§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Secretary of State for India, If he is aware that the Petroleum Act of 1879 for the United Kingdom fixes the flashing point, for safety, at 73 degrees Fahrenheit, and that the same standard was adopted in the Indian Act of 1881; and if he intends to permit so low, or even, as is now proposed, a lower standard for a country where the mean temperature of the year is at least 25 degrees above that of this latitude, and the summer temperature for eight months often exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONSir, the standard of the Act of 1881 for the test of petroleum was fixed by the Indian Legislature after full consideration, and with the approval of the Secretary of State. There is not, and has never been, any proposal to permit that standard to be lowered.