...the early Republic in his Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History (New York, 1951), 22-27. "An Act to provide for the better security of the...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam" was passed 7 July 1838. Public Statutes at Large of the United States, Richard Peters, ed. (Boston,...

...and on July 7, 1838, district judges were given the power to appoint local steamboat inspectors for "better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." The birth of the US maritime inspection program is attributed to the date of that act; in addition,...

...required all steamboats engaged in interstate commerce to be licensed and to employ only licensed pilots. An Act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board vessels propelled by steam, 5 Stat. 304 (1838). In its November 1849 session, the District Court for...

...drowned. A federal statute as early as 1838 tried to regulate boilers on steamboats; and an elaborate act "for the better Security of the lives of Passengers...board of Vessels propelled in whole or in part by Steam" was passed in 1852. 41 Whether these did much good is another question. On April 27, 1865, the...

...required all steamboats engaged in interstate commerce to be licensed and to employ only licensed pilots. An Act to Provide for the Better Security of the Lives of Passengers on Board Vessels Propelled by Steam, 5 Stat. 304 (1838). In its November 1849 session, Leavitt promulgated rules...

...reported are to recover penalties incurred under the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled ' An act to provide for the better security of the lives...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steal,,, and for uher purposes,' approved August 30, IS52." By the foity-first section, t is provided...

...issued in the name of the president - and secretary of the company. The act of July 7, 1838, entitled “An Act to Provide for the Better Security of the...Board of Vessels Propelled in Whole or in Part by Steam,” was the original statute of which the “Steamboat Act” of 1852 was an amendment. The act...

...ichole or in part by steam, report: That the ninth section of the act of August 30, 1852, entitled "An act to provide for the better security of the...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," provides that "upon the application of the master or owner of any steamboat...

...vessels aud to the masters thereof ; and so much of the act entitled, " An act to amend an act entitled ' An act to provide for the better security of the lives...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes,'" approved August thiitielh, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as conflicts...

...with low-pressure marine engines. I annex, also, a copy of the law of the United States, entitled " An act to provide for the better security of the lives...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." It may be proper to remark, that the passage of this law was unexpected to the owners of steamvessels,...