Chapter CXIII. *to create an additional Supervising Inspector of Steamboats and two local Inspectors of Steamboats for the Collection District of Memphis, Tennessee, and two local Inspectors for the Collection District of Oregon, and for other Purposes.* June 8, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr
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Chap. CXIII.— An Act *to create an additional Supervising Inspector of Steamboats and two local Inspectors of Steamboats for the Collection District of Memphis, Tennessee, and two local Inspectors for the Collection District of Oregon, and for other Purposes.* June 8, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional supervising inspector of steamboats and local inspectors in Oregon and Tennessee.
That there shall be designated and appointed, in the mode prescribed by law, and who shall be paid the same annual compensation as is now paid, one additional supervising inspector of steamboats, and two local inspectors of steamboats, at Portland, in the collection district of Oregon, and two for the collection district of Pay and duties.Memphis, Tennessee, at an annual compensation of seven hundred dollars, to be paid as provided by law, as in ease of other like inspectors; 1852, ch. 108.Vol. x. p. 61.and said inspectors shall perform the duties and be subject to the provisions of the steamboat act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.
Sec. 2. Authority for two local inspectors at Wheeling, repealed.*And be it further enacted*, That so much of said act as provides for the appointment of two local inspectors of steamboats in the district of Wheeling, on the Ohio River, and for their compensation, is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. Fee for license to engineers and pilots.*And be it further enacted*, That each engineer and pilot, licensed according to the provisions of said act, shall pay for every certificate granted by any inspector or inspectors, the sum of ten dollars, to be accounted for in the mode provided by law.
Sec. 4. Ferry-boat, tugs, and canal-boats to be inspected, where, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That the forty-second section of the act of August thirty, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be so construed as to require the inspection of the hull and boiler, in the manner prescribed by that act, of every vessel propelled in whole or in part by steam, Vol. x. p. 75.and engaged as a ferry-boat, tug or towing-boat, or canal-boat, in all cases where, under the laws of the United States, such vessels may be engaged in the commerce with foreign nations, or among the several states.
Sec. 5. Engineers and pilots of ferry, and tug, &c., boats to be classified.*And be it further enacted*, That all engineers and pilots of ferry-boats, tug-boats, towing-boats, or canal-boats, subject to inspection by this act, shall be classified and licensed in the same manner as are pilots and engineers by said act of August thirty, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. Sec. 6. Fees for inspection of vessels.Vol. x. p. 73.*And be it further enacted*, That, in lieu of the fees for inspection required by the thirty-first section of the act of August thirty, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the following shall be paid:
For each vessel of one 1865, ch. 94, § 2.*Post*, p. 514.hundred tons or under, twenty-five dollars, and in addition thereto for each one hundred tons, over the first one hundred tons, five dollars. Sec. 7. Repeal of inconsistent provisions.*And be it further enacted*, That all parts of the act aforesaid, which are suspended by or are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. Approved, June 8, 1864.