Chapter 549.
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CHAP. 549.— An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to suspend for a period of one year from March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the provisions of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An act to amend sections forty-four hundred and eighty-eight and forty-four hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes, requiring life-saving appliances on steamers,” so far as they relate to steamers plying exclusively upon any of the lakes or bays of the United States;March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Suspension as to lakes, etc., of law requiring line-carrying projectiles on steamers.
That the Secretary’ of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to suspend for a period of one year from the twenty’ ninth day’ of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, so far as they’ relate to steamers plying exclusively upon any of the lakes or bays of the United States, the provisions of an act to amend sections forty-four hundred and eighty’ eight and forty-four hundredR. S., secs. 4488, 4480 p. 868. Vol. 25, p. 1012. and eighty nine of the Revised Statutes, of the United States, approved, March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, requiring line-carrying projectiles and the means of propelling them to be carried on steamers, and the rules*Ante*, p. 33. and regulations relating thereto adopted by the Board of Supervising Inspectors, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury March second eighteen hundred and ninety.
The Secretary’ of the Treasury is hereby directed to make a series of experiments with suchExperiments, etc., of life-saving appliances. line carrying projectiles and the means of propelling them as may’ be submitted, and to report the same to Congress, at the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-second Congress, and also his opinion as to whether necessity exists for such life-saving appliances as are now required by the regulations of the Treasury Department under the aforesaid sections of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and as to what changes, if any, in such law or regulations may be deemed advisable by him to meet the interests of life-saving and the shipping interests alike.
Approved, March 3, 1891.