Chapter 55. to amend section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning commerce and navigation and the regulation of steam-vessels
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CHAP. 55.— An Act to amend section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning commerce and navigation and the regulation of steam-vessels.Feb. 11, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Commerce and navigation and regulation of Steam vessels.R. S., Sec. 44:14, p. 859, amended by *proviso* as to thickness of boiler- plates and space between flues.
That section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by adding thereto a proviso, so that the section will read as follows: “Section. 4434. No boiler to which the heat is applied to the outside of the shell thereof shall be constructed of iron or steel plates of more than twenty-six one-hundredths of an inch in thickness, the ends or heads of the boilers only excepted; and every such boiler employed on steam-vessels navigating rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, or their tributaries, shall have not less than three inches space between and Exception as to vessels navigating oceans and great lakes.around its internal flues: *Provided*, That boilers to which the heat is applied to the outside of the, shell thereof, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be authorized and used on steam-vessels navigating the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, or saltwater bays or sounds, or the great lakes, or any of them, and waters flowing to and from the same, or any of them, when constructed of iron or steel plates not exceeding fifty one-hundredths of an inch in thickness”.
Approved, February eleventh, 1885.