The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-04-16


First, Upon application in writing
by the master or owner, they sball,oncc
in erery year at least, carefully Inspect
the hull of each steamer belonging 10
their respective districts and employed
in the carriage Of passengers, and shall
satisfy themselves that every such YES
sci so submitted to their inspection is OF
a structure suitable TO the service in
which she is to be employed, has smta-
bic accommodations for her crew and
passengers, and is in a condition towar-
rant tue belief that she may be used in
navigation as a steamer, with safety to
life, and that all the requirements Of law
in regard to fires, boats, pumps, hose,
life.peservers, floats, and other things
are faithfully complied with; and if they
deem it expedicnt, they may direct the
vessel to be put in motion, and may ad-
opt any other suitable means to test her
suifciency and that of her equipment,
Socoad, They shall also inspect the
boilers of such steamers before the same
shall be used, and once in every there
after, subjecting them to hydrostatic
pressure, the limit to which, not eXcec-
ding one hundred and sixty.hve pounds
to the square inch for high pressure boi-
lers, may be prescribed by the owner
or the master, and shall satisfy them
selves by examination and experimental
trials, that the boilers are well made of
good and suitable material; that the OPP
enings for the passage of water and
steam respectively, and all pipes and
tubes exposed 10 heat are of proper di-
mcnsions, and free iom obstruction;
that the spaces between the ilues are
sufficient, and that the frc-line of the
furnace is below the prescribed water
line of the boilers; and that such boilers
and the machinery and tue appurtenan-
ces may be safely employed in the SER
vice proposed in the written application,
without peril to life; and shall also salts
! fy themselves that that the saGety-valves
are of suitable dimensions, sufficient in
number, well arranged, and in good
working order, one of which may, il
necessary in the opinion of the iuspec-
tors, TO secure safety, be taken wholly
from the control of all persons engaged
IN navigating such vcssel@ that there is
a suitable number of gnage-cocks pro-
perly inserted, and a suitable wafer
gague and steam-guage indicating the
height of the water and the pressure ol
the steam; that in or upon the outside
aue of each outside high pressure boi-
Ter, there is placed in a suitable manner
alloyed metals, fosible by the hca, o'
the boiler when raised TO the highest
working pressure allowed, and that in
or upon the top of tue Aues of all othoI
high pressure boilers in the steamer
such alIoyed metals are placed, as alore-
said, lusing at ten pounds greater pres
sure than said metals on the outside boi.
leIs, thereby, in each case, letting steam
escape; and that adequate and certain
provision is made for an ample supply
of water to feed the boilers at all times
whether such vessel is in motion or not
so that, in high pressure boilers, the wa
ter shall not be less than four inches
above the Apc; Prori3ed, h0uecer, il
steamers hereafter supplied with new
high pressure boilers, if the alloy fuses
on the outer boilers at pressure of tel
pounds exceeding the working pressur,
allowed, and at twenty pounds above
said pressure on the inner boilers, i
shall be a sufficient compliance witt
J this act. .t ....
Nid, That in subjecting to the n.y.
droStatic test aforesaid, boilers called
and usually known under the designa
tion of high pressure boilers, the inspec
tors shall assume one hundred and ten
pounds to the square inch as the maxi
mum pressure allowable as a workin,
power for a new boiler forty-two inchel
in diameter, made, Of inspected irol
plaIes at least one-fourlh Of an inch thick
in the best manner, and of the quality
herein required, and shall tate the wor
king power Of all high pressure boilers
whether of greater or less diameter, ole
or new, according TO their strengtl
compared with this standard; and in al
cases the test applied shall exceed th'
working power allowed, in the ratio o
one hundred and sixty-Gve to one hun
dred and ten, and no high pressure boi
lers hereafter made shall be rated above
this standard. and in subjecting 10 III,
test aforesaid, that class Of boilers usu
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