Page. PASSENGERS ON BOARD OF STEAM VESSELS. Persons engaged on boats where lives are lost guilty of manslaughter.......... 42 42 What shall be evidence to charge the defendant in certain cases of accident... 42 43 Vessels propelled by steam to be provided with additional steering apparatus. 43 43 43 Freight vessels propelled by sails and Errickson's propellers not required to 44 Discontinuance of proceedings for violation of certain provisions of preceding 44 ......... Evidence upon which such proceedings are to be discontinued... Experimental trials of inventions to ensure safety of steam boilers authorized 44 44 44 Act of Congress of August 30, 1852............. 45 Penalty for navigation without such compliance.. No license to be issued to vessel until the provisions of this act is complied 45 45 Precautions against fire........... 45 Variation from precautions in certain cases... 46 Provision as to number of pumps and length of hose to be on board....... 46 Provision as to life boats, &c...... Provision as to steamers navigating rivers only............................... Provision as to life preservers, float axes and buckets..... Means of access to upper deck..................................... Provision as to carrying certain dangerous articles..... Penalty in case of violation in that respect......................... 46 46 47 47 47 47 Record of such certificates and licenses to be kept...... Provision for the appointment of two inspectors in certain collection districts 48 Two inspectors to consist of an inspector of hulls and an inspector of boilers 48 Inspection to be made once a year, and mode of.............. One safety valve may be taken from the control of the navigator.. Proviso as to fusible plugs... Provision as to hydrostatic pressure of high pressure boilers... Originals of such licenses and certificates to be delivered to collector....... 49 49 50 50 50 50 51 51 51 53 53 53 53 53 Record of licenses to pilots and engineers to be recorded as well as revocals PASSENGERS ON BOARD OF STEAM VESSELS. Page. Examination of applicants for license as pilots or engineers provided for...... 53 ..... 54 54 Appeal in case of refusal to license to supervising inspector...... Provision for other than annual inspection............ 54 54 ៦.៦៤ Repairs may be ordered by inspector in cases of omission to comply with law. 55 55 Masters and owners responsible for damages for neglect to comply with such 55 Repairs, where to be made...... 55 Cases where doings of one board may be modified by another....... 55 55 Inspection of steamboats where there is no local board............................... 55 Former defects to be remedied, before new inspection is to be made. 55 55 Compulsion of attendance of witnesses and their examination on oath......... 55 56 56 Report of board of inspectors.......... Mates and licensed pilots and engineers to assist said board and inform them, Liability of owners and vessels to refund passage money in certain cases.......... Penalty for obstructing or deranging the mode of ascertaining the pressure of 57 Penalty for allowing the water to fall below a certain line......... 57 Boilers to be made of stamped materials....... Inspectors to examine and require certain qualities of boiler plates......... Penalty for usury or making boilers of unstamped material........... Their reasonable inquiries to be answered and information given them....... 59 59 60 60 Provision where there is no local board or where it is inconvenient to resort to it. 60 60 Page. PASSENGERS ON BOARD OF STEAM VESSELS. Penalty on master for navigating a vessel not conforming with certificate...... Liability of owners for damages to passengers or their baggage............. Fees for inspectors' certificates and for licenses................. 60 61 61 61 61 61 62 62 62 62 63 63 License fees-how to be paid.......... Inspectors to keep a record of their doings and report the same semi-annually 63 Compensation of the district inspectors........ 62 Instruments of examination to be provided........ 64 Record of passengers to be kept daily and open to inspectors... 64 Lien on vessel for penalty in case of neglect......... 65 Bond may be given for satisfaction of penalty..... 65 Two copies of act to be kept on board of steamboats......... 65 65 65 Supervising inspectors to receive and transmit certain information to secretary 65 65 Secretary of the treasury to elicit certain information by interrogatives......... 66 Proof upon which they are granted to native citizens..... Proof upon which they are granted to naturalized citizens...... Inconvenience of obtaining passports abroad.......... .69, 70 70 70 70 Insufficiency of passports from judicial, municipal or State authorities......... Additional requirements where citizens visit Spanish West Indies............. PENNSYLVANIA, Law of, passed April 8, 1785, relative to indenturing de- Law of, passed March 27th, 1789, against importing foreign convicts....... 70 71 71 71 Page. PENNSYLVANIA. Law of, passed March 19th, 1810, concerning the education of German re- ..... 147 Law of, passed February 7th, 1818, relative to the importation of German and 153 153 170 Act of, passed April 15th, 1851, against landing foreign convicts............. 199 Abstract from the laws of Prussia on emigration and military service.......... 302 R. REDEMPTIONERS, Law of Pennsylvania of 19th of March, 1810, relative to Of Congress of July 7, 1786, asking revision of act of cession.... 292 Of Congress, October 10, 1787....... 293 Of Congress, April 23, 1784..... 299 RHODE ISLAND, Statutes of, relative to the relief, employment and removal of the poor...... 154 Qualifications necessary to exercise the right of suffrage in......... 165 269 S. SCHAUMBURG LIPPE, Accession of, to Prussian extradition treaty, July 26, 213 SOUTH CAROLINA, Act of, passed Nov. 4, 1798, against importing foreign convicts. 154 Qualifications necessary to exercise the right of suffrage in........................ 175 STORY, JUDGE, Comments of, on the naturalization clause in the Constitution 12 SWISS CONFEDERATION, Extradition treaty with, of November 9, 1855..... 214 T. TENNESSEE, Qualifications necessary to exercise the right of suffrage therein. 178 U. UTAH TERRITORY, Qualifications necessary to exercise the right of suffrage in. 189 V. VERMONT, Statutes of, relative to importing foreign paupers.... VIRGINIA, Code of, relative to importing foreign convicts................ Reply of, to Virginia resolutions of 1798....... Qualifications necessary to exercise right of suffrage in...... Resolutions of, in 1798........ Address to people accompanying said resolutions... 159 163 278 159 173 263 265 Reply of the State of Delaware to said resolutions, February 1, 1799........... 269 269 |