The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-07-22

shall be deemed guilty of misdemean-
or, and upon conviction thereof by any
court of competent Jurisdiction, shall
be punished by fne not exceeding two
Thousand dollars, or imprisonment not
exceeding eighteen months, or both,
the fne to go to the inform
er and the articles to be liable to seix-
ure and forfeiture.
SEQ. 6. Asd Be it further enacted, That
every vessel so propelled by steam and
carrying passengers In the night-time
shall keep q suitable number of watch-
men in the cabins and on each deck to
guard against fre or other dangers, aud
to give alarm IN case of accident or
disaster, and for every neglect of this
duty the license of the officer in charge
of the vessel for the time being shall be
revoked; and the board of supervising
inspectors may require every such
steamer, and also steamers carrying
freight, to be provided with such nnm-
ber and kind of portable free kim
guishers as in the Judgment of the
board may be necessary to protect
them from FIRE when such steamers are
moored or lying at q harf, without
steam to work the pumps; and if any
owner of such vessel shall neglect or
refuse to furnish the requfsite number.
of men necessary to keep watch as
herein requiredr he shsakbe fnea one
thousand dollars.
SEC. Z. And be it further enacted, That,
every steam vessel Navigating rivers
only (except ferry-boats, freight~boats,
canal-boats and towing>boats of less
than fifty tons) shall have at least one
good, substantial boat, with lines at
tached, and properly supplied with
oars, and kept in good condition at all
times and ready for immediate use;
and in addition thereto, every such
ssteamer carrying passengers shall have
one or more metallic life-ooars, OF such
Dimensions and Arrangements as the
board of supervising inspectors by
their rules aud regulations shall pre-
scribe, which boats shru be carried in
the most convenient manner so as to be
brought into immediate use in case of
accident: Prorided, That where the
character of the navigation is such
that in the opinion of the supervising
inspector the metallic life-boats can be
dispensed with, he is hereby authorized
to exempt any such steamer from car
rying the same, or may require @ sub
stitute thereof, at his discretion.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
every such vessel carrying passengers
shall be provided with q good iife-pre-
server, made of suitable material, for
every cabin passenger for which she
shall have accommodation, and also q
good life-preserver or float for each
deck or other class passenger which
the inspectors certificate shall allow
her to carry, including the officers and
crew, which life-preseryers or floats
shall be kept in convenient and acces
sible places on such vessel and in read
mess for immediate use in case of ac-
cident; and every such vessel of two
hundred tons or less shall also keep at
least eighteen 6re-buekets and TWO
barrels, and shall have not less than
four axes; aud every such steamer OF
over two hundred tons, and not less
tbs n FIVE hundred tons burden, shall
carry not less than twenty-four buck.
cts, four water barrels, and six axes;
and every such steamer of over FIVE
hundred tons shall carry not less than
thirty-five buckets, six water BARRELS,
and eight axes. The buckets aud bar.
rels SHALL be kept in convenient places
ana filed with water, to be in readi-
ness IN case ii FIRE, and the axes shall
be kept in good order and ready for
immediate use: Provided, hotoerer, That
tanks of suitable dimensions and ar
rangement, or buckets in sufficient
number may be substituted for barrels.
SEC. o. And be it further enacted, That
every such vessel carrying passengers
on the main deck shall be provided
with permanent stairwsys and other
sufficient means convenient to such
pa ssengers, for their escape to the up-
per deck, in case of the vessel sinking
or other accident endaugeriug lifei and
in the stowage of freight upon snch
deck, where passengers are carried,
gangways or passages sufficiently large
10 allow persons to pass freely through
them, shall be left open both fore and
aft of the vessel, aad also to and along
be the duty of the captain or mate of
such vessel to assign to all deck pas
sengers when taking passage the space
on deck they may occupy during the
voyage, and such space shall not there
after be occupied by freight, nor over
crowded by other persons, nor shall
freight be slowed about the boilers or
machinery in such a manner as to OBJ
struct or prevent the engineer from
readily attending to his duties; and
for every violation of this section rela-
ting to the carriage and accommoda-
tion of passengers, the owners OF the
vessel shall pay 6ne of three hundred
dollars.
Sec. TO- And be IL further enacted, That
every steamer carrying passengers
shall be provided with wire tilIer-ropes
or iron rods or chains, for the purpose
of steering and navigating the vessel,
and shall employ wire bell-pnlis for
for signalizing the engineer from the
pilot house, together with tubes of
proper size SO arranged as to return the
sound of the engine bells to the pilot
house, or other arrangement to repeat
back the signal: Prorided, That on any
such vessel, navigated by the marin
er's compass, so much of such wire
rope or chain may be dispensed with
and disused as shall influence or dis
turb the working of such compass.
SEC. IL. And be Il further enacted, That
upon the passage OF this act the Offices
OF all local inspectors who have not
the qualifications prescribed in this act
shall be deemed vacated, and that
when any vacancy shall occur in any
local board of inspectors now existing,
or whenever local inspectors are to be
appointed for new district, the su-
pervising inspector shall notify the
collector or other chief officers of the
customs for the district; and the judge
of the district court of the United
States for the district in which such
appointment is to be made, who, to.
gether with the supervising inspector,
shall meet together as board of des
ignators; and it shall be the duty oi
such board, or the major part thereof
one of which majority shall be the SUI
pervising inspector, when designating
an inspector of hulls, >to select a per.
son or good character and suitable
qualifications and attachments, to per-
form the services required Of him BY
shis act, who, from his practical knowl.
edge of ship-building and navigation
and the uses of steam in navigation
shall be full y competent to make q re
liable estimate OF the strength, seawor-
shiness, and other qualities of the hulis
OF steamers and their equipment deem
ed essential to safety of life in the nav
igation of such vessel, to be called the
inspector of bulls; and when designa-
ting the inspector of boilers, TO select
person of good character and suita-
bic qualifications and attachments to
perform the services required of hin
by this act, who from his knowledge
and experience of the duties of an en-.
gineer employed in navigating vessel,
by steam, aud also in the construction
and use Of boilers and machinery -ant
| appurtepances therewith connected
shall be able 70 form reliable opinion
of the strength, form, Workmanship
and suitahleness of such boilers AN.
machinery to be employed without haz