Volume 29
Public Law 54–61
Providing for certain requirements for vessels propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or electric motors.
Approved January 18, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
Providing for certain requirements for vessels propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or electric motors.
Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all vessels of above fifteen
Vessels propelled by gas, electricity, etc.
tons burden, carrying freight or passengers for hire, propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or electric motors, shall be, and are hereby, made subject
Inspection, etc. required.
R. S., sec. 4220, p. 858.
to all the provisions of section forty-four hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the inspection of hulls and boilers and requiring engineers and pilots; and all vessels
Subject to rules for vessels passing.
R. S., sec. 4212, p. 854.
so propelled, without regard to tonnage or use, shall be subject to the provisions of section forty-four hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the regulation of steam vessels in passing each other; and to so much of sections forty-two hundred and thirty-three and forty-two
Regulation of machinery.
R. S., secs. 4233, 4234, p. 859.
Vol. 28, p. 690.
hundred arid thirty-four of the Revised Statutes, relating to lights, tog signals, steering, and sailing rules, as the Board of Supervising Inspectors shall, by their regulations, deem applicable and practicable for their safe navigation.
Approved, .