The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
Powder Magazines
Powder Magazines.
No license can be obtained for a powder magazine, within 5 miles of (Quebec or Montreal, and outside it must be built of stone, walls 2 ft. thick, roof fire proof of metal and adhering to the building by its own weight only. It must be surrounded at a distance of 10 ft. or more by a stone or brick wall with stone coping 10 ft. high, and having but one door, covered with brass, copper or zinc, and not opening on any highway, nor on the same side as the door of the magazine. The magazine must have but one entrance, with two doors one inside the other, with copper fixing and covered or made of brass, copper or zinc. The floors tongued and grooved close jointed and covered with leather. It must have 2 lighting rods approved by the Inspector. No materials may be used in building the magazine or outer wall but stone, brick, copper, brass, wood, glass, tin, zinc or leather.