Chapter 755. relating to the licensing of vessels engaged in towing, to carry persons in addition to their crews
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CHAP. 755.— An Act relating to the licensing of vessels engaged in towing, to carry persons in addition to their crews.July 9, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Steam tow boats allowed to carry of her persons than their crows; limitation.R. S., see. 4252, p. 820. That any steam-vessel engaged in the business of towing vessels, rafts, or water craft of any kind, and not carrying passengers, may be authorized and licensed by the supervising inspector of the district in which said steamer shall be employed, to carry on board such number of persons, in addition to its crew, as the supervising inspector in his judgment, shall deem necessary to carry on the legitimate business of such towing steamers, not exceeding, however, one person to every net ton of measurement of said steamer: *Provided, however*, That the person so allowed to be carried shall not be*Proviso.*Not to charge therefor.Life-preservers. carried Cor hire.
Sec. 2. That every steam-vessel licensed under the foregoing section shall carry and have on board, in accessible places, one life-preserver tor every person allowed to be carried, in addition to those provided for the crew of such vessel. Sec. 3. That steam-vessels of one hundred tons burden or under,Certain steam vessels may carry excursions, etc., without having bulkheads. engaged in the coastwise bays and harbors of the United States, may be licensed by the United States local inspectors of steam-vessels to carry passengers or excursions on the ocean or upon the Great Lakes of the North or Northwest, not exceeding fifteen miles from the mouth of such bays or harbors, without being required to have the three watertight cross-bulkheads provided by section forty-four hundred andR.
S., sec. 4490, p. 868.*Proviso.* ninety of the Revised Statutes for other passenger steamers: *Provided, *That in the judgment of the local inspector such steamers shall be safe and suitable for such navigation without danger to human life, and that they shall have one watertight collision bulkhead not less than five feet abaft the stem of said steamer. Approved, July 9, 1886.