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

qualities of steam vessels, and of all parts of the
machinery employed in steaming. The said
supervising inspectors and the supervising In
spector general shall assemble together as a
board. once in each year, at the City of Wash
ington, District of Columbia on the third We'd
nesday in January, and at such other times as
the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe,
for Joint consultation, and shall assign to each
of the supervising inspectors, respectively, the
limits of territory within which he shall per-
form his duties, and the said board shall estab-
lish all necessary rules and regulations required
to carry out in the most effective manner the
provisions of this act for the safety of life which
rules and regulations, when approved by the
the Secretary OF the Treasury, shall have the
force of law: Prouided, however, That the
supervising Inspector for the district embracing
the Pacific coast shall lot be under obligation
TO attend the meetings of the board oftener than
such meetings, he shall make his communica-
tions thereto, in the way of report. in such
manner as the board shall prescribe.
SEC. "a. Assd be 1t further enacted That each
supervising inspector shall watch over all parts
of the territory assigned to him, shall visit con-
fer with, and examine into the doings of the To-
cal boards of inspectors within his district and
shall instruct them in the proper performance
of their duties and shall, whenever he thinks
it expedient visit such vessel licensed, and ex-
anime into their condition, for the purpose OF
aseertaining whether the provisions of this act
have been observed and complied with, both by
the board of inspectors and the master and own
ers and it shall be the duty of all masters, en-
glneers, mates, and pilots of such vessels to
answer all reasonable inquiries, al to give all
the information in their power in regard to any
such vessel so visited, and her machinery for
steaming, and the manner of managing both.
SEC Is Ind be 1T further enacted, That
whenever a supervising inspector ascertains to
his satisfaction that any master, mate engineer,
pilot or owner of any such vessel fails to per-
form his duties according to the provisions of
this act, he shall report the facts in writing to
the board in the district where the vessel was in
spected or belongs; and, if need be, he shall
cause the negligent or offending party to be
prosecuted and if the supervising inspector has
good reason to believe there has been. through
negligence or any other cause, failure of the
board who inspected the vessel to do its duty,
he shall report the facts in writing to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, who shall cause imnsedi-
ate investigation into the truth of the complaint
and, if he deems the cause sufficient shall re-
move the delinquent
SEC 26. And be 1T further enacted That it
shall be the duty of such supervising inspectors
to see that the said several boards within their
respective districts execute their duties faithful
ly, promptly, and, as far as possible, uniformly
in all places by following out the provisions of
this act according to the true intent and mean
ing thereof and they shall, as far as practicable,
harmogize differences of opinion when they ex-
list in different local boards.
SEC. q. Aad be 1T further enacted, That the
said supervising inspectors shall also visit col
lection districts in which there are no boards of
inspectors, if there be any, where steamers
are owned or employed, and each one shall
have full power to inspect any such steamer or
the boilers of such steamer In any such district,
or in any district where, from distance or other
cause, it is announcement to resort to the local
board, and to grant certificates of approval, and
to do and perform all the duties imposed upon
local boards by this act.
SEC Aad he further enacted That
it shall be the duty of the board of supervising
inspectors to establish such rules and regulations
as may be necessary to make known in prop
er manner to local inspectors the names of all
persons licensed under the provisions of this
act the names of all persons from whom Ii
censes have been withheld, and the
names of all whose licenses
have been suspended or revoked and al
SO names of all steam vessels neglecting or re-
fusing to make such repairs as may be ordered
under the provisions of this act, and the names
of all that have been refused certificates of in
spection. And each supervising Inspector shall
report, in writing, at the annual meetings of the
board, the general business transacted in his
district during the year, embracing all viola
tions of the steamboat laws, aud the action taken
in relation to the same ali investigations and de-
cisions by local inspectors, and all cases of APP
peal, and the result thereof; and the board shall
examine into all the acts of each supervising in
spector and local board, and all complaints
made against the same, in relation to the per-
Torrance of their duties under the law, and the
judgment of the board in each case shall be en-
tered upon their journal; and the board shall.ss
far as possible, correct mistakes where they ex-
list ~ 81
SEC. %. And be 1T farther enacted, That It
shall be the duty of the board of supervising in
spectors to establish such rules and regulations
to be observed by all steam vessels in passing
each other as they shall from time to time deem
necessary for safety, two printed copies of which
rules and regulations, signed by said inspectors,
shall be furnished to each of such vessels and
shall at all times be kept up in conspicuous
places in such vessels, which rules shall be OBJ
served both night and day. Should any pilot
engineer mate or master of any steam vessel
neglect or willfuily refuse to observe such regu-
lations so established, any delinquent so neg
ecting or refusing shall be liable of penalty
of fifty dollars, and to all damages done to any
passenger, in his person or baggage by such
NEGLECT or refusal.
SEC 80. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the collectors, or other
chief officers of the customs, and of the inspect
ors aforesaid within the said several districts to
enforce the provisions of law against all steam
ers arriving and departing; and upon proof I
that any collector, or other chief officer of the |
customs or inspector, has negligently or inten- |
Iionally omitted bis duty in this particular, such /
delinquent shall be liable to removal from of |
flee, and to penalty of one hundred dollars for |
each offense, to be sued for in an action of debt
before any court of competent jurisdiction
SEC. 81. Asd be It further enacted That ev-
cry collector or other chief officer of the Gus
toms shall retain on file all original certificates
of the inspectors required by this act to be de- I
livered to him, and shall give to the master or
owner of the vessel therein named three certi- I
fed copies thereof two of which shall be placed /
by such master or owner in conspicuous places
in the vessel where they will be mostlikely to /
be observed by passengers and Others aud there
kept at all times, framed under glass the other /
shall be retained by such master or owner as ev-