Chapter 231. To amend “An Act to amend ‘An Act to amend section forty-four hundred of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning the regulation of steam vessels.’ approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,” and also to amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen, ti
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CHAP. 231.— An Act To amend “An Act to amend ‘An Act to amend section forty-four hundred of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning the regulation of steam vessels.’ approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,” and also to amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen, title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes, “Regulation of steam vessels.” February 15, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That “An Act to amend ‘An Steam vessels.
Inspectors of hulls and boilers. R. S., 4414, p. 854, amended.Act to amend section forty-four hundred of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning the regulation of steam vessels,’ approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two;” and also to amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen, title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes, “Regulation of steam vessels,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the last paragraph of section two, page three hundred and ninety nine, Supplement to Revised Statutes, volume two, be amended so that it will read as follows:
Mileage allowance reduced. "“Every inspector provided for in this or the preceding sections of this title shall be paid his actual and reasonable traveling expenses or mileage, at the rate of rive cents a mile, incurred in the performance of his duties, together with his actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of the Treasury.”" Approved, February 15, 1897.