now allowed by law, according to the tonnage of the vessel: For each steam-vessel of one hundred tons or under, twenty-five dollars; and in addition thereto, for each and every ton in excess of one hundred tons, five cents. Each master, chief engineer, and first-class pilot, licensed as herein provided, shall pay for every certificate, granted by any inspector or inspectors, the sum of ten dollars; and every chief mate, engineer, and pilot of an inferior grade shall pay, for every certificate so granted, the sum of five dollars. Such fees shall be paid over to the chief officer of the customs in such manner and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. § 4459. Bonds of inspectors. - Every supervising and local inspector of steamboats shall execute a proper bond, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form and upon such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and the payment in the manner provided by law of all moneys that may be received by him. § 4460. Instruments, &c., for local boards.-The Secretary of the Treasury shall procure for the several supervising inspectors and local boards of inspectors such instruments, stationery, printing, and other things necessary for the use of their respective offices as may be required therefor. § 4461. Salaries and expenses.-The salaries of the supervising inspector-general, of all supervising inspectors, local inspectors, assistant inspectors, and clerks, provided for by this Title, together with their traveling and other expenses when on official duty, and all instruments, books, blanks, stationery, furniture, and other things necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Title, shall be paid for, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, out of the revenues received into the Treasury from the inspection of steam-vessels, and the licensing of the officers of such vessels, which revenues, or so much of them as may be necessary for these purposes, shall be permanently appropriated therefor. § 4462. Regulat.ons by Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall make such regulations as may be necessary to secure the proper execution of this Title. CHAPTER TWO. TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND MERCHANDISE. 4463. Officers and crew of passenger-steamers. 4464. Number of passengers allowable. 4465. Penalty for carrying too great a number of passengers. 4466. Special permit for excursions. 4467. Lists of passengers. 4468. Penalty for failure to keep passenger-list. 4469. Recovery of penalties. 4470. Precautions against fire. 4471. Fire-pumps and hose. 4472. Dangerous articles not to be carried on passenger-steamers. 4473. Penalty for unlawfully carrying cotton or hemp. 4474. License for use of petroleum in the production of motive power. 4475. Mode of packing dangerous articles. 4476. Punishment for unlawfully shipping dangerous articles. 4477. Watchmen on passenger-steamers. 4478. Penalty for failure to keep watchmen. 4479. Fire-extinguishers. 4480. Wire tiller-ropes, bell-pulls, etc., for passenger-steamers. 4481. Boats for river-steamers. 4482. Life-preservers for river-steamers carrying passengers. 4483. Fire-buckets, axes, etc., for river-steamers carrying passengers. 4484. Stairways and gangways on river-steamers carrying passengers on main deck. 4485. Accommodation of deck-passengers. 4486. Penalty for not providing proper accommodations for passengers. 4487. River-steamers to be anchored when navigation is unsafe. 4488. Life-boats, etc., on ocean, lake, and sound steamers. 4489. Penalty for failure to provide life-boats, etc. 4490. Water-tight bulk-heads in lake-steamers carrying passengers. 4491. Use of instruments for security of life. 4492. Barges carrying passengers. 4493. Liability of master and owners for damage to passengers. 4494. Two copies of this Title to be kept on each passenger-steamer. 4495. Name of steamer to be exhibited. 4496. Duties of customs officers. 4497. Penalty for omission of duty by customs officer. 4498. Registry, enrollment, etc., denied to vessels not complying with the law. 4499. Penalty for failure to comply. 4500. Penalty in cases not provided for. § 4463. Officers and crew of passenger-steamers. No steamer carrying passengers shall depart from any port unless she shall have in her service a full complement of licensed officers and full crew, sufficient at all times to manage the vessel, including the proper number of watchmen." But if any such vessel, on her voyage, is deprived of the services of any licensed officer, without the consent, fault, or collusion of the master, owner, or any person interested in the vessel, the deficiency may be temporarily supplied, until others licensed can be obtained. § 4464. Number of passengers.-The inspectors shall state in every certificate of inspection granted to steamers carrying passengers, other than ferry-boats, the number of passengers of each class that any such steamer has accommodations for, and can carry with prudence and safety. § 4465. Carrying too great a number. It shall not be lawful to take on board of any steamer a greater number of passengers than is stated in the certificate of inspection; and for every violation of this provision the master or owner shall be liable, to any person suing for the same, to forfeit the amount of passage-money and ten dollars for each passenger beyond the number allowed. § 4466. Special permit for excursions.—If any passenger-steamer engages in excursions, the inspectors shall issue to such steamer a special permit, in writing, for the occasion, in which shall be stated the additional number of passengers that may be carried, and the number and kind of life-saving appliances that shall be provided for the safety of such additional passengers; and they shall also, in their discretion, limit the route and distance for such excursions. § 4467. Lists of passengers.-The master of every passenger-steamer shall keep a correct list of all the passengers received and delivered from day to day, noting the places where received and where landed, which record shall be open to the inspection of the inspectors and officers of the customs at all times; and the aggregate number of passengers shall be furnished to inspectors as often as called for; but on routes not exceeding one hundred miles, the number of passengers, if kept, shall be sufficient. The word "open" substituted for "opened" in the fifth lineAmendatory Act of February 27th, 1877; 19 U. S. Stats. 252. § 4468. Failure to keep passenger-list. — Every master of any passenger-steamer who fails, through neg ligence or design, to keep a list of passengers, as required by the preceding section, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars. § 4469. Recovery of penalties.-The penalties imposed by sections forty-four hundred and sixty-five and forty-four hundred and sixty-eight shall be a lien upon the vessel in each case; but a bond may, as provided in other cases, be given to secure the satisfaction of the judg ment. § 4470. Precautions against fire.-Every steamer carrying passengers or freight shall be provided with suitable pipes and valves attached to the boiler, to convey steam into the hold and the different compartments thereof, to extinguish fire; and every stove used on board of any such vessel shall be well and securely fastened, so as to prevent it from being moved or overthrown, and all wood-work or other ignitible substances about the boilers, chimneys, cook-houses, and stove-pipes exposed to ignition, shall be thoroughly shielded by some incombustible material, in such a manner as to leave the air to circulate freely between such material and wood-work or other ignitible substance; and before granting a certificate of inspection, the inspector shall require all other necessary provisions to be made throughout such vessel to guard against loss or danger from fire. § 4471. Fire-pumps and hose.-Every steamer permitted by her certificate of inspection to carry as many as fifty passengers, or upward, and every steamer carrying passengers, which also carries cotton, hay, or hemp, shall be provided with a good double-acting steam fire-pump, or other equivalent apparatus for throwing water. Such pump or other apparatus for throwing water shall be kept at all times and at all seasons of the year in good order and ready for immediate use, having at least two pipes of suitable dimensions, one on each side of the vessel, to convey the water to the upper decks, to which pipes there shall be attached, by means of stop-cocks or valves, both between decks and on the upper deck, good and suitable hose of sufficient strength to stand a pressure of not less than one hundred pounds to the square inch, long enough to reach to all parts of the vessel and properly provided with nozzles, and kept in good order and ready for immediate service. Every steamer exceeding two hundred tons burden and carrying passengers shall be provided with two good double-acting fire-pumps, to be worked by hand; each chamber of such pumps, except pumps upon DESTY C. & N.-12. steamers in service on the twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be of sufficient capacity to contain not less than one hundred cubic inches of water; and such pumps shall be placed in the most suitable parts of the vessel for efficient service, having suitable well-fitted hose to each pump, of at least one-half the vessel in length, kept at all times in perfect order, and shipped up and ready for immediate use. On every steamer not exceeding two hundred tons, one of such pumps may be dispensed with. Each fire-pump thus prescribed shall be supplied with water by means of a suitable pipe connected therewith, and passing through the side of the vessel so low as to be at all times under water when she is afloat; and no fire-pump thus provided for shall be placed below the lower deck of the vessel. Every steamer shall also be provided with a pump which shall be of sufficient strength and suitably arranged to test the boilers thereof. § 4472. Articles not to be carried.-No loose hay, loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naphtha, benzine, benzole, coal oil, crude or refined petroleum, or other like explosive burning fluids, or like dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on any steamer carrying passengers; nor shall baled cotton or hemp be carried on such steamers unless the bales are compactly pressed and thoroughly covered with bagging of similar fabric, and secured with good rope or iron bands; nor shall gunpowder be carried on any such vessel, except under special license; nor shall oil of vitriol, nitric or other chemical acids be carried on such steamers except on the decks or guards thereof, or in such other safe part of the vessel as shall be prescribed by the inspectors. Refined petroleum, which will not ignite at a temperature less than one hundred and ten degrees of Fahrenheit thermometer, may be carried on board such steamers upon routes where there is no other * practicable mode of transporting it, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the board of supervising inspectors with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and oil or spirits of turpentine may be carried on such steamers when put up in good metallic vessels, or casks or barrels well and securely bound with iron and stowed in a secure part of the vessel; and friction matches may be carried on such steamers when securely packed in strong tight chests or boxes, the covers of which shall be well secured by locks, screws, or other reliable fastenings, and stowed in a safe part of the vessel at a secure distance |