Chapter 315. To amend sections eleven and twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks and to enable it to
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CHAP. 315.— An Act To amend sections eleven and twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one. March 4, 1909.[[H. R. 23468](/us/bill/70/hr/23468).][[Public, No. 344](/us/pl/70/344).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That sections eleven andDistrict of Columbia.Potomac River tugboats to be equipped with adjustable smokestacks, etc.Vol. 31, p. 772, amended. twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same are hereby, amended so as to require all tugboats using the Potomac River at the place or places where the same is spanned by the two certain bridges in said Act provided for, namely, the new railway bridge and the new highway bridge, to equip and fit, not later than July first, nineteen hundred and nine, all smokestacks thereof or other vertical projections with hinges or other mechanical device so as to permit the same to be lowered to the level of the*Provisos.*Exemptions. top of the pilot house of such boats: *Provided*, That all such tugboats the pilot house of which will not pass under such bridges may be exempted from the operations of the provisions hereof, upon application made to the Secretary of War and his approval thereof: *Provided further*, That all tugboats hereafter built or purchased, orDimensions of, to be approved by Secretary of War. not now actually engaged in business on the Potomac River at the places aforesaid, must have their dimensions approved by the Secretary of War before being permitted to use and operate the same on the Potomac River at the places above mentioned: *And provided further*, That the provisions hereof shall not apply to such tugboatsExceptions. as may, by reason of their structure, be able to pass under said two bridges, respectively, without the necessity of operating the draws thereof.
Approved, March 4, 1909.