Chapter 10. To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the carrying of dangerous articles on passenger steamers
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CHAP. 10.— An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the carrying of dangerous articles on passenger steamers.January 24, 1913.[[H. R. 23001](/us/bill/62/hr/23001).][[Public, No. 349](/us/pl/62/349).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Passenger steamers. Dangerous articles not to be carried on.[R. S., sec. 4472, p. 865, amended](/us/rs/sec4472/p865).Vol. 33, p. 1031;
Vol. 34, p. 204. That section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and by the Act of May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, be further amended by substituting a colon for the period at the end of said section as amended and adding thereto the *Provisos*.Gasoline in motor lifeboats allowed.following proviso: “*Provided further*, That nothing in the foregoing or following sections of this Act shall prohibit the use, by steam vessels carrying passengers for hire, of lifeboats equipped with gasoline motors, and tanks containing gasoline for the operation of said Restriction.motor-driven lifeboats: *Provided, however*, That no gasoline shall be carried other than that in the tanks of the lifeboats: *Provided further*, That the use of such lifeboats equipped with gasoline motors shall be under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the board of supervising inspectors with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
” Approved, January 24, 1913.