Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-22


will pass down at ten am. tomorrow in
the st. Louis and Vicksburg mail line,
for Vicksburg and the bends.
The New York Shipping List, in COM
menting upon the new rules for steam
navigation, says;
All local inspectors not considered
duly qualified to undertake the survey
of hulls or machinery are to be super
seeded. Inspectors Of bulls are to be
persons of good character, and with
suitable attachments to perform the SER
vices required by the new regulations.
They must possess practical knowledge
of shipbuilding and navigation, the uses
of steam in navigation, and be fully
competent TO make reliable estimate
of the strength, seaworthiness. and other
qualities in the structure of steamers.
Inspectors of boilers must possess u
knowledge Of the duties of an engineer
in navigating vessels, and practically
understand all about the construction
and use of boilers, aud the appurtenances
connected Herewith, and be able to form
reliable opinion of their strength,
form, and workmanship, and their
sultableness to be employed without
hazard to life. The inspector of boilers
must also be qualified to survey the ma
chinery, and be acquainted with every
thing relating thereto. These two in
spectors of hull, machinery and boilers,
in every port, are to constitute board,
and are to act together. In inspecting
steamers they may direct the steam to be
got up and the vessels put in motion,
and may adopt any other means of test
ing their sufliciency and that of their
equipment. On completion Of survey
the two inspectors are TO subscribe
certificate to the chief district officers
Of customs, and the correctness of the
reports in such documents have TO be
verified on oath. No steamer may
carry gunpowder without being licensed,
and certificates from the inspectors that
proper chests or safes, metal.lned, or
compartments lined and sheathed, are
provided for storage.
The merits and dement's of the new
steamboat laws were discussed at Gin
cinnat on Wednesday at meeting Of
steamboatmen. The laws, as a general
thing, do not seem to take well.
The remaining rules relative to steam
registers that were recently adopted by
the Board of Inspectors a. Washington
are as follows:
RULE 69. Steam registers recording
the number of times the working pres
sure has been exceeded by a graduated
dial-plate or plates, with hands or point
ers moving over the same, shall be so
constructed as not to necessitate the
pressure of steam falling to exceed two
and half pounds below the working
pressure, in order to record the next ex-
cess. And all steam registers shall be
so constructed as to record each excess
of more than two and a half pounds
above the working pressure allowed for
low-pressure boilers, and five pounds
above the working pressure allowed for
high-pressure boilers. And each steam
register attached to either high or low
pressure boilers, shall be capable of re-
cording ten pounds above the test pres
sure
RULE 60, All steam registers shall be
placed in conspicuous places under the
direction of inspectors, who shall also
prescribe the manner in which steam
registers shall be attached to boilers or
steam pipes
RULE 20. 1t shall be the duty of all
inspectors, before issuing certificate of
inspection to any steamer, to ascertain
by actual test that the steam register re-
quired by law is in accordance with the
foregoing rules