Chapter 386. To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes so as to permit the transportation by steam vessels of gasoline and other products of petroleum when carried by motor vehicles (commonly known as automobiles) when used as source of motive power
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CHAP. 386.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes so as to permit the transportation by steam vessels of gasoline and other products of petroleum when carried by motor vehicles (commonly known as automobiles) when used as source of motive power. February 20, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Steam passenger vessels. Gasoline, etc., as motive power of automobiles excepted from provision prohibiting transportation of explosives. [R.
S., sec. 4472, p. 865](/us/rs/s4472/p865), amended. That section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes be amended by adding thereto at the end of said section the following: Nothing in the foregoing or following sections of this Act shall prohibit the transportation by steam vessels of gasoline or any of the products of petroleum when carried by motor vehicles (commonly known as automobiles) using the same as a source of motive power: *Provided, however,* That all fire, if any, in such vehicles or automobiles*Provisos*.Fire to be extinguished. be extinguished before entering the said vessel, and that the same be not relighted until after said vehicle shall have left the same: *Provided, further*, That any owner, master, agent, or other person having chargeVessels may refuse transportation. of passenger steam vessels shall have the right to refuse to transport automobile vehicles the tanks of which contain gasoline, naphtha, or other dangerous burning fluids.
Approved, February 20, 1901.