Chapter 402. To amend section forty-four hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 402.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 16877](/us/bill/61/hr/16877).][[Public, No. 284](/us/pl/61/284).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section forty-four Steamboat-Inspection Service. Inspection certificates. hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, be, and it is hereby, further amended, so as to read as follows, to wit:
" “Sec. 4421. When the inspection of a steam vessel is completed Certificates of inspection. R. S., sec. 4421, p. 857, amended. Vol. 34, p. 230, amended. and the inspectors approve the vessel and her equipment throughout, they shall make and subscribe a certificate to the collector or other chief officer of the customs of the district in which such inspection has been made, in accordance with the form and regulations prescribed by the board of supervising inspectors. Such certificate shall be verified by the oaths of inspectors signing it, before the chief officer of the customs of the district or any other person competent by law to administer oaths.
If the inspectors refuse to grant a certificate of approval, they shall make a statement in writing, and sign the same, giving the reasons for their disapproval. Upon such inspection and Temporary certificate. approval the inspectors shall also make and subscribe a temporary certificate, which shall set forth substantially the fact of such inspection and approval, and shall deliver the same to the master or owner of the vessel, and shall keep a copy thereof on file in their office.
Exhibition of certificates. R. S., sec. 4423, p. 857. Form, etc. R. S., sec. 4405, p. 853. The said temporary certificate shall be carried and exposed by vessels in the same manner as is provided in section forty-four hundred and twenty-three for copies of the regular certificate, and the form thereof and the period during which it is to be in force shall be as prescribed by the board of supervising inspectors, or the executive committee thereof, as provided in section forty-four hundred and five.
And such temporary Substitute for regular certificate. certificate, during such period and prior to the delivery to the master or owner of the copies of the regular certificate, shall take the place of, and be a substitute for, such copies of the regular certificate of inspection, as required by sections forty-four hundred and twenty-three, R. S., secs. 4423, 4424, 4426, pp. 857, 858. forty-four hundred and twenty-four, and forty-four hundred and twenty-six, and for the purposes of said sections, and shall also, 832 during such period, be a substitute for the regular certificate of R.
S., sec. 4498, p. 869. inspection, as required by section forty-four hundred and ninety-eight, and for the purposes of said section until such regular certificate of inspection has been filed with the collector or other chief officer of Revocation. R. S., sec. 4453, p. 862. Restriction. customs. Such temporary certificate shall also be subject to revocation in the manner and under the conditions provided in section forty-four hundred and fifty-three. No vessel required to be inspected under the provisions of this title shall be navigated without having on board an unexpired regular certificate of inspection or such temporary *Provisos*.
Completing voyage after certificate expires. certificate: *Provided, however*, That any such vessel, operated upon a regularly established line from a port of the United States to a port of a foreign country not contiguous to the United States, whose certificate of inspection expires at sea, or while said vessel is in a foreign port or a port of the Philippine Islands or Hawaii, may lawfully complete her voyage without the regular certificate of inspection or the temporary certificate required by this section, and no liability for penalties imposed by this title for want of such certificate shall be Condition. incurred until her voyage shall have been completed: *Provided*, That said voyage shall be so completed within thirty days after the expiration When certificate expires within 15 days of sailing date. of said certificate or temporary certificate: *Provided further*, That no such vessel whose certificate of inspection shall expire within fifteen days of the date of her sailing shall proceed upon her voyage to such port of a foreign country not contiguous to the United States without first having procured a new certificate of inspection or the temporary certificate required by this section.
” " Approved, June 25, 1910.