Chapter 814. To provide for the inspection of the boilers of the Alvena and Ailsa
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CHAP. 814.— An Act To provide for the inspection of the boilers of the Alvena and Ailsa. June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the “Alvena” and “Alisa.”Issue of certificate of inspection authorized for foreign-built boilers of.Treasury be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the inspection of the five foreign-built boilers taken from the wrecks Alvena and Ailsa. in New York Harbor in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and purchased from the United States by John W.
Chittenden, of New York, and to direct the issue of the usual certificate of inspection, whether said boilers are or are not constructed pursuant to the laws of the United States, or whether they are or are not constructed of iron stamped pursuant to said laws. The tests in the inspection of such boilers shall be the same in all respects as to strength and safety as are required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United States for marine, purposes: *Provided*, That in the inspection *Proviso.*Inspectionof these boilers to ascertain their fitness for marine purposes the owners thereof shall cause the tubes to be removed in order to permit the inspectors of steam vessels to make the fullest examination of the interior of said boilers.
Approved, June 6, 1900.