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Show (LICENSE HECESSAHY-10 HECESSAHY-10 HANDLE POWDER Explosives Must Not Be I Held Without Permit ! After Thursday. TO APPLY NEW RULE Police and Sheriff's Offices Will Aid in Securing Enforcement. , Any person found with explosives in his possession after November IS without a license issued by the federal government, govern-ment, showing the purpose for which the explosives are to he used, will he liable to arrest and fine of $:'K0 or one year's imprisonment, according to notice received re-ceived yesterday by state, county and citv officials. Under the law tie director of mines is empowered to utilize the services of all United States officers and all police officers offi-cers of the states, imdudim? the eil y police forces, county sheriffs, deputies, enn st a hies and all officers in any way charged wi ih police dot ios. The police of the cities have already ben organized for this work, headed by a committee of chiefs. The police are not only to look after the enforcement of the law, but are also to make thorough investigations of all dynamite outrages and fires In factories fac-tories and warehouses, and to make their reports to the director of the bureau ol 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 imprison-ment for the placing of dynamite with intent to blow up property.. The penally-provided penally-provided In the federal war measure is merely to cover the illegal possession of explosives. The lrw provides that everyone who handles explosives must have a li-ense issued by the bureau of mines in Washington. Wash-ington. The seller of explosives and the purchaser of explosives must have li. euses. issued generally by county clerks or oiher local officers authorized to admin, ad-min, ister oat lis. There will he at least one. licensing officer in each county, and more agents will he designated if the county is sufficiently laree to warrant if-I if-I It a Stat1 ha laws providing for a sys-j sys-j tern of Ih ending persons manufacturing, i storing, selling or usius explosives, the I siate oifiHa's authorized to issue sufh j state licenses shall be desiqnatd j.s federal fed-eral lirpnsinsr agents: also city officials i qualified to Issue city explosive licences j will he given authority to issue federal ; llcfnss. A federal license v ill not re-j re-j lieve any person from securing licenses i required under state laws and local ordinances. ordi-nances. Only citizens of the United States j and the allies may obtain licenses. Rules for Contractors. i Con t ractors, mining com panies. Quarry-j Quarry-j men and others usinc larse quantUle-s of j explosives, wlih h are hamik-l hy em-i em-i ployees. may Issne explosives to their employees em-ployees only through those emploveeF In i id in c a license, called a foreman's license. 1 The purchaser of dynamite, in obtaining obtain-ing a license, must state definitely what the- explosive in to he i:sd for. and will hp held accountable for Its use ns tated and the return ot anv explosives that ma- ' re left. j With the Ft rift enforcement of this law , the federal a ut horif ies bore f o prevent j ep-'"skes from falling into tbe hands of ! evilly dispoped persons and to put a .stop j to all further dynamite plots. |