The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-28

OF HreS rs may be prescribed by any supervisors
lsupervisingl inspector or any board of local in
spector.
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That barges
carrying passengers while in tow of steamer
shall be subject to the provisions of the acts for
the preservation OF the lives OF passengers, far
as relates to trebuckets, axes, and life-preser-
vers: For a violation Of this section the penalty
shall be one hundred dollars.
Sec. z. And be it further enacted, That steam
ers used as freight beats shall be subject to the
same inspection and requirements provided
lor ferry, tug, and canal boa. by act relating
to steamboats,, approved the ;ghth day of June
eighteen, hundred and siXty-f:Jir and to the pro-
visions of this act
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted That if any
person connected, as a member or otherwise,
with any association of steamboat pilots, engin-
GERS, masters, or owners, shall accept or attempt
TO exercise the functions of the office of steam
boat inspector, it shall be niiatiemcanor, for
which he shall forfeit his Office, and shall be furtiI-
er subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all yes
seis navigating the bays, iniets rivers, harbors,
and other waters of the United States cyccpt YES
scls subject to the jurisdiction of foreign power
and engaged in foreign trade and not owned in
whole or i'll part by citizen of the United States,
snail be subject 10 the navigation laws of the
United States; and all vessels propelled in whole
or in part by steam, and navigating as aforesaid,
shall also be subject to all rules and re ulations
consistent Herewith, established for the govern
lncnt of steam vessels in passing, as provided in
the twenty-ninth section of an act relating to
steam vessels approved the thrticth day of Au-
sea gong steam vessel now subject or hereby
made subject to the navigation laws of the United
States, and to the rules and regulations aforesaid,
siiail, Wien under way, except upon the high
be under The control and direction of pilots liccn-
sed by the ins pect0rS of steam vessels; vessels of
other countries and public vessels of the UE!ttd
States only excepted.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all sea-
gong vessels carrying passci gers, and those nav
igalng any of the northern and northwestern
lakes, shall have the life-boats required by law
lni IL
tvs, so arranged to allow such boats 10 be safe
ly lunchcd with their compliments of passengers
while such vessels are under speed or otherwise
and so us to allow such di@cngaging apparatus to
be operated by one person disengaginw both ends
OF the boat simultaneously from the tackles by
which it may be lowered to the water.
Sec. IL. And be il further enacted, That the
provision for aforenast-head light for steamships,
IN an act entitled g An act fixing certain rules and
regulations for preventing collisions on the wa
ter approved the twenty y-lntl day of April
eighteen hundred and sixty four, shall not be con
srucd TO apply TO ether than .-Soing steam
crs and steamers carrying sail. River steamers
navigating waters flowing into the GuIfof Mexico
snail carr! the following lights, viz: red light
on the Outhoard side of the port smoke pipe and
one green light on the outboard side of the star
board Smokc-p pipe; these lights to show both for
ward and aii and also abcan on their respective
sides. MI coastin@ steamers, and those navga-
! ting bays, lakes, or other inland waters. other
than ferry boats, and those above provided for.
shall carry the red and green lights. S prescribed
TO, central range OF two white lights; the after
Hight being carried AT elevation of at least ft-
teen feet above the liz ht al the head of the vessel
the !it.td light 10 he constructed IL to slyw Il
GOOD light thrOuwlt twenty bOiutS of the COM
pass namely, from right ahead to two point abait
the beam or either side of Tie vessel and tic af
ter light to show all around the horizon.
See. IL Aud be further enactei, 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; rur the district Of Boston and
t'iarieetown in Massachusetts, thousand
dollars; for the district of New London in Con
mectcut, five hundred dollars for thc district Of
New York, two at two thousand dollars each
two AZ fifteen hundred dollars cac'i, and one ad-
ditional inspectator of boilers at fifteen hundred
dollars; for the district of Philadelphia, in Penn
syNaiia thirteen hundred dcllars; for the district
Of B:ii!in"rc, in Maryland, twelve hundred dol
lars; for the district of Norfolk, in Virginia.
three hundred dollars for the district OF Char
lesion, i'll Sout!l-Caroinr, five hundred dollars
for the district OF Savannah. in Georgia, four hun
dred iollars; for the district of Mobile, III ala
hana. one thalsand dollars for the district OF
New Orleans or in which New Orleans is the
poraof entry Louisiana, two thousand dollars for
the district OF Galveston, in TCXas, four hundred
dollars for the district of ST Louis in Missouri
sixteen hundred dollars Tor the Nashville. in
Tennessee four hundred dollars for t;ic district
OF Louisville, IN kentucky, twelve hundred dol
lars for the district of Cincinnltti Ohio. sixteen
hundred dollars for the district of Whcelng, in
West Virginia, five hundred dollars for the dis
tIict ot Pittshur%, Pennsylvania, sixteen hundred
dollars for the district of Chicago, Illinois, eight
hundred dollars for the district of Detroit in
Michigan. one thousand dollars for the district
ofCCaVcInd, Ohio, SIN hundred dollars for the
district of Buffalo, New York, twelve hundred
dollars for the district of Oswtgo, or which
Oswcgo is the port entry, New York, three hun
drrd dollars ; for the district of Vermont, of
Whic! Burlington is the port Of entry, three hun
dred dollars for the district Of San Francisco,
California. fifteen hundred dollars for the dis
trict of Memphis, Tennessee, nine hundred dol
lars for the district of Galena, Ilinoia one
thousand dollars; for the district of Portland
Oregon, seven hundred dollars to the supervis-
ing Inspector or the Pacific coast two thousand
five hundred dollars 10 other supervising in
spectors, two thousand dollars each.
Sec. Is. And be it further enacted, That there
shall be appointed, under the direction oil the
Secretary of the Treasury, one clerk each in the
local Offices ut New York aId New Orleans. and
the annual compensation allowed 10 these clerks
shall be seven hundred and fifty dollars each
Sec. Il. And be il farther enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury may procure, for the
supervising and local inspectors of steamboats,,
suc stationery, printing, instruments, and other
offices, may be required therefor; and shall
make such rules and regulations may be ne
cesSary to secure the proper execution of the
steamboat acts and may from time to time cause |
special examinations to made into the admins |
tratiOn Of the inspection laws
Sec Is And be it further enacted, That SUI |
pervisng, and local, and assistant inspectors of !
steamboats, shall execute proper bonds, in such |
of the Treasury may prescribe, and subject to his
approval conditioned for the faithful perform
ance of the duties OF their respective Offices and
the payment, in the manner provided by law, of
all moneys that may be received by them.
See. IL. And be it further enacted, That all
acts and parts of act inconsistent with the provis-
ions of this act are hereby repealed.
Approved, July 25, 1866.