Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-11

Resolued, That local boards shall be particular
10 require that the hose be either constantly con-
nec;ed 10 such pumps, or be placed in convent
ent aud conspicuous position, that it may be
PROMPTLY attached thereto: and further that the
local boards shall examine, from time to time, the
fire engine pumps, and their attachments, and see
that they constantly kept in good and efficient
condition.
ResoLUed, That it be recorded as the opinion OF
this Board, that the articles of gunpuwder, oil oil
turpentine, oil OF vtrol, camphene, or other ex-
ploSive burning fl lids and materials which ignite
by friction, shall be carried in secure chests or
SafeS composed of metals, or entirely lined there
with having one or more apartments, at a secure
distance from fire; the above to be constructed as
meaning that all such articles will ignite by
friction shall not be carried in proximity to- but
at safe distance from, the articles above enume-
rated, and from each other:
ResoiDed, That, in order TO ascertain to what
extent there is uniformity in the action and deciS
ions of the various local boards, the Supervising
Inspectors shall, at the next meeting of the Board.
present specimens OF all certificates, licenses, and
tabular reports filed out and issued by the local
boards of their district.
Furthermore, That each Supervising Inspector
shall obtain reports from the local boards of his
district up to the LIST of October next and present
the same at the next meeting of the Board; said
reports TO embrace information on the following
subjects:
First, The number of steam vessels TO which
certificates shall have been granted.
Second. The number of steamers reported for vi
olation of the law.
Third. The number of accidents that have oc-
CURED IN. their district-their character, aad
cause.
Fourth. The number of boilers found defective
upon inspection.
Fifth. The number of pilots licensed.
Sirth. The number of engineers and assistants
licensed.
Ssrenth. The number of licenses to pilots and
engineers revoked.
Eighth. The number of pilots and engineers 10
whom certificates have been refused.
Resided, That the Local Inspectors shall here
after require all boats using high pressure boilers,
where wood is used as fuel, to have sheet iron
spark arresters placed in such manner as to pre-
vent the sparks from the furnace being driven
back alongside the boilers.
ResoEped, That one of the means of escape from
the nlGin or lower deck, to the upper deck On
case of fire or other accident endangering life,)
shall, in all cases, in inspections hereafter made,
be required to be abaftthe wheel, near the stern
of the Loaf.
ResOtoed, That the grade of any Engineer or
Assistant, shall not be raised during the time for
which his original license was granted, by any ot-
er than the Local Board which granted said origi
nal license, and by that board only when special
and satisfactory reasons are assigned therefor,
which reasons shall be endorsed on the new cer-
h6cate granted.
On motion, The time fixed for The next annual
meeting of the Board TO be held at Cincinnati,
Ohio, be changed SI0m the first Monday in Sep
Iemesls 10 The inst Thursday in November next,
and that The President be requested TO notify the
members OF the Board Of said meeting