MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Attorney General what are the previous precedents under the Petroleum Acts of Orders in Council holding that the "substance" therein referred to may be a solid?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir RICHARD WEBSTER, Isle of Wight)The Question of the hon. and learned Gentleman is, I think, framed under a misapprehension. There are no previous precedents of Orders in Council under the Act, but the Act itself applies to solids as well as liquids, many of the substances specifically mentioned in the Act existing both in a solid and semi-solid state. The measures referred to in Suction 7 are measures of capacity.