Excerpt from Report From the Select Committee on Explosive Substances: Together With the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix
The evidence of many of the witnesses goes to Show that no adequate pro vision is made for the public safety as to the proper package or modes of conveyance for explosives when transported from one place to another, or for forbidding the transport, the loading and unloading of dangerously large quan tities, through cities and populous places.
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