, 1884-10-01

er depth than at least A inches above the bottom of the
boiler. Within the limit thus fixed, Government is
empowered to prescribe how far the tube i'll question
may be sunk within the boiler.
Government is empowered to issue detailed rules as TO
the quality and construction of the boilers mentioned under
Nos. 3 and 3.
2.
Every steam boiler and exhaustplpe (cfr. : /. thereto ap-
pertaining shall be constructed in accordance with the regula-
lions issued by Government, which authority shall also be EN-
powered to provide regulations for the proper attendance OF such
boilers.
The Government is empowered to issue detailed regulations
for the use of locomoters in the proximity OF buildings and ln'
hammable objects.
Every steam boiler subject to public control shall be survey
ed before being taken into use either as new or after undergoing
extensive repairs, and shall be surveyed again on the expiration
been removed shall be surveyed before being taken into use
after removal. The purport of the survey is to test and examine
II the boiler fulfls the conditions prescribed by Government IN
regard to the construction OF steam boilers, and in the case of
portable boilers intended for use in the proximity Of intiammable
objects, if they are fitted with such protective apparatus as pur-
suant to 5 3 shall be required by Government.
Concerning the manner in which the tests and examinations
mentioned in 3 shall be effected, detailed rules may be prescrib'
ed by Government.
If the prescribed test and examination have not been effect
ed before the boiler is walled in, placed in position, or covered,
the owner Of the boiler, or the person who uses it, shall remove
whatever in the opinion of the surveyors hinders the proper test
ing and examination of the boiler.
In the survey of boilers constructed in a foreign country,
test of pressure may be omitted if it cannot be effected without
removing the covering of the boiler, and provided that it is
shown by certificate from the local authorities, legalzed by tho
Danish consul, that the testing III question mas been erected IN
such foreign country i'll the course OF the past year in accordance
with the legislation of such foreign country, and that the boiler
has stood the tes,-and provided that such certificate contains
such detailed information as to show that the boiler 81 i'll accord
ance with the regulations existing in the Danish West IndiH
Islands.
Survey of steam boilers may at the option of the parties
concerned be effected either at the place where the boiler is being
built, or at the place where tt is used.
For effectng the enacted surveys 2 experts are appointed.
The appointment is made by the Superior Authority, which is
entitled to select the surveyors from either district OF admlnlStra'
tion. If the parties are willing to accept appointment AZ PornA-
nent Surveyors, such appointment may be given for a term not
exceeding 3 years.
After completing a survey, the surveyors have to render u
full Report thereof, setting forth the condition and state OF the
they have discovered. This report is rendered III duplicate, OF
which one copy, which shall be considered as the original, is
kept by the Policemaster, and the other, provided with his GER
tihCate, is delivered to the owner of the boiler for his lnfOrma.
ton. The surveyors report stands valid as long as the defects
eventually therein set forth have not been remedled, or the re-
port reversed by resurvey.
Ifthe owner of the boiler, or the party who uses it, demands
the survey tested by resurvey, the Superior Authority appoints
to that effect the double number Of experts. The resurveyOrs
shall, II they do not III every particular con11rm the nrSt survey,
make statement as to the points i'll which the said survey is con-
frmed, and as to those i'll which it is reversed.
10.
Before a boiler subject to public control is taken into use,
whether as new or after undergoing extensive repairs, or, if sta
tionary, after removal to another station, report thereof shall be
made to the POcemaSter of the jurisdiction.
Every person who becomes owner of II portable steam boiler
locomotive or locOmotor) subject to public control, shall report
his ownership to the PoHcemasteT of the jurisdiction, and pro-
duce the copy mentioned Ill 10 OF the survey-repOrt. lie Is,
moreover, bound, when the boiler, without having been surveyed
or examined Is 15) in the course of the year, is used outside the
jurisdiction, to make report thereof to the PolcemaSter, and,
whenever the POlicemaSter shall demand 1t, to give information
as to where the boiler is to be found.
If the surveyors have by survey of abOler reported any defect
in the state, condition or construction &c. thereof, the boiler must
not be used before the POicemasters consent has been obtained
which consent may be made dependent Oh the condition that it
be proved by new survey, the entire cost (which shall be borne by
the person using the boiler, that the defects have been RENE
died.