The weekly loyal Georgian., 1867-08-24

crude petroleum be hereafter carried
on such steamers, except on the deck:
or guards thereof, or in open hold;
where free circulation of air is Sc.
cured, and at such distances from the
furnaces or fires as may be prescribed
Dy an} supervisors supervising in
spector, or any board of local inspectors
Sec. g And be IL further enacted
That barges carrying passengers while
IN tow OF a steamer shall be subject tC
the provisions of the acts for the pre-
seryation OF the lives OF passengers, sc
tar as relates to fire-buckets, axes, anC
-prcservers. For violation of thi:
section the penalty shall be one hun.
dred dollars,
Sec. z. Ind be II further enacted
That steamers used as freight boats
shall be subject to the same inspec
ton and requirements rs provided fol
ferry, tug, and canal boats, by an ac
relating to steamboats,, approved the
eighth day of June, eighteen hundred
and sixty four, and to the provisions o
this act.
Sec s, Ind be IL further enacted
That If any person connected, as ;
member or otherwise, with any asso
citation of steamboat pilots, engineers,
masters or owners, shall accept or at
tempt to exercise the functions Of the
office of steamboat inspector, it shall
be misdemeanOr. for which he shall
forfeit his office, and shall be further
subject to a penalty of five hundred
dollars.
Sec Q. Ind be II FURTHER enacted.
That all vessels navigating the bays,
inlets, rivers, harbors, and other waters
of the United States, except vessels
subject to the jurisdiction of foreign
power and engaged in foreign trade
and not owned in whole or in part by
a citizen of the United States, shall be
subject to the navigation laws of the
United States and all vessels pro-
PEELED in whole or i'll part by steam,
and navigating in whole or in part by
steam, and navigating as aforesaid,
shall also be subject to all rules and
regulations consistent Herewith, es-
tablished for the government of steam
vessels in passing. as provided in the
twenty nHth section of an act relating
to steam Vessels, approved the thlrtieth
day of August, eighteen hundred and
tifty-twO. And every sea-gOing steam
vessel now subject or hereafter made
subject to the navigation laws of the
United States, and to the rules and
regulations aforesaid, shall, when un-
der way, except upon the high seas, be
under the control and direction of
pilots licensed by the inspectors of
steam vessels: vessels OF other coun-
tries and public vessels of the United
States only excepted.
Sec. 10. Ind be IL further enacted,
That all sea-going vessels carrying
passengers, and those navigating any
of the northern and northwestern lakes,
shall have the lile-boats required by
law, provided with suitable boat dis
engaging apparatus, so arranged as to
allow such boats to be safely launched
with their compliments of passengers
while such vessels are under speed or
otherwise, and so as to allow such dis
engaging apparatus to be operated by
one person disengaging both ends of
the boat simultaneously from the
tackles by which it may be lowered to
the water.
See. IL. 1nd be IL further enacted,
That the pro Iision for ioremasthead
light for stea nshIp, in all act entitled
L" An act fixing certain rules and regu-
latiOns for preventing collisions on the
water" approved the twenty ninth day
of April, eighteen hundred and sixty
Jour, shall not be construed to apply
to other than ocean going steamers and
steamers carrying sail. River steam
ers navigating waters flowing into the
Gulf of Mexico shall carry the follow
ing lights, viz one red light on the
outbOard side of the port smoke-pipe,
and one green light on the outbOard
side of the starbOard SmOke-pipe :;
these lights to show both forward and
aft, and also abeam on their respective
sides. All coasting steamers, and
those navigating bays, lakes, or other
INLAND waters, other than ferry boats,
and those above provided for, shall
carry the red and green lights, as pre-
scribcd for ocean going steamers; and,
i'll addition thereto a central range of
two white lights The after light being
carried at an elevation of at least lif-
teen feet above the light at the head of
the vessel; the headlight to be so
constructed as to show a good light
through twenty points Of the compass,
namely, from right ahead to two points
abaft the beam on either side of the
vessel; and the after light to show al!
around the horizon.
Sec. II. ARd be II further enacted,
That the annual compensation paid
to local inspectors Of steamboats, shall
be hereafter as follows, to wit:
For the district of Portland, in
Maine, three hundred dollars; for the
district of Boston, IN Ch arlestOwn, in
Massachusetts, one thousand dollars !;
for the district of New London, in
Connecticut, five hundred dollars; for
the district Of New York, two at two
thousand dollars each, two at fifteen
hundred dollars each, and one addl-
tiOnaI inspector Of boilers at fifteen
hundred dollars; for the district OF
Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania. thir-
teen hundred dollars; for the district
of Baltimore, in Maryland, twelve
hundred dollars for the district of
Norfolk, in Virginia, three hundred
dollars for the district of Charleston,
in South Carolina. five hundred dol
lars for the district of Savannah, in
Georgia, four hundred dollars; for the
district of Mobile, in Al hama, one
thousand dollars; for the district. of New
Orleans, or in which New Orleans is
the port of entry, Louisiana, two
thousand dollars; for the district OF
Galveston, in Texas, four hundred
dollars for the district Of St. Louis,
in Missouri, sixteen hundred dollars ;
for the district of Nashville, in Ten
ncssec, four hundred dollars for the
district of Louisville, in Kentucky;
twelve hundred dollars for the dis
trict of Cincinnati, in Ohio, sixteen
hundred dollars for the district OF
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