houses, by receiving the first washings containing the impuri ties, and allowing only the pure water to enter the cistern. D. Lemley, 192 St. Charles street, and Geo Lemley, 100 Baronne street.

2064. It offers the following advantages, which will be readily recognized as conductive to good health: (1) It prevents deposits of all kinds on roof, from entering cisterns; (2) there is no going out into the rain to regulate it; (3) No valves or appliances to get out of order; (4) a neat, durable and inexpensive device; (5) During the summer months it removes, together with deposits, the hot or first fall of water on the roof, rendering the water, when received by the cistern, clear and of a cool nature; (6) Water may be retained in receiver for washing yards, etc., thereby not wasting, but utilizing deposit water; (7) It prevents stagnant or poisonous waters, which very often lies in gutters by the settling of buildings, from entering your cisterns.

2066. It shows how the still appears when connected up in the house. Three connections are necessary, viz.: Gas, water and waste. The operation consists simply in adjusting the water

supply so that only enough water will be used to condense the vapor of steam to an equal temperature of the water supply, then turning on the gas. The burner is of the well-known Bunson type, which does not deposit carbon on the retort, and each burner is provided with a gas cock. The gas connection should be made of iron pipe, though in the laboratory, and when in use among persons familiar generally with physical apparatus, a small rubber hose will answer as well. The waste, which in the cut should to run down at the corner of the sink can, in all cases, be rubber tubing, and held in position by staples or any other convenient way.

2067. The shelf shown, is to contain whatever vessel the purchaser might wish to use to catch the distilled water as it drips from the tube at the bottom of the Still. For a further detail in description of how to put on the water connection, see Fig. 13. 2068. These stills do not require to be cleaned out, except during several months' interval of use, when lime is accumulated, as in a tea-kettle; and then it can be cleaned out in a similar way. 2069. The distilled water, when cold, is palatable, and does not taste flat like boiled waters.

2070. It is more economical to use this apparatus than to buy various kinds of mineral or peddled distilled waters, and take the chances of some contamination getting into the water at a bottling establishment. F. F. Bradway, Agent, 715 Perdido street, New Orleans, La.

2071. An oil lamp may be adopted to take the place of the gas burner.

2071b. Localities erecting waterworks can obtain copy of the regulations for their guidance by applying to the State Board.

CHAPTER XIV.

LAWS AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING COAL

OIL INSPECTION.

The

N. B. The Acts of the State of Louisiana are obligatory. The Regulations of the State Board marked by a star are also obligatory. other regulations are recommendatory and educational. Each Local Board will adopt those which it thinks best suited for its local conditions.

207 IC.

Extracts From Act No. 37 of 1877.

Relative to gauging and inspecting coal oils and illuminating oils.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That

2072. It is hereby made the duty of gaugers and inspectors appointed under this act, upon notice received in writing from parties interested, to ascertain, first, the correct number of gallons of oil or fluid each barrel or vessel contains;

2073. Secondly, to inspect all coal oils or illuminating fluids, or oils derived wholly or in part from coal or petroleum, and to ascertain by Tagliabuco's pyrometer, or by any other proper instrument, approved by the Board of Health, the flashing point of such oils or fluids in degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, and to mark upon each barrel or vessel containing such oils or fluids, in plain and distinct letters, characters or figures, by stencil plate or otherwise, as the Board of Health may direct, the name of the gauger and inspector making such inspection; the place and date of such inspection; the number of gallons and the flashing point, in degrees, as aforesaid, of the oils or fluids contained in said barrels or vessels.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That

2074. Upon such inspection being completed, the gauger and inspector shall furnish to the parties requiring such gauging

and inspection a certificate of the same, made in duplicate, one copy of which shall be delivered to the Board of Health. 2075. That in the parish of Orleans said board shall collect a fee of

one quarter of one cent per gallon of fluid gauged or inspected, other than in barrels, and twelve and one-half cents per barrel for gauging, inspecting oil, and replacing bung;

2076. Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any oils destined for sale or consumption beyond the limits of the State, and that all such oils be branded by the seller, "For export beyond the limits of the State"

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That

2077. It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, firm, company or corporation, to sell or expose for sale, or dispose of, except as 'a common carrier, any coal oil or illuminating oil or fluid, derived wholly or in part from coal or petroleum, until the same shall have been gauged and inspected, and marked as provided in section 3 of this act; and

2078. Any person, firm, company or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars for each and every offence, and shall be debarred from any suit at law to recover the price of such oils or fluids from the purchaser thereof.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That hereafter 2079. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm, company or corporation, to sell, give or deliver, except as a common carrier, or offer or expose for sale any coal oil or illuminating oil or fluid derived wholly or in part from coal or petroleum, whose flashing point shall be at less than the temperature of one hundred and twenty-five degrees, to be ascertained as provided in section third of this act, unless the barrels or vessels containing the same shall have been stamped with stencil, or otherwise, in large letters, and in a conspicuous place “Explosive and dangerous," at the time of its inspection. 2080. Any person, firm, company or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this section, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of two hundred dollars for each and every offence.

2081. It is further provided that in the event of any injury or damage to person or property resulting from or caused by such

oil or fluid not so stamped, the party thus suffering shall have a right of action in damages against the person, firm, company or corporation selling, giving or delivering such oil or fluid, for the full amount of such injury or damage together with all costs of court; provided,

2082. This shall not apply to common carriers; provided, further, that such injury or damage shall not have been the result of gross negligence or carelessness.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, etc. That from and after this date,

2083. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm company or corporation, to sell, give or deliver, except as a common carrier, any illuminating oil or fluid, derived wholly or in part, from coal or petroleum, and known commonly in commerce as naphtha, deodorized naphtha, gasoline or benzine, or by any other similar name, unless the same shall have been inspected in the manner provided for illuminating oils or fluids in section third, and 2084. It shall, further, be the duty of all gaugers and inspectors, besides gauging and inspecting such oils or fluids, to stamp the same with stencil or otherwise in conspicuous letters, with the words "Explosive and dangerous," and

2085. Any person, firm, company or corporation, violating this section or any part thereof, shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars for each and every offence.

2086. They shall also be liable for injury or damages as provided in section sixth of this act.

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That

2087. In all parishes, except the parish of Orleans, it is hereby made the duty of the district attorney, or his assistant, of the parish in which any violation of this act shall have been committed, to bring suit, in the name of the State of Louisiana, in any court of competent jurisdiction, against the offender for the recovery of penalties incurred under this act.

2088. In the parish of Orleans the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana shall prosecute in its own name, before any court of competent jurisdiction, all parties guilty of any offence under the provisions of this act.

2089. All penalties or fines collected under the provisions of this