New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-07

| Inc TuleS anu lldbIOuS duOpleu Uy tue
| board Of supervising inspectors for the eX-
animation OF steamboats, are now issued,
| and copies will he furnished to the captain
| or owner of any steamboat who may apply
! for them. 1t should be stated that, so far
| as ferry boats are concerned, the supervising
| inspector of this district considers that they
will comply with the law by carrying two
| boats, which must be swung from dayits;
| sixty-four flats on the upper deck, capable
of sustaining two persons each, and one
| hundred and fifty cork life preservers,
which must be distributed in each cabin,
under the seats, and in plain view of pas
| sengers. The following are such Of the
| rules as are of public interest:
| RULE /. Certificates of inspection signed
by one local inspector only shall not be con
| sidered valid, nor shall the name of a regI-
lar inspector be substituted by that of any
| other person upon any such certificate.
1 This rule also applies TO licenses OF pilots
/ and engineers.
RULE 10. After applying the hydrnstatic
| test to boilers, the strength of which is
owing, in part, TO the internal bracing, the
inspector shall carefully examine the in
| terror thereof. to ascertain the character
and condition of such bracing, and to see
what weakness or fracture, if any, may have
been disclosed by said test.
RULE 33. Whenever steamers use pres
| sure upon their boilers exceeding sixty
pounds to the square inch, they shall be in
| speeted as high pressure steamers, and
designated as such.
RULE "a. All steamers on Western rivers
which have their boilers so situated that
! sparks from the fires may be driven back
among the freight or other combustible ma
| terial, shall have a sheet iron fender extend
ing forward from the fire-doOrs, not less
than two feet at the height of the furnace
fronts, and connecting with the same.
| RULE 80. Before a license can be issued
| TO any person to act as master, mate.
pilot or engineer, he must personally appear
before some local board a supervising in
! spector for examination according to law.
| Rule 81. Safety valves, attached TO the
boilers of all steam vessels hereafter built,
| shall have an area of not less than twenty
! square inches for five hundred feet of eff
fective heating surface lhalf the fue and
| all other heating surface being taken as eff
| fective). and shall be so arranged that each
| boiler on the steamer shall have one
| separate safety valve, unless the arrange
| ment is such as to preclude the possibility
| of shutting of the cOmmuncal lion CT any
| boiler with the safety valve or valves EN-
| ployed. This arrangement shall also apply
| to lookup safety valves when they are EN-
| ployed.
| RULE SO. One or more OF said safety
valves may be taken wholly from the con
| troll Of all persons engaged in navigating
| such vessels and secured by the inspectors,
| that said safety valves for the boilers OF
| the smallest vessels shall IN case be less
| than two inches in diameter. and for larger
vessels shall be of such dimensions as shall
be deemed by the supervising inspector of
the district necessary and proper for the
boilers OF such vessels, provided that in no
case shall the lookup safety valves have an
area of less than fifteen square inches for
| every FIVE hundred feet Of effective heating
! surface.
RULE 80. The lookup safety valves herein
/ provided for shall in their mechanism,
employ but one lever, or a spring loaded
! valve, and must be provided with means TO
| relieve the valve of lCs pressure from the
| outside, and that the valves, valve seats,
| valve chambers. pits. and guides 70 the
| spindle of the valves, shall be made OF
! composition composed of copper and tin.
and that the valve shall be guided to its
seat both above and below, and that the
case shall be so constructed as 70 preclude
! the possibility OF obstructing the working
! of either from the interior Or exterior Of the
| boilers, one or more of which kind of
valves shall be attached 10 the boilers OF
| all steamers hereafter constructed.
| RULE 40. All steamers now in service, and
which are now supplied with lookup safety
! valves, in conformity with the regulations
| of the former board of supervising inspec-
! tors, shall be deemed to have complied with
| the law relative to l,ckup safety valves.
| RULE A. All high-pressure steamers shall
| have inserted in their boilers plugs of Banca
| tin, in the following manner, TO wit: Cylinder
| boilers with tlues shall have one plug in
! serted in the top of one hue in each boiler,
! and also one plug inserted in the shell of
| each boiler from the inside, immediately
| below the fire line, and not less than four
| feet from the forward end of the boilers.
| All fire-box boilers shall have one plug in
| serted in the crown of the back connection.
II l l.
| TO the body OF person, and that shall be
used or required by law upon any steamer
! shall be made of good, sound cork blocks
| with belts and shoulder straps attached, SO
! as to preclude the possibility of its being
| accidentally detached FROM tie body: and
! every such life preserver shall be so con
i structed as to place the cork underneath
the shoulders and around the body nf the
person wearing it; and it shall be the duty
of the inspectors to see by actual examina-
! non that every S;ich life preserver contains
| at least aiix pounds Of good sound corks.
! AL life preservers that are not strictly in
/ accordance with this rule shall be con-
deIpned by the inspectors.
| Rule 81. All the ferrybOats Of fifty tons
or over, carrying passengers, shall be
| equipped as passenger steamers; III com
pliance with the law, as in the opinion Of
the inspectors, shall be deemed just, accord
| ing to the average number OF passengers
| carried per trip.
RULE So. Every steamer of fifty tons and
under, carrying passengers, shall have
! life preseryer for each passenger she is al
| lowed to carry, and also for each person
| composing her crew. She shall also have q
suitable yawlboat, with oars and such other
! equipments as in the opinion of the inspec-
| tors, the character of the navigation re-
! quires and every canalbOat navigating har-
| bOrs or rivers, and every yacht or harbor
tug shall be supplied with a yawlboat of
| sufficient capacity to carry her crew, and
| also with life preserver for each person
or board, except yachts OF very small Ca
| pacity. When a yawlboat can not be car
| ried, the inspectors may substitute other
| appliances for the same.
| RULE 81. Every plate used IN the con-
| struction Of boilers for steamers shall be
| stamped in the following manner, viz: at
| the diagonal corners, at a distance of about
| four inches from the edges, and also about
| the middle of the sheet, with the name OF
| the manufacturer, the place of manufacture,
| and the number of pounds, tensile strain,
| it will bear TO the square inch.
| RULE &c. Every steamer when under way
| shall be under the immediate control and
| management of a firstclass pilot, who shall
have license as such, and every such pilot
shall be limited in his license to the particU,
lar service to which he is adapted.
RULE 67. All steam registers shall be so
constructed as to be operated wholly by the
pressure of steam in the boilers to which
said steam registers are attached; that their
mechanism shall be inclosed in a metal
oasa so arranged as TO preclude the DOssi-