Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-07-14

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session Of tho Thirty.
Eighth Congress.

Eighth Congress.
PUBIIC-No. 81
AN ACT to regulate the admeasure
ment of tonnage of ships and yes
sells of the United States.
Be It enacted by the Senate and Hous
Representatives. of the United States o.
america az Congress assembled, Tba
every ship or vessel built within tn,
United States, or that may be owne,
10y citizen or citizens thereof, on O
after the first day of January, eighteel
hundred and sixty.five, shall be meas
ured and registered in the manner
hereinafter provided also every shit
or vessel that is now owned by a citi
zen or citizens Of the United States
shall be remeasured and reregistered
upon her arrival after said day at a
port of entry in the United States, and
prior to her departure therefrom, in the
same manner as hereinafter described
Proraded, That any ship or vessel bull,
within the United States after the pas
sage of this act may be measured and
registered in the manner herein pro
vided. &c.,.
Sec. 2. Aad be ii furt1er enacted
That the register of every vessel shall
express her length and breadth, to-
gether with her depth, and the heigh,
under the third or spar deck, which
shall be ascertained in the following
manner: The tonnage deck, in yes
sells having three or more decks to the
bull, shall be the second deck from be
low; in all other cases the upper deck
of the hull is to be the tonnage deck
The length from the forepart of the
outer p!anking, on the side of the
stem, to the afterpart of the main
stern.post Of screw steamers, and TO
the afterpart of the rudder post of all
other vessels measured on the top of
the tonnage deck. shall be accounted
the vessels length. The breadth of
the broadest part on the outside of
the vessel shall be accounted the YES.
sells breadth of beam. A measure
from the under side of tonnage deck
plank. amid-ships, to the ceiling Of the
hold (average thickness) shall be ac-
counted the depth of hold. Ii the
vessel has a third deck, then the
height from the top of the tonnage
deck plank to the under side of the
upper-deck plank shall be accounted
as the height under the spar deck
All measurement to be taken in fee,
and fractions of feet !; and all fraction,
OF feet shall be expressed in decimals
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted
That the register tonnage of a vessel
shall be her entire internal cubical
capacity in tons of one hundred cubic
feet each, to be ascertained as fol.
lows: Measure the length of the
vessel in straight line along the up
per side of the tonnage deck, from
tue inside of the inner plank, (aver.
age thickness,) at the side of the
stem to the inside of the plank on the
stern timbers, average thickness,
deducting from this length what is
due to the rake of the bow in the
thickness Of the deck, and what is
due to the rake of the stern.timber i,
in the thickness of the deck, and also
what is due to the rake of the stern,
timber in one-thrd of the round of the
beam divide the length so taken in.
to the number of equal parts required
by the following table, according to
the class in such table to which the
vessel belongs: d ...
TABLE OF CLASSES. ....
Glass Vessels of which the ton
mage length according to the above
measurement is fifty feet or under, in
to six equal parts.
Glass 2.-Vessels of which the ton.
mage length according to the above
measurement is above fifty feet, and
not exceeding one hundred feet long
into eight equal parts. ~
Class 3.-Vessels of which the ton
mage length according to the above
measurement is above one hundred
feet long, and not exceeding one hun
dred and fifty feet long, into ten equa
parts.
Glass 4.-Vessels of which the ton
mage length according to the abov,
measurement is above one hundre,
and fifty feet, and not exceeding tw
hundred feet long, into twelve equa
parts. ..s.fga
Class 5.--Vessels of which the ton
mage length according to the abov.
measurement il above two hundred
feet, and not exceeding two hundred
aud fifty feet long. into fourteen equa
parts. ~
Class 6.-Vessels of which the ton
mage length according to the abov,
measurement is above two hundred
and fifty feet long, into sixteen cqua
parts.
Then, the hold being sufficient,
cleared to admit Of the required depth,
and breadths being properly taken
find the transverse area of such yes
sci at each point Of division of th'
length as follows:
Measure the depth at each point o
blNioioh ibhi poihs a. q aiStuhSS "
one-third of the round Of the bean
below such deck, or, in case of ;
break, below line stretched in con
tinuation thereof, to the upper side o
the floor timber, at the inside of th'
timber strake, after deducting the av
erage thickness of the ceiling, which
is between the bilgc planks and lin
ber strake then, if the depth at tht
midship division Of the length do no
exceed sixteen feet, divide each deptl
into four equal parts then measure
tho inside horizontal breadth, at eacl
Of the three points Of division, and al
so at the upper and lower points 0
the depth, extending each measure
ment to the average thickness of tha
part of the ceiling which is betweel
the points Of measurement |; numbe
| these breadths from above. (uumbe,