III. RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, COMPANIES AND PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE STORAGE OR TRANSPORTATION BY PIPE LINES OF CRUDE OR REFINED PETROLEUM, AND PROVIDING FOR REPORTS AND STATEMENTS, AND FOR THE PREVENTION OF THE ISSUE OR CIRCULATION OF FRAUDULENT RECEIPTS, CERTIFICATES, ACCEPTED ORDERS OR VOUCHERS, BY SAID COMPANIES, CORPORATIONS AND PERSONS, TO PREVENT THE REMOVAL OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE PETROLEUM RECEIVED BY THE SAME, AND PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF EXAMINERS OF THE BUSINESS THEREOF, AND FOR PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS ACT.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 1, P. L., 104.—Every corporation, company, association, person or persons, who are now engaged, or shall hereafter engage or continue, in the business of transporting or storing crude or refined petroleum, by means of pipe line or pipe lines, or storage by tanks, shall conduct such business in conformity with and subject to the provisions of this act.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 2, P. L., 104.-Issue of Receipts for Oil not Delivered Prohibited.-No receipt, certificate, accepted order, or other voucher, shall be issued or put in circulation, nor shall any order be accepted or liability incurred for the delivery of any petroleum, crude or refined, unless the amount of such petroleum represented in or by such receipt, certificate, accepted order, or other voucher or liability, shall have been actually received by, and shall then be in the tanks and lines, custody and control of the corporation, company, association, person or persons issuing or putting in circulation such receipt, certificate, accepted order or voucher, or incurring such liability.

Duplicate Receipts.-No duplicate receipt, certificate, accepted order or other voucher, shall be issued or put in circulation, or any liability incurred for any petroleum, crude or refined, while any former liability remains in force, or any former receipt, certificate, accepted order or other voucher, shall be outstanding and uncancelled, except in case such original paper shall have been lost, in which case a duplicate, plainly marked “duplicate" upon the face, and dated and numbered as the lost original was dated and numbered, may be issued.

Reissue of Receipts Prohibited.-No receipt, voucher, accepted order, certificate, or written evidence of liability of such corpora

tion, association, company, person or persons, on which petroleum, crude or refined, has been delivered, shall be reissued, used or put in circulation.

No Petroleum to be Delivered except on Surrender of Receipts. No petroleum, crude or refined, for which a receipt, voucher, accepted order, certificate or liability incurred, shall have been issued or put in circulation, shall be delivered, except upon the surrender of the receipt, voucher, order or liability representing such petroleum, except upon affidavit of loss of such instrument made by the former holder thereof.

Notice to be given before Duplicate Receipt is Issued.-No duplicate receipt, certificate, voucher, accepted order, or other evidence of liability, shall be made, issued, or put in circulation, until after notice of the loss of the original, and of the intention to apply for a duplicate thereof, shall have been given, by advertisement over the signature of the owner thereof in at least four successive issues of a daily or weekly newspaper published in the county where such duplicate is to be issued.

Receipt to be Cancelled on Surrender thereof.-Every receipt, voucher, accepted order, certificate or evidence of liability, when surrendered, or the petroleum represented thereby delivered, shall be immediately cancelled, by stamping or puncturing the same across the face in large and legible letters with the word "cancelled," and giving the date of such cancellation, and it shall then be filed and preserved in the principal office of such corporation, association, company, person or persons.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 3, P. L., 105.-No Oil to be Sold, etc., without Order of Owner.-No corporation, association, company, or the officers or agents thereof, or any person or persons engaged in the transportation or storage of petroleum, crude or refined, shall sell or incumber, ship, transfer, or in any manner remove, or procure or permit to be sold, incumbered, shipped, transferred, or in any manner removed from the tanks or pipes of said corporation, association, company, person or persons engaged in the business aforesaid, any petroleum, crude or refined, without the written order of the owner or owners thereof.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 5, P. L., 105.-Monthly Statement to be Posted in Office.-Any corporation, association, company, and the officers, agents, managers and superintendents thereof,

and any person or persons that are now or may hereafter be engaged or continue in the business of transporting by pipe lines or storing crude or refined petroleum, shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, make or cause to be made and posted in the principal business office where such corporation, company, association, person or persons is or are or may be engaged in business, in an accessible and convenient place, for the examination thereof by any person desiring such examination, and shall keep so posted continuously until the next succeeding statement is so posted, a statement, plainly written or printed, signed by the officer, agent, person or persons having charge of the pipes and tanks of said corporation, company, association, person or persons, and also by the officer or officers, person or persons, having charge of the books and accounts thereof, which statement shall show in legible and intelligible form, the following details of the business:

First. How much petroleum, crude or refined, was in the actual and immediate custody of such corporation, company, association, person or persons, at the beginning and close of the previous month, and where the same was located or held, describing in detail the location and designation of each tank or place of deposit, and the name of its owner.

Second. How much petroleum, crude or refined, was received by such corporation, company, association, person or persons, during the previous month.

Third. How much petroleum, crude or refined, was delivered by such corporation, company, association, person or persons, during the previous month.

Fourth. For how much petroleum, crude or refined, such corporation, company, association, person or persons, were liable for the delivery or custody of to other corporations, companies, associations or persons, at the close of such month.

Fifth. How much of such liability was represented by outstanding receipts or certificates, accepted orders or other vouchers, and how much was represented by credit balances.

To be Sworn to.-The statement so required to be made, shall also be sworn to by said officers, agent, person or persons, before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, which oath shall be in writing, and shall assert the familiarity and acquaintance of the deponent with the business and condition of such

corporation, company, association, person or persons, and with the facts sworn to, and that the statements made in the said report are true.

Sixth. That all the provisions of this act have been faithfully observed and obeyed during the said previous month.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 6, P. L., 106.-How Amounts in Statements to be given.—All amounts in the statements required by this act when the petroleum is handled in bulk, shall be given in barrels and hundredths of a barrel, reckoning forty-two gallons to each barrel, and when such petroleum is handled in barrels or packages the number of such barrels or packages shall be given, and such statements shall distinguish between crude and refined petroleum and give the amount of each.

To have on Hand Oil equal to Credit Balances.-Every corporation, company, association, person or persons engaged in the business aforesaid, shall at all times have in their tanks and pipes an amount of merchantable oil equal to the aggregate of outstanding receipts, accepted orders, certificates, vouchers, acknowledgments, evidences of liability, and credit balances upon the books thereof.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 7, P. L., 106.-Punishment for Issuing Receipts Contrary to Act, etc.-Any corporation, association, company, or officers or agents thereof, or person or persons, who shall make or cause to be made, sign or cause to be signed, issue or caused to be issued, put in circulation or cause to be put in circulation, any receipt, accepted order, certificate, voucher or evidence of liability, or shall sell, transfer or alter the same, or cause such sale, transfer or alteration, contrary to the provisions of this act, or shall do or cause to be done any of the acts prohibited by the second section of this act, or omit to do any of the acts by said section directed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, and undergo imprisonment not less than ten days nor exceeding one year.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 8, P. L., 106.-For Selling Oil without Consent of Owner.-Any corporation, association, company, or officer or agent thereof, or person or persons, who shall sell, incumber, transfer or remove, or cause or procure to be sold, transferred or removed, from the tanks or pipes of such corpora

tion, company, association, person or persons, any petroleum, crude or refined, without the written consent of the owner or owners thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one thousand dollars, and undergo an imprisonment not less than ninety days and not exceeding two years.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 9, P. L., 106.—For Neglecting to make Statement.-Any corporation, association, company, person or persons, engaged in the business of transporting by pipe lines or storing petroleum, crude or refined, and each and every officer or agent of such association, corporation, company, person or persons, who shall neglect or refuse to make the report and statement required by the fifth section of this act, within the time and in the manner directed by said section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of five hundred dollars for each day after the tenth day of the month, that the report or statement required by said section five shall remain unposted as therein directed.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 10, P. L., 107.-Appointment of Examiners Provided for.-The holders of any receipts, certificates, accepted orders, or other vouchers or evidences of liability, or the owners of oil in the custody of any such corporation, association, company, person or persons described and referred to in this act, to an amount not less in the aggregate than ten thousand barrels of petroleum, crude or refined, may at any time present their petition to the Court of Common Pleas of any county wherein such corporation, association, company, person or persons may be engaged in business and have its principal office, or to any judge of said court in vacation, setting forth under oath their ownership as aforesaid, and desire for the appointment of examiners for the purposes of this section; and upon such petitioners giving bonds to be approved by the court or by the judge granting the order, that they will pay all expenses and costs that may accrue in the proceedings, the court, or any judge thereof in vacation, shall forthwith appoint such number of impartial, disinterested and expert persons as may be asked for in said petition as examiners, and shall fix the amount of their compensation; and the court or judge by order shall direct and empower such examiner, to immediately inspect and measure all the petroleum, crude