Chapter 1372. To amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, inspectors of hulls and boilers of steam vessels
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CHAP. 1372.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, inspectors of hulls and boilers of steam vessels. April 9, 1906. [[S. 4300](/us/bill/34/s/4300).] [[Public, No. 89](/us/pl/34/89).] *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 fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 4414. Inspectors of hulls and boilers.[R. S., sec. 4414, p. 854, amended](/us/rs/s4414/p854).Collection districts.Vol. 33, p. 1026.There shall be in each of the following collection districts, namely, the districts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Francisco, California: New London, Connecticut; Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan: Chicago, Illinois; Bangor. Maine; New Haven. Connecticut; Michigan, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Willamette, Oregon; Puget Sound, Washington;
Savannah. Georgia; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Oswego, New York: Charleston, South Carolina; Duluth. Minnesota; Superior, Michigan; Apalachicola, Florida; Galveston, Texas; Mobile. Alabama; Providence, Rhode Island, and in each of the following ports: New York, New York; Jacksonville, Florida; Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Norfolk, Virginia; Evansville. Indiana; Dubuque, Iowa; Louisville, Kentucky; Albany, New York; Cincinnati.
Ohio; Memphis. Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Saint Louis, Juneau and Saint Michael, Alaska, and Point Pleasant, W. Va., added.Missouri; Port Huron, Michigan: New Orleans, Louisiana; Juneau, Alaska: Saint Michael, Alaska; Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Burlington, Vermont, one inspector of hulls and one inspector of boilers. Salaries.“The inspectors of hulls and the inspectors of boilers in the districts and ports enumerated in the preceding paragraph shall be entitled to the following salaries, to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, namely:
“For the port of New York, New York, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per year for each local inspector. “For the districts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; San Francisco, California, and Puget Sound, Washington, and the ports of Boston, Massachusetts; Buffalo, New York, and New Orleans, Louisiana, at the rate of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per year for each local inspector. “For the districts of Michigan, Michigan; Milwaukee.
Wisconsin; Duluth, Minnesota; Providence, Rhode Island; Chicago, Illinois, and the ports of Albany. New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Portland. Maine; Juneau. Alaska: Saint Michael, Alaska, and Norfolk, Virginia, at the rate of two thousand dollars per year for each local inspector. “For the districts of Oswego, New York; Willamette. Oregon; Detroit, Michigan, and Mobile, Alabama, and the ports of Saint Louis, Missouri, and Port Huron. Michigan, at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year for each local inspector.
“For the districts of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; New Haven, Connecticut; Savannah, Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; Galveston, Texas; New London, Connecticut; Superior, Michigan; Bangor, Maine, and Apalachicola, Florida, and the ports of Dubuque, Iowa; Toledo, Ohio; Evansville, Indiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; 107Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Burlington, Vermont; Jacksonville, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per year for each local inspector.
“And in addition the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may appoint,Assistant inspectors. Salaries. in districts or ports where there are two hundred and twenty-five steamers and upward to be inspected annually, assistant inspectors, at a salary, for the port of New York, of two thousand dollars a year each; for the port of New Orleans. Louisiana; the districts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; the ports of Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois, and the district of San Francisco, California, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per year each, and for all other districts and ports at a salary not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars a year each; and he may appoint a clerk to any suchClerk’s salary increased. board at a compensation not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars a year to each person so appointed.
Every inspector provided forMileage, etc. in this or the preceding sections of this title shall be paid his actual and reasonable traveling expenses, or mileage, at the rate of five cents a mile, incurred in the. performance of his duties, together with bis actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. “Assistant inspectors, appointed as provided by law, shall performDuties. such duties of actual inspection as may be assigned to them under the direction, supervision, and control of the local inspectors.
“And the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may from time to timeDetail. detail said assistant inspectors of one port or district for service in any other port or district, as the needs of the Steamboat-Inspection Service may, in his discretion, require, and the actual and reasonable traveling expenses or mileage of assistant inspectors so detailed shall, subject to such limitations as the said Secretary may in his discretion prescribe, be paid in the same manner as provided in this section for inspectors.
” " Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect and be in force on and afterEffect. the first day of May, nineteen hundred and six. Approved, April 9, 1906.