men, Brindisi, Boulogne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Canton, Chin Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demarara, Dundee, Elsinore, Erie, Foo-Choo, Funchal, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Guaymas, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Hankow, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau (West Indies), Newcastle, Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paris, Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan (Porto Rico), Saint John (Canada East), Santiago de Cuba, Port Sarnia, Singapore, Smyrna, Spezzia, Southampton, Saint John (Newfoundland), Saint Petersburg, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Saint Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swartow, Saint Helena, Tampico, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich. III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE B. Balize (Honduras), Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo. IV. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE C. Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piraeus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catherine, Santa Cruz (West Indies), Santiago (Cape Verde), Stettin, Tabasco, Tahita, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar. V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE C. Commercial agencies. Schedule B. Consulates. Schedule C. Commercial agencies. Schedule C. Pay of certain consuls estab Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loando [Loanda], four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the compensation of the consuls at Malta, Saint John (Canada East), Nice, lished. Lisbon, Santa Cruz, Tampico, Prince Edward Island, Barcelona, Saint Catherine's, in Brazil, and Nantes, is established at fifteen hundred dollars each annually, and the compensation of the consul at Hankow is established at three thousand dollars annually; and no money shall be be paid to the paid to the present minister resident at Portugal out of any funds what- present minister ever on account of further services in his office. For interpreters to the consulates in China, and to the consular court at Bankok, in Siam, including loss by exchange thereon, eight thousand three hundred dollars. No money to resident at Portugal, &c. Interpreters to consulates and consular courts. Persons For expenses incurred under instructions from the Secretary of State, in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and charged with expenses incident thereto, twenty thousand dollars. crime. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, including Marshals in that at Nagasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by ex- consular courts. change thereon, ten thousand dollars. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Prisons. Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars. and Dominica. For salaries of commissioners and consuls general to Hayti, Liberia, Hayti, Liberia, and Dominica, nineteen thousand dollars; and the title of these diplo15 VOL. XIV. Title. Suppression of slave-trade. 1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 531. Immigration. 1864, ch. 246. Vol. xiii. p. 385. Commissioners on claims of Hudson's Bay, &c. Agricultural Company. Vol. xiii. p. 651. Neutrality act. Boundary line commissions. Capitalization of Scheldt dues. matic representatives shall be hereafter minister resident and consul general, with no increase of salary. For expenses under the act of Congress to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, seventeen thousand dollars. For expenses under the act to encourage immigration, twenty thousand dollars. For further compensation of the commissioner under the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the final settlement of the claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Company, three thousand dollars in full for his services and personal expenses. For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars. For the payment of the second annual instalment of the proportion contributed by the United States towards the capitalization of the Scheldt dues, to fulfil the stipulations contained in the fourth article of the convenVol. xiii. p. 649. tion between the United States and Belgium of the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the sum of fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars in coin, and such further sum as may be necessary to carry out the stipulation of the convention providing for payment of interest on the said sum and on the portion of the principal remaining unpaid. Cemetery For repairs of cemetery fences and sexton's house, belonging to the fences and sex- United States, in the city of Mexico, fifteen hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States. ton's house in Mexico. Appointment of second assist ant secretary of state, and exam iner of claims. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a second assistant secretary of state in the Department of State, and also an examiner of claims for the same department, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum; and the salary of the second assistant secretary of state shall be thirty-five hundred dollars Appropriation. per annum; and such sums are hereby appropriated. Salaries. Fees collected by certain consuls and commercial agents to be accounted for to Secretary of Treasury. 1856, ch. 127, § 18. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all fees collected by any consul or commercial agent not mentioned in Schedule B or C, or by any vice-consul or commercial agent appointed to perform their duties, or by any other person in their behalf, shall be accounted for to the Secretary of the Treasury in the same mode and manner as is provided for in section eighteen of the act approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular system of the United States." And when the fees so collected by any such consul or commercial agent amount to more than twenty-five hunabove, &c. to be dred dollars in any one year, over and above the expenses of office-rent paid to Secretary of Treasury. and clerk-hire, to be approved by the Secretary of State, of which return shall be made to the Secretary of the Treasury, the excess for that year shall be paid to the Secretary of the Treasury, in the mode provided for by said act. Vol. xi. p. 58. Excess over $2500 a year Salaries of enVoys extraor SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the salary of any envoy exdinary and min- traordinary and minister plenipotentiary hereafter appointed shall be the ister plenipoten- salary of a minister resident and nothing more, except when he is appointed to one of the countries where the United States are now represented by an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. APPROVED, July 25, 1866. tiary. CHAP. CCXXXIV. -An Act further to provide for the Safety of the Lives of Passen- July 25, 1866. admit certain Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United neers or pilots States of America in Congress assembled, That if any engineer or pilot, Licensed engiwrongfully relicensed in pursuance of law by any inspector or board of inspectors, shall, to the hindrance of commerce, wrongfully or unreasonably refuse to serve fusing to serve as such on any steam vessel, as authorized by the terms of his license, or as such, &c. or shall fail to deliver to the applicant for such services, at the time of such pilots refusing to house, to forfeit refusal, if the same shall be demanded, a statement in writing, signed by persons into pilot $ 300. such engineer or pilot, of the reasons therefor, or if any pilot shall refuse to admit into the pilot-house with him any person or persons whom the captain or owners of any steamboat may desire to place there for the purpose of acquiring the knowledge of piloting, he shall forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved thereby the sum of three hundred dollars, to be recoverAnd thereupon on such ed in an action of debt founded on this statute. recovery, as well as on such refusal to give such statement in writing, or to admit such persons into the pilot-house as aforesaid, his license shall be immediately revoked, upon the same proceedings as are provided by law in other cases of the revocation of such licenses. How to be re covered. License to be revoked. Where there is a water con connection to be Maximum working pressure of boiler. Safety valves SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when boilers are so arranged on a steamer that there is employed a water connecting-pipe through necting-pipe bewhich the water may pass from one boiler to another, there shall also be tween boilers, provided a similar steam connection, having an area of opening into each similar steam boiler of at least one square inch for every two square feet of effective also provided. heating surface contained in any one of the boilers so connected, half the flue and all other surfaces being computed as effective. And no boiler shall hereafter be allowed, under any circumstances, a greater working inch. pressure than one hundred and fifty pounds to the square SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That one or more additional safetyvalves, of such dimensions and arrangement as shall be prescribed by the on boilers of board of supervising inspectors, shall be placed on the boilers of every steamer, and shall be loaded to a pressure not exceeding two pounds above the working steam pressure allowed, and shall be secured by the inspector against the interference of all persons engaged in the management of the vessel or her machinery. And the alloyed metals now required by Alloyed metals law, to be placed in or upon the flues of boilers shall be fusible, as now ers to be fusible, required by law, and at a temperature not exceeding four hundred and and at what temforty-five degrees of the Fahrenheit thermometer; and a good and reli- perature. able water-gauge and a full set of gauge-cocks shall be provided for and gaugeeach boiler, whether connected or otherwise. steamers; how loaded and secured. on flues of boil Water-gauge cocks. Construction employed on certain rivers. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no steamboat boiler hereafter hereafter built; built, to which the heat is applied on the outside of the shell, shall be of steam boilers constructed of plates of more than three-tenths of an inch in thickness, And every steamboat the ends or heads of the boiler only excepted. boiler hereafter built, if employed on rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, or their tributaries, shall have not less than three inches of clear space for water between and around its internal flues. And steamers hereafter built, which shall employ four or more boilers set in a battery, after built, how shall have the same divided in such a manner that one half, as nearly as to have boilers may be, of the number of boilers employed will act independently of the other half, so far as relates to the water connection; but the steam from all the boilers may be connected as provided by this act. Steamers here divided. Cotton, hemp, SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That cotton, hemp, hay, straw, or other easily ignitible commodity, shall not be carried on the decks or hay, straw, &c. guards of any steamer carrying passengers, except on ferry-boats crossing not to be carried guards of pasrivers, and then only on the sterns of such boats, unless the same shall be on deck or protected by a complete and suitable covering of canvas or other proper senger steamers, Penalty. material, to prevent ignition from sparks, under a penalty of one hundred except, &c. Coal oil or not to be so car dollars for each offence. Nor shall coal oil or crude petroleum be herecrude petroleum after carried on such steamers, except on the decks or guards thereof, or ried, unless, &c. in open holds where a free circulation of air is secured, and at such distance from the furnaces or fires as may be prescribed by any supervisors [supervising] inspector or any board of local inspectors. Barges carry ing passengers in tow of a steamer. Steamers used as freight boats to be subject to inspection, &c. 1864, ch. 113. Vol. xiii. p. 120. Penalty for certain persons attempting to SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That barges carrying passengers while in tow of a steamer shall be subject to the provisions of the acts for the preservation of the lives of passengers, so far as relates to firebuckets, axes, and life-preservers. For a violation of this section the penalty shall be one hundred dollars. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That steamers used as freight boats shall be subject to the same inspection and requirements as provided for ferry, tug, and canal boats, by an act relating to steamboats, approved the eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to the provisions of this act. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any person connected, as a member or otherwise, with any association of steamboat pilots, engineers, act as steamboat masters, or owners, shall accept or attempt to exercise the functions of inspectors. the office of steamboat inspector, it shall be a misdemeanor, for which he shall forfeit his office, and shall be further subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars. All vessels, except, &c. to be subject to the navigation laws of the United States. Steam vessels, ch. 106, § 29. Vol. x. p. 72. Seagoing steam vessels, when under way, except on high seas, to be SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all vessels navigating the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and other waters of the United States, except vessels subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign power and engaged in foreign trade and not owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States, shall be subject to the navigation laws of the United States; and all ves&c. to be subject sels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and navigating as aforesaid, to act of 1852, shall also be subject to all rules and regulations consistent therewith, established for the government of steam vessels in passing, as provided in the twenty-ninth section of an act relating to steam vessels, approved the thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. And every seagoing steam vessel now subject or hereby made subject to the navigation laws of the United States, and to the rules and regulations aforesaid, shall, when under way, except upon the high seas, be under the control and direction of pilots licensed by the inspectors of steam vessels; vessels of other countries and public vessels of the United States only excepted. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That all sea-going vessels carrying passengers, and those navigating any of the northern and northwestern lakes, shall have the life-boats required by law, provided with suitable boat-disengaging apparatus, so arranged as to allow such boats to be safely launched with their complements of passengers while such vessels are under speed or otherwise, and so as to allow such disengaging apparatus to be operated by one person disengaging both ends of the boat simultaneously from the tackles by which it may be lowered to the water. under control of licensed pilots, except, &c. Passenger ves sels to have the life-boats required by law suitable boat disprovided with engaging appa ratus. Foremast head light only on ocean-going steamers and those carrying sail. 1864, ch. 69. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the provision for a foremasthead light for steamships, in an act entitled "An act fixing certain rules and regulations for preventing collisions on the water," approved the twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall not be construed to apply to other than ocean-going steamers and steamers carrying sail. River steamers navigating waters flowing into the Gulf Vol. xiii. p. 58. of Mexico shall carry the following lights, viz: one red light on the outboard side of the port smoke-pipe, and one green light on the outboard side of the starboard smoke-pipe; these lights to show both forward and aft, and also abeam on their respective sides. All coasting steamers, and those navigating bays, lakes, or other inland waters, other than ferryboats, and those above provided for, shall carry the red and green lights, as prescribed for ocean-going steamers; and, in addition thereto, a central range of two white lights; the after light being carried at an elevation of at least fifteen feet above the light at the head of the vessel; the head Lights of river steamers navigating waters flowing into Gulf of Mexico; of coasting steamers, &c. other than ferryboats, &c. light to be so constructed as to show a good light through twenty points of the compass, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side of the vessel; and the after light to show all around the hori zon. tors of steam Boston and Philadelphia; Charleston; New Orleans; Annual pay SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the annual compensation of local inspecpaid to local inspectors of steamboats shall be hereafter as follows, to wit: boats. For the district of Portland, in Maine, three hundred dollars; for the District of district of Boston and Charlestown, in Massachusetts, one thousand dol- Portland; lars; for the district of New London, in Connecticut, five hundred dollars; for the district of New York, two at two thousand dollars each, two at fifteen hundred dollars each, and one additional inspector of boilers at fifteen hundred dollars; for the district of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, thirteen hundred dollars; for the district of Baltimore, in Maryland, twelve hundred dollars; for the district of Norfolk, in Virginia, three hundred dollars; for the district of Charleston, in South Carolina, five hundred dollars; for the district of Savannah, in Georgia, four hundred dollars; for the district of Mobile, in Alabama, one thousand dollars; for the district of New Orleans, or in which New Orleans is the port of entry, Louisiana, two thousand dollars; for the district of Galveston, in Texas, four hundred dollars; for the district of St. Louis, in Missouri, sixteen hundred dollars; for the district of Nashville, in Tennessee, four hundred dollars; for the district of Louisville, in Kentucky, twelve hundred dollars; for the district of Cincinnati, in Ohio, sixteen hundred dollars; for the district of Wheeling, West Virginia, five hundred dollars; for the district of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, sixteen hundred dollars; for the district of Chicago, Illinois, eight hundred dollars; for the district of Detroit, Michigan, one thousand dollars; for the district of Cleveland, Ohio, six hundred dollars; for the district of Buffalo, New York, twelve hundred dollars; for the district of Oswego, or of which Oswego is the port of entry, New York, three hundred dollars; for the district of Vermont, of which Burlington is the port of entry, three hundred dollars; for the district of San Francisco, California, fifteen hundred dollars; for the district of Memphis, Tennessee, nine hundred dollars; for the district of Galena, Illinois, one thousand dollars; for the district of Portland, Oregon, seven hundred dollars; to the supervising inspector of the Pacific coast, two thousand five hundred dollars; to other supervising inspectors, inspectors. two thousand dollars each. Louisville; Wheeling; Detroit; San Francisco; Supervising offices at New SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed, Clerk in local under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one clerk each in the York and New local offices at New York and New Orleans, and the annual compensation Orleans. allowed to these clerks shall be seven hundred and fifty dollars each. Pay. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treas- Stationery, printing, instruury may procure, for the supervising and local inspectors of steamboats, ments, &c. for such stationery, printing, instruments, and other things necessary for the supervising and use of their respective offices, as may be required therefor; and shall local inspectors. make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to secure the prop- ulations. er execution of the steamboat acts; and may from time to time cause Special examispecial examinations to be made into the administration of the inspection laws. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That supervising, and local, and assistant inspectors of steamboats shall execute proper bonds, in such form and upon such conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and subject to his approval, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices, and the payment, in the manner provided by law, of all moneys that may be received by them. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED, July 25, 1866. Rules and reg nations, &c. Bonds of supervising, local, and assistant inspectors of steam boats. Form and con ditions. Repeal of inconsistent laws. |