General Rules And Regulations Prescribed By The Board Of Supervising Inspectors As Amended January 1907 PDF Download

Excerpt from General Rules and Regulations Prescribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors as Amended January, 1907: Amendments Approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, February 25, 1907 At the regular annual meeting of the Board of Supervising Inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, held in Washington, D. C., in January and February, 1907, in pursuance of section 4405, Revised Statutes of the United States, amendments were made to sections 2, Rule I; 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 29, and 30, Rule II; 1, 3, 9, 10, 11, 15, 20, 25, 28, and 29, Rule III; 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 13, and 14, Rule IV; 3, 14, 28, 35, 36, 39, and 50, Rule V; 4, Rule VIII; 6, Rule IX; 4 and 12 (new), Rule X, of the General Rules and Regulations. These amendments to the rules, having received the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, have now the force or law, as provided in section 4405, Revised Statutes, and must be observed accordingly. The pilot rules for all waters were amended by the Board and approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, which amended rules shall be effective on and after July 1, 1907, on and after which date the pilot rules for the inland waters of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts shall not apply on the Mississippi River below New Orleans, but shall be superseded for those waters by the pilot rules for western rivers. The acts of the executive committee of the Board of Supervising Inspectors, in the meetings of June and October, 1906, as approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, were ratified by the Board, winch action of the Board has been approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The rules for lights to be carried by ferryboats and by barges and canal boats in tow on the inland waters of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts will be published as a separate form, two copies of which shall be kept on board and posted on steam and motor vessels on the inland waters of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, on and after July 1, 1907, as required for new pilot rules, and in accordance with section 2 of act of Congress approved June 7, 1897. The life-saving and other equipments approved by the Board at this meeting, which also receiver! the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the authority of section 4491, Revised Statutes, and pipe boilers approved by the Board at this meeting, under the provisions of section 4429, Revised Statutes, are included in the list of "Instruments, machines, and equipments approved for use on vessels," and list of approved boilers, in this publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.