Chapter 1453. To amend section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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CHAP. 1453.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 18196](/us/bill/58/hr/18196).] [[Public, No. 186](/us/pl/58/186).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Steamboat-Inspection Service. That section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 4405. Meetings of board; assignment of districts.[R. S., sec, 4405, p. 853](/us/rs/s4405/p853), amended. The supervising inspectors and the Supervising Inspector-General shall assemble as a board once in each year, at the city of Washington, District of Columbia, on the third Wednesday in January, and at such other times as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall prescribe, for joint consultation, and shall assign to each of the super-vising inspectors the limits of territory within which he shall perform Regulations to be approved by Secretary of Commerce and Labor.his duties.
The board shall establish all necessary regulations required to carry out in the most effective manner the provisions of this title, and such regulations, when approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, shall have the force of law. The supervising inspector for the district embracing the Pacific coast shall not be under obligation to attend the meetings of the board of truer than once in two years; but when he does not attend such meeting he shall make his communications thereto, in the way of a report, in such manner as the board *Proviso.*Executive committee authorized.Amendment, etc., of regulations.shall prescribe: *Provided,* That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may at any time call in session, after reasonable public notice, a meeting of an executive committee, to be composed of the Supervising Inspector-General and any two supervising inspectors, which committee, with the approval of the said Secretary, shall have power to alter, amend, add to, or repeal any of the rules and regulations made, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, by the board of supervising inspectors, either by virtue of this section or under any power granted by this title, or any amendments thereof, such alteration, amendment, addition, or repeal, when approved by the said Secretary, to have the force of law, and to continue in effect until thirty days after the adjournment of the next meeting of the board of supervising inspectors.Use of instruments for security of life.[R.
S., sec., 4491, p. 868](/us/rs/s4491/p868). The foregoing powers of such executive committee, acting with the said Secretary, shall also extend to the approval of the instruments, machines, and equipments referred to in section forty-four hundred and ninety-one of this title.” " Sec. 2. Effect. That this Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and five. Approved, March 3, 1905.