Chapter 586. To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes so as to remove certain restrictions upon the transportation by steam vessels of gasoline and other products of petroleum when carried by motor vehicles (commonly known as automobiles) using the same as a source of motive po
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CHAP. 586.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes so as to remove certain restrictions upon the transportation by steam vessels of gasoline and other products of petroleum when carried by motor vehicles (commonly known as automobiles) using the same as a source of motive power. February 18, 1905. [[S. 6425](/us/bill/58/s/6425).] [[Public, No. 79](/us/pl/58/79).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Steam passenger vessels.
Prohibition of gasoline, etc., on. Vol. 31, p. 799, amended. That the amendment to section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes, approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, be amended to read as follows: " Automobiles using gasoline, etc., excepted. *Post*, p. 1032. “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: *Provisos*.
Fire restrictions changed. *Provided, however*, That all fire, if any, in such vehicles or automobiles be extinguished immediately after entering the said vessel, and that the same be not relighted until immediately before said vehicle shall Transportation may be refused. leave the vessel: *Provided further*, That any owner, master, agent, or other person having charge 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 18, 1905.