Chapter 16. To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty, Title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to inspection of iron or steel boiler plates
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CHAP. 16.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty, Title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to inspection of iron or steel boiler plates.January 22, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Inspection of boiler plates.[R. S. sec. 4430, p. 858, amended](/us/rs/t/4430/p858). That section forty-four hundred and thirty of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by adding thereto a paragraph, as follows:
" “And the Supervising Inspector-General may, under the directionInspection at mills. of the Secretary of the Treasury, detail assistant inspectors from any local inspection district where assistant inspectors are employed, to inspect iron or steel boiler plates at the mills where the same, are manufactured; and if the plates are found in accordance with the rules of Stamp.the supervising inspectors, the assistant inspector shall stamp the same with the initials of his name, followed by the letters and words, ‘ Acceptance of stamped material.U.
S. Assistant Inspector;’ and material so stamped shall be accepted by the local inspectors in the districts where such material is to be manufactured into marine boilers as being in full compliance with the requirements of this section regarding the inspection of boiler plates; Penalty for forging; etc., stamp.it being further provided that any person who affixes any false, forged, fraudulent, spurious, or counterfeit of the stamp herein authorized to be put on by an assistant inspector, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be lined not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned not less than two years nor more than five years.
” " Approved, January 22, 1894.