Chapter 3919. To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, regulation of steam vessels
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CHAP. 3919.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, regulation of steam vessels. June 30, 1906. [[S. 4298](/us/bill/59/s/4298).] [[Public, No. 388](/us/pl/59/388).] *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.Fire protection.and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and it is hereby, amended by striking out after the words “ is afloat,” and before the words “Every steamer,” the words “and no tire pump thus provided for shall be placed below the lower deck of the vessel.” so that said section when amended shall read as follows:
" “Sec. 4471. Every steamer permitted by her certificate of inspection Fire pump, etc., required.[R. S., sec. 4471. p. 865, amended](/us/rs/s4471/p865).Steam pump.to carry as many as fifty passengers, or upward, and every steamer carrying passengers, which also carries cotton, hay, or hemp, shall be provided with a good double-acting steam fire-pump, or other equivalent apparatus for throwing water. Such pump or other apparatus for throwing water shall be kept at all times and at all seasons of the year in good order and ready for immediate use, having at least two pipes of suitable dimensions, one on each side of the vessel, to convey the water to the upper decks, to which pipes there shall be attached, by means of stop cocks or valves, both between decks and on the upper deck, good and suitable hose of sufficient strength to stand a pressure of not less than one hundred pounds to the square inch, long enough to reach to all parts of the vessel and properly provided with nozzles, and kept in good order and ready for immediate service.
Every Hand pump.steamer exceeding two hundred tons burden and carrying passengers shall be provided with two good double-acting fire pumps, to be worked by hand; each chamber of such pumps, except pumps upon steamers in service on the twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be of sufficient capacity to contain not less than one hundred cubic inches of water; and such pumps shall be placed in the most suitable parts of the vessel for efficient service, having suitable well-fitted hose to each pump, of at least one-half inch vessel in length, kept at all times in perfect order, and shipped up and ready for immediate use.
On every steamer not exceeding two hundred tons, one of such pumps may be dispensed with. Each fire pump Location requirement modified.thus prescribed shall be supplied with water by means of a suitable pipe connected therewith, and passing through the side of the vessel so low as to be at all times under water when she is afloat. Every steamer shall also be provided with a pump which shall be of sufficient strength and suitably arranged to test the boilers thereof.” " Approved, June 30, 1906.