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R. S., 4411.

R. S., 4414.
Mar. 1, 1895.

Mar. 2, 1895.

journal; and the board shall, as far as possible, correct mistakes where they exist.

The board of supervising inspectors shall establish such regulations as may be necessary to make known in a proper manner, to local inspectors, the names of all persons licensed under the provisions of this Title [R. S. 4399–4500], the names of all persons from whom licenses have been withheld, and the names of all whose licenses have been suspended or revoked; also the names of all steam-vessels neglecting or refusing to make such repairs as may be ordered pursuant to law, and the names of all that have been refused certificates of inspection.

There shall be, in each of the following collection districts, one inspector of hulls and one inspector of boilers, namely: The districts of New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Francisco, California; Albany, New York; New London, Connecticut; Baltimore, Maryland; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; New Orleans, Louisiana; Norfolk, Virginia; Saint Louis, Missouri; Dubuque, Iowa; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Jacksonville, Florida; Bangor, Maine; New Haven, Connecticut; Michigan, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Port Huron, Michigan; Willamette, Oregon; Portland, Maine; Puget Sound, Washington; Savannah, Georgia; Pittsburg, Pennsyl vania; Oswego, New York; Charleston, South Carolina; Duluth, Minnesota; Louisville, Kentucky; Evansville, Indiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Cincinnati, Ohio; Gallipolis, Ohio; Wheeling, West Virginia; Apr. 21, 1898. Superior, Michigan; Burlington, Vermont; Apalachicola, Florida; Galveston, Texas; Mobile, Alabama; Alaska; and Providence, Rhode Island.

Mar. 1, 1895.
Sec. 2.

Secs. 4, 10.

The inspector of hulls and the inspector of boilers in the districts enumerated in the preceding paragraph shall be Feb. 14, 1903. entitled to the following salaries, to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, namely: In districts inspecting one hundred steamers and less to a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per year each.

In districts inspecting over one hundred and less than one hundred and fifty steamers, to a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per year each.

In districts inspecting one hundred and fifty and less than two hundred steamers, to a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year each.

In districts inspecting two hundred and less than three hundred steamers, to a salary of two thousand dollars per year each.

In districts inspecting three hundred and less than five hundred steamers, to a salary of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per year each.

In districts inspecting five hundred steamers and upward, to a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per year each.

Feb. 14, 1903.

The Supervising Inspector-General shall report to the Mar. 1, 1895. Secretary of Commerce and Labor the number of inspections for the year next preceding the approval of this Act and thereafter, at the end of each fiscal year, the number of steamers inspected in each local district in that year, which number shall be the basis upon which shall be determined the salaries to be paid to local inspectors for the following fiscal year, in the ratio described in the preceding paragraphs of this section. And, in addition, the Secre tary of Commerce and Labor may appoint, upon the nomination of the supervising inspector of the district, in collection districts where there are two hundred and twentyfive steamers and upward to be inspected annually, assistant inspectors, at a salary, for the district of New York, of two thousand dollars a year each; for the district of New Orleans, Louisiana; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per year each; and for all other districts at a salary not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars a year each; and he may appoint a clerk to any such board at a compensation not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars a year to each person so appointed. Every in- Feb. 15, 1897. spector provided for in this or the preceding sections of this Title [R. S., 4399-4500] shall be paid his actual and reasonable traveling expenses or mileage at the rate of five cents a mile incurred in the performance of his duties, together with his actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

Whenever any vacancy occurs in any local board of R. S., 4415. inspectors, or whenever local inspectors are to be appointed for a new district, [the supervising inspectors shall notify the collector or other chief officer of the customs for the district, and the judge of the district court for the district Jan. 16, 1883. in which such appointment is to be made, who, together with the supervising inspector, shall meet together as a board of designators, and fill the vacant or new inspectorship. Such board, or the major part thereof,] when designating an inspector of hulls, shall select a person of good character and suitable qualifications and attainments to perform the services required of inspectors of hulls, and who, from his practical knowledge of ship-building and navigation and the uses of steam in navigation, is fully competent to make a reliable estimate of the strength, seaworthiness, and other qualities of the hulls of steamvessels and their equipment, deemed essential to safety of life in their navigation; and when designating an inspector of boilers, shall select a person of good character and suitable qualifications and attainments to perform the services required of inspectors of boilers, who, from hist knowledge and experience of the duties of an engineer employed in navigating vessels by steam, and also of the

Feb. 14, 1903.

Secs. 4, 10.

R. S., 4416.

R. S., 4459.

Feb. 14, 1903.
Secs. 4, 10.

R. S., 4460.

Feb. 14, 1903.

Secs. 4, 10.

R. S., 4461.

construction and use of boilers, and machinery, and appurtenances therewith connected, is able to form a reliable opinion of the strength, form, workmanship, and suitableness of boilers and machinery to be employed without hazard to life, from imperfection in the material, workmanship, or arrangement of any part of such apparatus for steaming. No appointment of an inspector of hulls or boilers shall be made without the concurrence of the supervising inspector. The inspector of hulls and the inspector of boilers [thus designated,] when approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall, from the date of designation, constitute a board of local inspectors.

No person interested, either directly or indirectly, in any patented article required to be used on any steamer by this Title [R. S., 4399-4500], or who is a member of any association of owners, masters, engineers, or pilots of steamboats, or who is directly or indirectly pecuniarily interested in any steam-vessel, or who has not the qualifications and requirements prescribed by this Title, or who is intemperate in his habits, shall be eligible to hold the office of either supervising or local inspector, or to discharge the duties thereof; and if any such person shall attempt to exercise the functions of the office of either inspector, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars, and shall be dismissed from office.

Every supervising and local inspector of steamboats shall execute a proper bond, to be approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 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.

The Secretary of Commerce and Labor 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.

The salaries of the supervising inspector-general, of all supervising inspectors, local inspectors, assistant inspectors, and clerks, provided for by this Title [R. S., 4399-4500], together with their traveling and other expenses when on official duty, and all instruments, books, blanks, stationery, June 19, 1886. 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 Commerce and Labor.

Feb. 14, 1903.

Secs. 4, 10.

R. S., 4462.

Feb. 14, 1903.
Secs. 4, 10.

R. S., 4455.

The Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall make such regulations as may be necessary to secure the proper execution of this Title [R. S., 4399-4500].

The inspectors of one district shall not modify or annul the doings of the inspectors of another district in regard to repairs, unless there is a change in the state of things, demanding more repairs than were thought necessary when

the order was made. Nor shall the inspectors of one district license a person coming from another district, if such person has been rejected for unfitness or want of qualifications. The local board of inspectors, when so requested in R. S., 4456. writing by any master or owner, shall, under the direction of the supervising inspector, inspect steamers in other collection districts where no such board is established; and if a certificate of approval is not granted, no other inspection shall be made by the same or any other board until the objections made by such local board and unreversed by the supervising inspector of the district, are removed. Nothing in this section shall impair the right of the inspectors to permit such vessel to go to another port for repairs, if in their opinion it can be done with safety.

The local inspectors shall keep a record of certificates of R. S., 4457. inspection of vessels, their boilers, engines, and machinery, and of all their acts in their examination and inspection of steamers, whether of approval or disapproval; and when a certificate of approval is recorded, the original shall be delivered to the collector or other chief officer of the customs of the district. They shall also keep a like record of certificates authorizing gunpowder to be carried as freight by any steamer carrying passengers, and of all licenses granted to masters, mates, pilots, and engineers, and of all refusals of the same, of all suspensions and revocations of license, of all refusals, suspensions, or revocations of which they shall receive notices from other districts; and shall report to the supervising inspector of their respective districts, in writing, their decisions in cases of refusal of licenses, or of the suspension or revocation thereof, and all testimony received by them in such proceedings. They shall also report promptly to such supervising inspector all violations of the steamboat-laws that come to their knowledge. They shall also keep an accurate account of every steamer boarded by them during the year; and of all their official acts and doings, which, in the form of a report, they shall communicate to the supervising inspector of the district, at such times as the board of supervising inspectors, by their established rules, shall direct.

Every inspector who willfully certifies falsely touching R. S., 4425. any steam-vessel, as to her hull, accommodations, boilers, engines, machinery, or their appurtenances, or any of her equipments, or any matter or thing contained in any certificate signed and sworn to by him, shall be punished by fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.

Every inspector of steamboats who, upon any pretense, R. S., 5482. receives any fee or reward for his services, except what is allowed to him by law, shall forfeit his office, and be otherwise punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not more than six months, or by both.

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R. S., 4802. Mar. 3, 1875. Jan. 4, 1889. July 1, 1902.

July 1, 1902.
Sec. 4.

July 1, 1902.
Sec. 9.

Feb. 15, 1893.
Sec. 12

Mar. 3, 1901

448. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.

The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall, from time to time, appoint a surgeon to act as surgeon-general of the public health and marinehospital service, who shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, supervise all matters connected with the public health and marine-hospital service, and with the disbursement of the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen. He shall be entitled to a salary, paid out of the marine-hospital fund, of five thousand dollars a year, and to his necessary traveling expenses. And he shall make monthly reports to the Secretary of the Treasury.

Medical officers of the public health and marine-hospital service of the United States shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and no person shall be so appointed until after passing a satisfactory examination in the several branches of medi cine, surgery and hygiene before a board of medical officers of the said service. Said examination shall be conducted according to rules prepared by the surgeon-general and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and the President. Original appointments in the service shall only be made to the rank of assistant surgeon; and no officer shall be promoted to the rank of past assistant surgeon until after four years' service and a second examination as aforesaid; and no past assistant surgeon shall be promoted to be surgeon until after due examination.

The Surgeon-General is authorized to cause the detail of two surgeons and two past assistant surgeons for duty in the bureau, who shall each receive the pay and allowances of their respective grades in the general service.

The President is authorized, in his discretion, to utilize the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service in times of threatened or actual war to such extent and in such manner as shall in his judgment promote the public interest without, however, in any wise impairing the efficiency of the service for the purposes for which the same was created and is maintained.

The President shall from time to time prescribe rules for the conduct of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. He shall also prescribe regulations respecting its internal administration and discipline, and the uniforms of its officers and employees. It shall be the duty of the Surgeon-General to transmit annually to the Secretary of the Treasury, for transmission by said Secretary to Congress, a full and complete report of the transactions of said service, including a detailed statement of receipts and disbursements.

The medical officers of the United States, duly clothed with authority to act as quarantine officers at any port or place within the United States, and when performing the said duties, are hereby authorized to take declarations and

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