Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-02

| boilers, engines, machinery, or their appurten-
anees, or any OF her equipments, or any matter
or thing contained in any cerfcate signed and
sworn to by him, SHALL on conviction thereof
be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, or Imprisonment not exceeding SIX
months, or both
SEC 3d. Ind be 1T further enacted, That no
person interested, either directly or Indirectly
in any patented life-preserver, life-boat, gauge
or any article required to be used ON any steam
| er by this act, or who is a member of any asso
cation of owners, masters; engineers, or pilots
| of steamboats, or who is directly or indirectly
pecuniarily interested in any steam vessel or
who has not the qualifications and requirements
as prescribed by this act, or who is Incorporate
in his habits shall be eligible to hold the Office
| of either supervising or local Inspector or dis
charge the duties thereof; and if any such per-
shall attempt to exercise the functions of the
office of steamboat inspector, it shall be mis-
demeanor, for which he shall be subject to a
penalty of five hundred dollars, and shall be
dismissed from office.
| See. "a. A,ad be 1T further enacted, That any
| inspector who shall, upon any pretense, receive
any fee or reward for his service rendered I'M
der this act, except what is herein allowed him,
shall forfeit his office and if found guilty, on
| indictment, or otherwise, punished, according
to the aggravaton of the offense, by fine not ex-
| ceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment
not exceeding six months, or both.
SEC. 50. Ind be 1T further enacted, That
every boiler manufactured after twelve months
vessels and made of iron steel plates, shall
be constructed of plates that have been stamped
in accordance with the provision of this act;
and if any person shall construct boiler, or
steam-pipe connecting the boilers, to be so used,
of iron or steel plates which have not been
stamped and inspected according to the provis-
ions of this act, otherwise as herein provided,
or who shall knowingly use any defective, bad,
or faulty iron or steel in the construction of such
boilers; or shall drift any rivet-hole to make it
cone fair; or shall deliver any such boiler for
use, knowing it to be imperfect in its fues,
Hanging. riveting, bracing, or in other of its
parts, shall be fined one thousand dollars, one
half for the use of the informer: Provided hos1-
erer, That nothing IN this act shall be SO con-
strued as to prevent from being used, any
steamer, any boiler or steam generator which
may not be constructed of riveted iron or steel
plates, when the board of supervising inspect
ors shall have satisfactory evidence that such
boilers or steam generators is equal in strength,
and as safe from explosion, as boiler of the
best quality, constructed of riveted iron steel
plates.
SEC. Sc. A'ad be 1t further enacted, That af-
ter twelve months from the passage of this act,
every iron or steel plate used in the construc-
ton of steam boat boilers, and which shall be
subject to tensile strain shall be inspected in
such manner as shall be prescribed by the board
of supervising inspectors and approved by the
Secretary of the Treasury, SO as to enable the
inspectors to ascertain its tensile strength hon.
ogeneousneSs toughness, and ability to with
stand the effect of repeated heating and cooling
and no iron or steel plate shall be used in the
construction of such boilers which has not been
so inspected and approved under the rules pre-
scribed as aforesaid
SEC. 81. And be 1T further enacted, That ev-
cry such plate of boiler, iron or steel, made for
use In the construction of steamboat boilers,
shall be distinctly and permanently stamped by
the manufacturer thereof, and if practicable, in
such places that the marks shall be left visible
when such plates shall be worked into boilers,
with the name of the manufacturer, the place
where manufactured, and the number of pounds
tensile strain it will bear to the sectional square
inch and the inspectors shall keep a record in
their office of the stamps upon all boiler plates
and boilers made. under the provisions of this
act, which they shall inspect.
SEC. 49, Asd be 1T further enacted, That If
any person shall counterfeit or cause to be
counterfeited, any of the marks or stamps re-
quired by this acts or shall designedly stamp or
cause to be stamped falsely any boiler iron or
steel plates, or If any person shall stamp or |
mark, or cause TO be stamped or marked any |
such iron or steel plates with the name or trade
mark OF another, with the intent to mislead or
deceive, any such person or persons SHALL upon |
conviction thereof, be fined two thousand dol |
lars, one-half to the use of the informer, and |
may, IN addition thereto, at the discretion of |
the court, be imprisoned not exceeding two |
years
Sec 80. And be 1T further enacted, That af- |
ter year from the passage of this act no iron
or steel plates shall be used in the construction
of boilers tor steam vessels unless they have |
been inspected in accordance with the provis- |
ions of this act; and the working steam pres |
sure allowable on such boilers when single-rivet-
ed shall not produce str ain to exceed one sixth |
of the tensile strength of the iron or steel plates
Of which such boilers are constructed, but /
where the longitudinal laps of the cylindrical |
parts of such boilers are double-riveted and the |
rivet-holes for such boilers have been fairly |
drilled instead of punched, an addition of twen-
ty per centum to the working pressure provided |
for single-riveting may be allowed: Provided, /
That all other parts of said boilers shall corre-
spond in strength to the additional allowances SO
made; and no split calking shall in anv case be |
permitted. And every such boiler shall be pro- |
vided with good, well-constructed safety valve I
or valves, of such number, dimensions and ar
rangements as shall be prescribed by the board /
of supervising inspectors and shall also be pro-
vlded with sufficient number of gauge-cocks
and reliable low-water Indicator that will give
alarm when the water falls below its prescribed
limits; and in addition thereto there shall be IN
serted, in a suitable manner, in the fues crown
sheet, or other parts of the boiler most exposed
to the heat of the furnace when the water
falls below its prescribed limits, plug of good
Banca tn and no boiler to which the heat is
applied to the outside of the shell thereof shall be
constructed of iron or steel plates of more than
twenty-sIx one-hundredths of an inch in thick
ness the ends or heads of the boilers only ex-
cepted, and every such boiler employed on
steamers navigating rivers flowing into the Gulf
OF Mexico, or their tributaries, shall have not
less than three inches space between and around
its internal fues; and the feed-water shall be
delivered into the boilers in such manner as to
prevent 1T from contracting the metal, or other
wise inJurlng the boilers. And when boilers are
SO arranged on steamer that there is employed
a water-connecting pipe through which the wa
ser may pass from one boiler to another there
shai also De provided similar steam-connec-