Chapter 23. To amend section forty-four hundred of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to a reciprocal recognition of boiler-inspection certificates between the several maritime nations having marine-inspection laws
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CHAP. 23.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to a reciprocal recognition of boiler-inspection certificates between the several maritime nations having marine-inspection laws. February 15, 1902.[[Public, No. 14](/us/pl/57/14).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section forty-four hundred Steam vessels. R. S., sec. 4400, p. 852, amended.of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the Tinted States be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to said section, as 35amended by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred Vol. 22, p. 346;
Vol. 28, p. 699.and ninety-five, chapter one hundred and forty-six, page six hundred and ninety-nine, volume twenty-eight, United States Statutes at Large, third session Fifty-third Congress, after the word “aforesaid,” a provision as follows: *Provided further,* That when such foreign passenger *Proviso.* Reciprocal acceptance of foreign boiler inspection. Conditions.steamers belong to countries having inspection laws approximating those of the United States, and have unexpired certificates of inspection issued by the proper authorities in the respective countries to which they belong, they shall subject to no other inspection than necessary to satisfy the local inspectors that the condition of the vessel, her boilers, and life-saving equipments are as stated in the current certificate of inspection; but no such certificate of inspection shall he accepted as evidence of lawful inspection except when presented by steam vessels of other countries which have by their laws accorded to the steam vessels of the United States visiting such countries the same privilege accorded herein to the steam vessels of such countries visiting the United States: it being further provided that there shall be Fees.collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States the same fees for the inspection of foreign passenger steamers carrying passengers from the United States that any foreign tuition shall charge the merchant vessels of the United States trading to the ports of such nationality: it being further provided that the Secretary of the Treasury shall have the power to waive at any time the collection of such fees upon due notice of the proper authorities of any country concerned that the collection of fees for the inspection of American steam merchant vessels has been discontinued.
Approved, February 15, 1902.