test.

If a flash occurs at any temperature between 76° and 200° 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 16° 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 32° 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 65° to 80° Fahrenheit, under pressure ranging from 27 to 31 inches of mercury.

The table is used in the following manner:

Example.-An oil has given a flashing point of 71°, the barometer being at 28-6 inches; take the nearest number to 71° in the vertical column headed 28.6. This number is 70-8. Substitute for this the number in the same horizontal line in the column headed 30 (the normal height of the barometer). The substituted number, that is, the true flashing point of the oil, is 73°.

[6. Application of the test to viscous fluids or preparations, such as solutions of india-rubber in mineral naphtha, or thick paint made with that material.

About a teaspoonful of the substance to be tested is placed in the cup, and the cover fitted with a thermometer is put on.

The cup thus prepared for the test is then cooled down until the thermometer indicates a temperature of 50° Fahrenheit. This may be accomplished either by placing the prepared cup in a refrigerator or by immersing it up to its projecting collar in water which is maintained at a sufficiently low temperature until the result specified has been obtained.

The prepared cup thus cooled is then transferred to the water-bath, the temperature of which has previously been raised to 76° Fahrenheit. (The scale of the thermometer in the water-bath should range from 60° to 180° Fahrenheit).

1 This paragraph was added by Notification No. 928 (J) dated the 28th June, 1900, see Gazette of India, 1900, Pt. 1, p. 403.

(The First Schedule.- Testing.)

The test is then applied as described in section 4 of this part. If no flash has taken place when the temperature in the cup has reached 75°, the test need not be continued.

The temperature at which the flash occurs is the observed flashing point of the substance and subject to correction of atmospheric pressure as prescribed in the Act, is the true flashing point.]

IV.-Directions for determining the flashing point of petroleum which is not fluid at ordinary temperatures.

1. Nature of the test-apparatus.-The instrument employed is the Abel-Pensky petroleum testing appartus, fitted with an additional thermometer to indicate the temperature of the oil in close proximity to the walls of the cup. This thermometer has a cylindrical bulb, inch in length and inch in diameter. It is scaled from 45° to 165° Fahrenheit, ten degrees on the scale occupying inch. The thermometer is held vertically in a socket attached to the cover of the oil-cup in such a position that the bulb is inch from the side of the cup.

(The thermometer can be removed and the orifice which is provided for it closed by means of an india-rubber plug, if the apparatus is required for testing petroleum in the ordinary way.) 2. Directions for preparing the sample for testing.-About ten fluid ounces of the oil are placed in a pint-flask, the mouth of which is then closed with an india-rubber stopper and the sample is liquefied by placing the flask in a water-bath, the temperature of which is only raised sufficiently high to liquefy the oil.

3. Directions for preparing and using the test-apparatus.-The water-bath and test-lamp are to be prepared in the manner prescribed in Part III of this Schedule. The oil-cup is to be filled with the liquefied oil, and the cover (into which both thermometers are to be previously inserted) placed on it, care being taken that the bulb of the additional thermometer is not brought into contact with the bracket-gauge fixed inside the cup. The oil-cup is then to be placed in a refrigerator, or plunged up to the projecting collar in water maintained at sufficiently low temperature, until both thermometers indicate the temperature at which the testing of petroleum is directed in Part III of this Schedule to be commenced. The oil-cup is then to be removed, wiped dry and placed in the water-bath, and the testing effected in the manner prescribed in Part III of this Schedule, the temperature indicated by the additional (vertical) thermometer alone being noted, and the average of three determinations, duly corrected for atmospheric pressure, being recorded as the flashing point of the sample, provided that no greater difference than 4° Fahrenheit exists between any two of such results.

Table for correction of Flashing Points indicated by the test for Variations in Barometric Pressure on either

side of Thirty Inches.

Barometer in inches.

(The First Schedule.-Testing.)

66.2 66.5 66.8 67.2 67.5 67.8 68.1
67.2 67.5 67.8 68.2 69.5 68.8 69.1
68.2 68.5 68.8 69.2 69.5 69.8 70.1
69.2 69.5 69.8 70.2 70.5 70.8 71.1

704 70-771
71.4 71.7 72
72.4 72.7 73 73.4 73.7 74 74.3
73.4 73.7 74 74.4 74.7 75 75.3
74.4 74-7 75
75.4 75.7 76

An Act to amend the Law relating to Arbitration.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to arbitration by agreement without the intervention of a Court of Justice; It is hereby enacted as

follows:

1. (1) This Act may be called the Indian Arbitration Act, 1899.

(2) It extends to the whole of British India; and

(3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1899.

Short title, extent and commencement.

2. Subject to the provisions of section 23, this Act shall apply only in Application. cases where, if the subject-matter submitted to arbitration were the subject of

a suit, the suit could, whether with leave or otherwise, be instituted in a

Presidency-town:

Provided that the Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may, by notification in the local official Gazette, declare this Act applicable in any other local area, as if it were a Presidency

town.

1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1898, Pt. V, p. 286; for Report of the Select Committee, see ibid, 1893, Pt. V, p. 31; for l'roceedings in Council, see ibid, 1898, Pt. VI, p. 366, and ibid, 1899, Pt. VI, pp. 17, 52 and 60.

The Act has been declared applicable to the town of Karachi, see Bombay Government Gazette, 1899, Pt. I, p. 1127.

(Secs. 3-8.)

Exclusion of

certain enactments in

certain cases where Act applies.

Definitions.

Submission

to be irrevocable except by leave of Court. Provisions implied in submissions.

Reference to arbitrator

to be appoint. ed by third person.

Power for the Court in certain cases to appoint an arbitrator, umpire or third arbitra

tor.

3. The last thirty-seven words of section 21 of the Specific Relief Act,1 I of 1877. 1877, and sections 523 to 526 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall not apply XIV of 1882. to any submission or arbitration to which the provisions of this Act for the time being apply:

Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect any arbitration pending in a
Presidency-town at the commencement of this Act or in any local area at the
date of the application thereto of this Act as aforesaid, but shall apply to every
arbitration commenced after the commencement of this Act or the date of the
application thereof, as the case may be, under any agreement or order previously
made:

Provided, also, that nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of the
Indian Companies Act, 1882, relating to arbitration.

4. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,-

(a) "the Court" means, in the Presidency-towns, the High Court, and,
elsewhere, the Court of the District Judge; and

(b) "submission" means a written agreement to submit present or
future differences to arbitration, whether an arbitrator is named
therein or not.

5. A submission, unless a different intention is expressed therein, shall be
irrevocable, except by leave of the Court.

6. A submission, unless a different intention is expressed therein, shall be deemed to include the provisions set forth in the First Schedule, in so far as they are applicable to the reference under submission.

7. The parties to a submission may agree that the reference shall be to an arbitrator or arbitrators to be appointed by a person designated therein.

Such person may be designated either by name or as the holder for the time being of any office or appointment.

Illustration.

The parties to a submission may agree that any dispute arising between them in respect of the subject-matter of the submission shall be referred to an arbitrator to be appointed by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, or, as the case may be, to an arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce.

8. (1) In any of the following cases :

(a) where a submission provides that the reference shall be to a single
arbitrator, and all the parties do not, after differences have arisen,
concur in the appointment of an arbitrator;

VI of 1882.