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Show EXPLOSIVES (MOT BE USED WITHOUT A LICENSE o Anv person found with explosives In his possession after November 15 without with-out a license issued by tho fedoral government, showing the purpose for which the explosives are to be used, will be liable to arrest and fine of $5000 or one year's Imprisonment, according ac-cording to notice received yesterday by state, county and city officials. Under the law the director of mines is empowered to utilize the services of all United States officers and all police po-lice officers of the states, including the city police forces, county sheriffs, deputies, constables and all officers in any way charged with police duties. The police of the citios have already been organized for this work, headed by a committee of chiefs. The police are not only to look after the enforcement enforce-ment of the law, but are also to make thorough investigations of all dynamite dyna-mite outrages and fires in factories and warehouses, and to make their reports re-ports to the director of the bureau of mines. Punishment Is Severe. Persons apprehended in plots to blow up factories and bridges will be turned over to the authorities for prosecution under federal or state laws. Most states have specially severe punishments for these crimes. New York has an extreme penalty of twenty-five years' Imprisonment for the placing of dynamite with intent to blow up property. The penalty pro-' pro-' Idcd in the federal war measure is ! merely to cover the illegal possession I of explosives. j The law provides that everyone who ' handles oxplosives must have a license : Issued by the bureau of miner, in I Washington. The seller of explosives I and the purchaser of explosives must lhave licenses, Issued generally by county clerks or other local officers authorized to administer oaths. There will be at least one licensing officer in i each county, and more agents will be ; designated if the county is sufficiently j large to warrant it. If a state has laws' I providing for a system cf licensing i persons manufacturing, storing, selling j or using explosives, the state officials j authorized to issuo such state licenses j shall be designated as federal licencing I agents, also city officials qualified to issue city explosive licenses will boj given authority to issue federal licenses. A federal license will not! relieve any person from securing licenses required under state laws and local ordinances. Only citizens of tho United States and the allies may obtain licenses. Rules for Contractors. Contractors, mining companies, quarrymen and others using large quantities of explosives, may issue ex-' plosives to their employes only through those employes holding a license, li-cense, called a foreman's license. The purchaser of dynamite, in obtaining ob-taining a license, must state definitely what the explosive is to be used for, and will bo held accountable for its use as stated and tho return of any explosives that may be left. With the sti'ict enforcement of this law the federal authorities hope to prevent pre-vent explosives from falling into the hands of evilly disposed persons and to put a stop to all further dynamite plots. |