The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-10-25
v 4. GERkElI,
No. 2, KimbaIi S Blk
Main St. Kenosha.
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the FIRST SESSION Of Tie Thirty ninth
Congress.
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Passed at the First SESSION Of The Thirty ninth
Congress.
[PUBLIc-No. 1871
AN ACT further to provide for the safety of the lives
OF passengers ON board of vessels propelled in
whole or In part by steam, to regulate the salaries
OF steamboat inspectors. and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the renate and House of Repre-
sentatves ofthe United states of America in Con
gress assembled. That if any engineer or pilot H.
censed in pursuance of law by any INSPECTOR O
board of Inspectors shall, to the hindrance of com
merce, wrongfully or unreasonably refuse to serve
as such ON any steam vessel, as authorized by the
terms Of his license shall fail TO deliver to the
applicant for such services, at the time of such re
fusa If the same shall be demanded statement in
writing signed by such engineer or pilot, of the
reasons therefor if any pilot shall refuse to nd
nit into the pilot-house with him any person or per
sons whom the captain owners of any steam boat
may desire to place there for the purpose of acquir
ing the knowledge of plotting he shall forfeit and
pay 10 the party aggreVed thereby the sum of thre
hundred dollars TO be recovered in an action of debt
founded an this statue. And thereupon on such re-
covefy, as well as on such refusal to give such
statement IN writing, or to admit such persons into
the pllot-house as Aforesaid. his license shall be I'm
mediateIy revoked, upon the law proceedings as ar
such licenses. -'00''i0l Vi
SEC. ?. A'ad be 1t turtte, enacted, That when
boilers are so arranged a steamer that there is
empoyeu water connecting-pipe through which
the water may pass from one boiler to another ther
snail also be provided similar steam conneXi0u.
having an area OF opening into each boiler of
least one square inch for every two souare feet nj
effective healing surface contained in any one of the
boilers so connected half the ue and ali other sur
races beng computed as effective. And no boiler
shall hereinafter be allowed, under any crcumstan-
ces greater working pressure than one hundred and
fifty pounds to the square inch.
SEC. 3. A7ad be Il further enacted. That ONE
or more additional safety-yalves OF such dimensions
and arrangement shall be prescribed by the board
of supervising inspectors, shall be placed on the
boilers OF every steamer, and shall be loaded to
pressure not exceeding two pounds above the work
Ing steam pressure allowed, and shall be secured by
the inspector against the interference of all persons
engaged in the management of the vessel or b,r
machinery. And the alleged metals now reuuirgd
by law to be placed in upon the ffues of boiler,
shail De iuslole, as now required by law. and at
te1nperature not exceeding four hundred and forty
nve OF the Fahrenheit thermometer: and reliable
water,gauge and a full set of gauge cocks shall be
otherwise. VI
SEC. 4. And be 1t further enacted That
no steamboat boiler hereafter built TO which tbe
neat Is applied on the outside Of the she'll shall be
constructed Oi plates OF more than hree-tentbs of an
inch IN thickness. the ends or heads of the boiier
hereafter built, il employed on rivers flowing into
ne Gun o. Mexico or their tributaries. shall have
hot TESS than three inches of clear space for water
between and around lis Internal iues And steam
ers hereafter built which shall employ four or mon
ooI'ers set IN battery. shall have the same dividef
IN slch manner that one-half as nearly as may h.
oil the number of boilers employed will act inde
pendenty OF the other hall lar relates to the wa
Ter connexlon; but the steam from all the boilers
may De connected as provided by this act
SEC D. And be it further enacted. That cot
toh; hemp hay straw. or other easily gnitible com
hodty shall not be carried on the decks or quad,
VI any steamer carrying passengers except on Jerry
Doas crossing rivers, and then only ON the serns az
such ooats unless the same shall be protected by y
complete ana suitable covering OF CANVAS or o'6er
paper material to prevent ignition from sDarts m
Ger penaty Oh one hundred doars for each oftince
NOR shat any coal OH Or crude petroleum be hereaf
Ter carried on such steamers except on the decks Or
Suards thereof or in open holds where free circn
atlon OF air Is secured and such distance from the
furnaces or fires as may be prescribed by any sinner
q of lnea
SEC. 3: And be ii further enacted, That bar
yes carving passengers while in tow of steam
hal b. subject TO the provisions of the acts for the
preservation OF the lives oil passengers so Jar as re-
aies TO fre-buckets, axes and lie preservers F,Ts
'ioation OF. this section the penalty shall be one
hundred dollars.