Chapter 892. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five
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CHAP. 892.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five. February 8, 1907. [[H. R. 17624](/us/bill/59/hr/22584).] [[Public, No. 68](/us/pl/59/68).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That an Act entitled “An Act Steamboat-Inspection Service.Vol. 33, p. 1022.to amend section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word “title” and before the word “And” the words “including regulations governing the use of whistles as signals by steam vessels and prohibiting useless and unnecessary whistling,” so that the same shall read as follows:
" “Sec. 4405. The supervising inspectors and the Supervising Inspector-General Meetings of board, assignment of districts.Vol. 33, p. 1022, amended.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 supervising inspectors the limits of territory within which he shall perform his duties.
The board shall establish all necessary Regulations.regulations required to carry out in the most effective manner the provisions of this title and also regulations, prohibiting useless and Whistling restricted added.unnecessary whistling, 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 oftener than once m two years: but when he does not attend such meeting he shall make his communications thereto, in the wav of a report, in such manner as the board shall prescribe: *Provided*, That the Secretary of *Proviso.*Executive committee authorized.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 Amendment, etc., of regulations.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.
The foregoing powers of such executive com882Use of instruments for security of life.[R. S., sec. 4491, p. 868](/us/rs/s4491/p868).mittee, 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.” " Approved, February 8, 1907.