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RAILWAYS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 105

Carriage of dangerous goods on railway.

105. No person shall be entitled to carry, or to require the company to carry,
upon the railway, any aquafortis, oil of vitrol, gunpowder, lucifer matches,
or any other goods which in the judgment of the company may be of a dangerous
nature; and if any person send by the railway any such goods without
distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the package containing the
same, or otherwise giving notice in writing to the book-keeper or other
servant of the company with whom the same are left, at the time of so sending,
he shall forfeit... twenty pounds for every such offence; and it shall be
lawful for the company to refuse to take any parcel that they may suspect to
contain goods of a dangerous nature, or require the same to be opened to
ascertain the fact.


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