hundred and fifty copies, one dollar and twenty-that if the said canal shall not be commenced five cents per page, and at the same rate for any number not exceeding fifteen hundred copies. THIRD. For tabular statements of the orders of the day, lists of yeas and nays, circular letters, and miscellaneous printing ordered by Congress, not hereinbefore specified-For composition for plain work, per thousand ems, fifty cents. For rule and figure work, fifty cents per thousand ems. For presswork, folding, and stitching, one hundred copies, per page For royal octavo, or any smaller size, ten cents. within three, and completed within ten years, Michigan shall be bound to pay to the United States the amount which may be received upon the sale of any part of said lands by said State not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the title to the purchasers under said State remaining valid; that the Legislature of said State shall cause to be kept an accurate account of the sales and net proceeds of the lands hereby granted, and of all expenditures in the construction, repairs, and operating of said canal, and of the earnings thereof, and shall return a statement of the same annually to the Secretary of the Interior; and whenever said State shall be fully reimbursed for all advances made for the construction, repairs, and operating of said canal, with legal interest on all advances, until the reimbursement of the same, or upon payment by the United States of any balance of such advances over such When the number exceeds ten thousand, and receipts from said lands and canal, with such indoes not exceed twenty thousand, five per cen-terest, the said State shall be allowed to tax for For foolscap and any larger size, twenty cents. But the following deductions shall be made from the presswork, folding, and stitching additional numbers to the number usually ordered by Congress, of matter included in the foregoing specifications, to wit: When the number ordered exceeds five thousand, and does not exceed ten thousand, two per centum. tum. per centum. When the number exceeds twenty thousand, forty The presswork, folding, and stitching, of all printing not herein provided for, shall be done by the ream-the rates shall be two dollars per ream when printed on one side, and four dollars per ream when printed on both sides; when any amount less than one ream is ordered, it shall be counted and settled for as one ream. The Act farther provides, that the same prices shall be paid for printing for the Executive Departments, that are paid for printing for Congress, except for printing post-bills, which shall be printed on paper not less than sixteen by twenty-six inches, and for printing on parchment. There shall be paid for printing the post-bills at the rate of one dollar per thousand sheets, and at the rate of ten dollars per thousand for printing parchment. The heads of departments may employ printers out of Washington, to do such printing as may be required for use out of that city, provided it can be done at the rates specified above. A joint printing committee, composed of three members of each House of Congress, shall have power to decide all questions of dispute or difference between the public printers and the Superintendent, and shall pass upon the Superinten dent's accounts. All motions to print extra copics of any bill, report, or other public document, shall be referred to the members of the Committee on Printing from the House in which the same may be made. An Act granting to the State of Michigan the right of way and a donation of Public Land, for the construction of a Ship Canal around the Falls of St. Mary's, in said State-Grants to Michigan the right of way through the military reservation at St. Mary's, 400 feet in width, for a ship-canal, which shall be 100 feet wide and twelve feet deep, with locks 250 feet long, and 60 feet wide. The Act farther grants to Michigan, to aid in the construction of said canal, seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of public lands, to be selected in subdivisions, agreeably to the United States surveys, by an agent or agents, to be appointed by the Governor of said State, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, from any lands within said State subject to private entry. The canal shall remain a public highway for the use of the United States, free from toll or other charge on Government vessels. It is further provided, the use of said canal only such tolls as shall be sufficient to pay all necessary expenses for the care, charge, and repairs of the same. That before it shall be competent for said State to dispose of any of the lands to be selected as aforesaid, the route of said canal shall be established, and a plat or plats thereof shall be filed in the office of the War Department, and a duplicate thereof in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. the military reserve at the Saint Peter's River, in the An Act to reduce and define the boundaries of Territory of Minnesota-Provides as per title. An Act authorizing imported goods, wares, and merchandise, entered and bonded for warehousing in pursuance of law, to be exported by certain routes to ports or places in Mexico-Provides that goods in bonded-warehouse, may be withdrawn at any time within two years from the original importation for immediate exportation, without payment of duties, to Chihuahua, San Fernando, and Paso del Norte, in Mexico, through the port of La Vaca, in Texas, and be transhipped inland thence to San Antonia, in Texas, and from the latter place to the destinations in Mexico aforesaid, either by way of Eagle Pass, the Presidio del Norte, or San Elizario, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The act also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint four Inspectors of the Customs, to reside at San Antonio, Eagle Pass, the Presidio del Norte, and San Elizario, who shall report semi annually all the trade which passes under inspection. The act also contains a provision intended to guard against smuggling goods back into the United States, after passing the Mexican lines. An Act to provide for a tri-monthly mail from New Orleans to Vera Cruz, via Tampico and back, in steam vessels-Authorizes the Postmaster-General to enter into contract for a term of five years, and for a sum not exceeding $100,000 per annum, with such person or persons as will engage to transport the U. S. mails from New Orleans to Vera Crnz, via Tampico and back, three times a month, in steam-vessels of not less than 800 tons burden, of the best form of construction, adapted to war purposes, and to the navigation of the Southern waters. An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act to reduce | and modify the rates of postage in the United States, and for other purposes," passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if the publisher of any periodical, after being three months previously notified that his publication is not taken out of the office to which it is sent for delivery, conBe it enacted, &c., That from and after the thirtieth tinue to forward such publication in the mail, the day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, postmaster to whose office such publication is sent, the postage upon all printed matter passing through may dispose of the same for the postage, unless the inail of the United States, instead of the rates the publisher shall pay it; and whenever any printnow charged, shall be as follows, to wit: Each ed matter of any description, received during one newspaper, periodical, unsealed circular, or other quarter of the fiscal year, shall have remained in article of printed matter, not exceeding three the office without being called for during the whole ounces in weight, shall be sent to any part of the of any succeeding quarter, the Postmaster at such United States for one cent, and for every additional office shall sell the same and credit the proceeds of ounce, or fraction of an ounce, one cent additional such sale in his quarterly accounts, under such shall be charged; and when the postage upon any regulations and after such notice as the Post-Office newspaper or periodical is paid quarterly or yearly Department shall prescribe. in advance at the office where the said periodical or newspaper is delivered, or is paid yearly or quarterly in advance at the office where the same is mailed, and evidence of such payment is furnished to the office of delivery in such manner as the Post Office Department shall by general regulations prescribe, one half of said rates only shall be charged. Newspapers and periodicals, not weighing over one ounce and a half, when circulated in the State where published, shall be charged one half of the rates before mentioned: Provided, That small newspapers and periodicals, published monthly or oftener, and pamphlets not containing more than sixteen octavo pages each, when sent in single packages, weighing at least eight ounces, to one address, and prepaid by affixing postage stamps thereto, shall be charged only one half a cent for each ounce or fraction of an ounce, notwithstanding the postage calculated on each separate article of such package would exceed that amount. The postage on all transient matter shall be prepaid by stamps or otherwise, or shall be charged double the rates first above mentioned. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That books, bound or unbound, not weighing over four pounds, shall be deemed mailable matter, and shall be chargeable with postage at one cent an ounce for all distances under three thousand miles, and two cents an ounce for all distances over three thousand miles, to which fifty per cent. shall be added in all cases where the same may be sent without being prepaid, and all printed matter, chargeable by weight, shall be weighed when dry. The publishers of newspapers and periodicals, may send to each other from their respective offices of publication, free of postage, one copy of each publication; and may also send to each actual subscriber, enclosed in their publications, bills and receipts for the same, free of postage. The publishers of weekly newspapers may send to each actual subscriber within the county where their papers are printed and published, one copy thereof free of postage. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no newspaper, periodical, magazine, or other printed paper or matter, shall be entitled to be sent at the rates of postage in this act specified, unless the following conditions be observed: First. It shall be sent without any cover or wrapper, or in a cover or wrapper open at the ends or sides, so that the character of the matter contained therein may be determined without removing such wrapper. Second. There shall be no word or communication printed on the same after its publication, or upon the cover or wrapper thereof, nor any writing or marks upon it, nor upon the cover or wrapper thereof, except the name and address of the person to whom it is to be sent. Third. There shall be no paper or other thing enclosed in or with such printed paper: and if these conditions are not complied with, such printed matter shall be subject to letter postage; and all matter sent by mail from one part of the United States to another, the postage of which is not fixed by the provisions of this act, shall, unless the same be entitled to be sent free of postage, be charged with letter postage. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the second section of the act entitled "An Act to modify and reduce the rates of postage in the United States, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as relates to the postage, or free circulation, or transmission of newspapers, periodicals, and other printed matter, and all other provisions of law inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That when a list of uncalled-for letters shall be published in any newspaper printed in any foreign language, said list shall be published in such newspaper having the largest circulation within the range of delivery of said office. $1,353,206 576,944 An Act making appropriations for the support Constructing barracks, &c., &c.... Current expenses of ordnance service. 105,504 1,047,185 203,181 1,160,000 250,000 400,000 120,000 1,500,000 170,000 100,000 250,000 300,000 688,064 less than 800 tons, shall have three life-boats; every vessel of more than 800, and less than 1500 tons, four life-boats, and every vessel of more than 1500 tons, shall have six life-boats; but steamers navigating rivers only are exempt from carrying more than one life-boat, provided they have such other provisions for the preservation of life as shall be satisfactory to the Inspectors. and one axe for each 100 tons, decreasing as the tonnage increases-so that a vessel of 5,500 tons may keep but three buckets for each 100 tons, and one axe for every five buckets. master General is also authorized to contract with | two boats, well supplied with oars, and in good the Ocean Steam Navigation Co. for one addi- condition, one of which shall be a life-boat, made tional trip on the Havre line, and one additional of metal. Every vessel of more than 500 tons, and on the Bremen line, until the expiration of their existing contract, receiving and delivering mails at Southampton, Cowes, or Plymouth, as the Postmaster-General may direct, in order thereby to maintain through such lines and the Collins' line, a regular weekly communication by American mail-steamers between the United States and Great Britain. The compensation for such addiSEC. 5. Every vessel shall have a life-preserver tional trips shall not exceed that allowed for each and float for each passenger, and 25 fire-buckets and trip under the existing contract. The Postmaster-5 axes. A vessel of 600 tons shall have five buckets General is further authorized to negotiate with the contractors for changing the terminus of the Havre line from Havre to Antwerp, in Belgium, the compensation for such change to be limited to a pro-rata allowance for the increased distance. The bridges across the Ohio River at Wheeling and Bridgeport, are declared to be post-roads, and lawful structures in their present position and elevation. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company, are authorized to have and maintain said bridges as they are; and the officers and crews of all vessels and boats navigating the Ohio, are required to regulate the use of their vessels and boats, pipes and chimneys, so as not to interfere with the elevation and construction of said bridges. PROTECTION TO STEAMBOAT PASSENGERS. An Act to amend an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam," and for other purposes. SEC. 6. Enacts that sufficient means of escape from the lower to the upper deck, in case of fire or other accident, shall be always at hand. SECS. 7 and 8. No hemp shall be carried unless the bales are compactly pressed and well covered; neither shall any explosive burning fluids be carried &s freight without license. The violation of these provisions incurs a penalty of $100 for each offence. Anybody putting on board explosive materials, without labelling it on the outside, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1000, or by 18 months' imprisonment. SEC. 9. Instead of the existing provisions of law for the inspection of steamers and their equipment, and the present system of pilotage, and mode of employing engineers, the following regulations shall be observed, to wit: The collector, together with the supervising inspector for the district, and the judge of the District Court of the United States for the district in each of the following collection districts, namely: New Orleans and St. Louis, Be it enacted, &c., That no license, register, or on the Mississippi river; Louisville, Cincinnati, enrolment under the provisions of this or the act Wheeling, and Pittsburgh, on the Ohio river; to which this is an amendment shall be granted, or Buffalo and Cleveland, on Lake Erie; Detroit, other papers issued by any collector to any vessel upon Detroit river; Nashville. upon the Cumberpropelled in whole or in part by steam, and carry- land river; Chicago, on Lake Michigan; Oswego, ing passengers, until he shall have satisfactory on Lake Ontario; Burlington, in Vermont; Galevidence that all the provisions of this act have been veston, in Texas; and Mobile, in Alabama; Savanfully complied with; and if any such vessel shall nah, in Georgia; Charleston, in South Carolina; be navigated, with passengers on board, without Norfolk, in Virginia; Baltimore, in Maryland; complying with the terms of this act, the owners Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania; New York, in New thereof, and the vessel itself, shall be subject to the York; New London, in Connecticut; Providence, penalties contained in the second section of the act in Rhode Island; Boston, in Massachusetts; Portto which this is an amendment. land, in Maine: and San Francisco, in California, shall designate two inspectors, of good character and suitable qualifications, to perform the services required of them by this act within the respective districts for which they shall be appointed, one of whom shall be fully competent to make a reliable estimate of the strength, sca-worthiness, and other qualities of the hulls of steamers and their equip ment, deemed essential to safety of life, to be called the Inspector of Hulls; the other of whom, shall be able to form a reliable opinion of the quality of the material, the strength, form, workmanship, and suitableness of such boilers and machinery, to be called the Inspector of Boilers; and these two persons shall be from the time of such designation inspectors, empowered and required to perform the duties herein specified, to wit: SEC. 2. Enacts that the Inspectors of the hulls of steamers, and boilers, and engines, shall see that suitable precautions are taken against the danger of fire, that no license shall be granted unless the provisions of this act are complied with, or if any material likely to take fire from heated iron, be placed at a less distance than eighteen inches from the substance likely to cause ignition, unless a column of air or water intervene between the heated surface and combustible material. But if the structure of the steamers is such that those requirements can not be complied with without great inconvenience, then the inspectors are allowed to vary therefrom, if they are satisfied it can be done with safety. SEC. 3. Every steam-vessel conveying passengers shall have three forcing pumps, with chambers four inches in diameter, one of which is to be placed near the stern, one near the stem, and one amidship, each having a well-fitted hose two-thirds the length of the vessel, each pump having a pipe to connect with it, which shall pass through the side of the vessel, so as always to be able to supply it with water when afloat. But in steamers not exceeding 200 tons measurement, two of the pumps may be dispensed with, and in those over 200 tons, and not exceeding 500 tons, one of the pumps may be dispensed with. SEC. 4. Every passenger steam-vessel shall have First. Upon application in writing by the master or owner, they shall once a year carefully inspect the hull of each passenger steamer belonging to their respective districts, and shall satisfy themselves that every such vessel is of a structure suita ble for the service in which she is to be employed, has suitable accommodations for her crew and pas sengers, and is in a condition to warrant the belief that she may be used in navigation with safety to life, and that all the requirements of law in regard to fires, boats, pumps, hose, life-preservers, floats, and other things, are faithfully complied with; and, if they deem it expedient, they may direct the 3 vessel to be put in motion, and may adopt any other suitable means to test her sufficiency and that of her equipment. Fourth. That, when the inspection in detail is completed, and the inspectors approve of the vessel and her equipment throughout, they shall make and subscribe a certificate to the collector of the district, substantially as follows:State of on this District of is in served in regard to boilers heretofore made, unless the proportion between such boilers and the cylinders, or some other cause, renders it manifest that Second. They shall also inspect the boilers of such its application would be unjust, in which cases the steamers before the same shall be used, and once inspectors may depart from these rules, if it can in every year thereafter, subjecting them to a hy-be done with safety; but in no case shall the workdrostatic pressure, the limit to which, not exceeding pressure allowed exceed the hydrostatic test, ing one hundred and sixty-five pounds to the square and no valve under any circumstances shall be inch for high-pressure boilers, may be prescribed loaded or so managed in any way as to subject a by the owner or the master, and shall satisfy them-boiler to a greater pressure than the amount allowselves by examination and experimental trials that ed by the inspectors, nor shall any boiler or pipe the boilers are well made, of good and suitable be approved which is made in whole or in part of material; that the openings for the passage of bad inaterial, or is unsafe in its form, or dangerous water and steam respectively, and all pipes and from defective workmanship, age, use, or any other tubes exposed to heat, are of proper dimensions, cause. and free from obstruction; that the spaces between the flues are sufficient, and that the fire line of the furnace is below the prescribed water line of the boilers; and that such boilers, and the machinery, and the appurtenances, may be safely employed in the service proposed in the written application, without peril to life; and shall also satisfy them- Application having been made in writing by selves that the safety-valves are of suitable dimento the subscribers, inspectors for said sions, sufficient in number, well arranged, and in district, to examine the steamer, of good working order (one of which may, if neces- whereof are owners, and is sary in the opinion of the inspectors to secure safety, master, we, having performed that service, now, be taken wholly from the control of all persons enday of anno Domini gaged in navigating such vessel); that there is a suita- do certify that she was built in the yearble number of gauge-cocks properly inserted, and all respects stanch, seaworthy, and in good cona suitable water-guage and steam-guage, indicating dition for navigation, having suitable means of esthe hight of the water and the pressure of the steam; cape, in case of accident, from the main to the that in or upon the outside flue of each outside high-upper deck; that she is provided with [here insert pressure boiler, there is placed alloyed metals, fusi- the number of state-rooms and berths for cabin pasble by the heat of the boiler when raised to the high-sengers, the number of berths for deck or other est working pressure allowed, and that in or upon classes of passengers, the number of passengers of the top of the flues of all other high-pressure boilers each class for whom she has accommodations, and in the steamer such alloyed metals are placed as in case of steamers sailing to or from any Euroaforesaid, fusing at ten pounds greater pressure rean port, or any port on the Atlantic or Pacific, a than said metals on the outside boilers, thereby in distance of one thousand miles or upward, the each case letting steam escape; and that adequate number of each she is permitted to carry; and in and certain provision is made for an ample supply case of a steamer sailing to any other pert, a disof water to feed the boilers at all times, whether tance of five hundred miles or upward, the num such vessel is in motion or not; so that in high-ber of deck passengers she is permitted to carry; pressure boilers the water shall not be less than also the number of boilers, and the form, dimen four inches above the flue: Provided, however, in sions, and material of which each boiler is made, steamers hereafter supplied with new high-press- the thickness of the metal, and when made, if after ure boilers, if the alloy fuses on the outer boilers this act takes effect, and of iron, whether they are at a pressure of ten pounds exceeding the working such in all respects as the act requires, whether pressure allowed, and at twenty pounds above said each boiler has been tried by hydrostatic test, the pressure on the inner boilers, it shall be a sufficient amount of pressure to the square inch in pounds compliance with this act. applied to it, whether the amount allowed as the Third. That, in subjecting to the hydrostatic test maximum working power was determined by the aforesaid, high-pressure boilers, the inspectors shall rule prescribed by this act, if not the reason for a assume one hundred and ten pounds to the square departure from it; also the number of safety-valves inch as the maximum pressure allowable as a work-required, their capacity, the load prescribed for ing power for a new boiler forty-two inches in each valve, how many are left in the control of the diameter, made of inspected iron plates, at least persons navigating the vessel, whether one is one fourth of an inch thick. in the best manner, and withdrawn and the manner of securing it against of the quality herein required, and shall rate the interference; also the number and dimensions of working power of all high-pressure boilers, ac- supply pipes, and whether they and the other means cording to their strengtli compared with this provided are sufficient at all times, and under all standard; and in all cases the test applied shall ex- circumstances, when in good order, to keep the ceed the working power allowed in the ratio of water up four inches at least above the top of the one hundred and sixty-five to one hundred and ten, flue; also the number and dimensions of the steamand no high-pressure boilers hereafter made, shall pipes, the number and kind of engines, the dimenbe rated above this standard; and in subjecting sions of their cylinders, the number and capacity low-pressure boilers to the test aforesaid, the in- of the forcing-pumps, and how worked; the numspectors shall allow as a working power of each ber and kind of gauge-cocks, water and steam new boiler, a pressure of only three-fourths the gauges, where situate, and how secured; also the number of pounds to the square inch to which it manner of using alloyed metals and the pressure shall have been subjected by the hydrostatic test, at which they are known by the inspectors to fuse; and found to be sufficient therefor, using the water the equipments for the extinguishment of fires, inin such tests at a temperature not exceeding sixty cluding hose, fire-buckets, and axes; the provisions degrees Fahrenheit; but should such inspectors be for saving life in case of accident, including boats, of the opinion that said boiler, by reason of its con- life-preservers, and substitutes therefor," where struction or material, will not safely allow so high kept, and all other provisions made on board for a working pressure, they may fix the working the security of the lives of passengers.] And w pressure at less than three-fourths of said test pres- further certify, that the equipment of the vessel sure, and no low-pressure boiler hereafter made, throughout, including pipes, pumps, and other shall be rated in its working pressure above the means to keep the water up to the point aforesaid, aforesaid standard; the same rules shall be ob-hose, boats, life-preservers, and other things, is in conformity with the provisions of law; and that we declare it to be our deliberate conviction, founded upon the inspection which we have made, that the vessel may be employed as a steamer upon the waters named in the application, without peril to life from any imperfection of form, materials, workmanship, or arrangement of the several parts, or from age or use. And we further certify that said vessel is to run within the following limits, to wit: From to and back, touching at intermediate places. their doings in the premises; and such supervising inspector may revoke the decision of such local board of inspectors, and license such pilot or engineer; and like proceedings, upon the same conditions, may be had by the master or owner of any such vessel, or of any steamboat boiler, for which the said local board shall have refused, upon inspection, to give a certificate of approval, or shall have notified such master or owner of any repairs necessary after such certificate has been granted. Tenth. It shall be unlawful for any person to emAnd which certificate shall be verified by the ploy, or any person to serve as engineer or pilot, oaths of the inspectors signing it, before a person on any such vessel, who is not licensed by the incompetent by law to administer oaths. And inspectors; and any one so offending shall forfeit one case the said inspectors do not grant a certificate hundred dollars for each offence: Provided, however, of approval, they shall state, in writing, and sign That if a vessel leaves her port with a complement the same, their reasons for their disapproval. of engineers and pilots, and on her voyage is deFifth. Upon the application of the master or prived of their services, or the services of any of owner of any steamer employed in the carriage of them, without the consent, fault, or collusion of passengers, for a license to carry gunpowder, oil the master, owner, or any one interested in the of turpentine, oil of vitriol, camphine, or other ex-vessel, the deficiency may be temporarily supplied, plosive burning fluids and materials which ignite until others, licensed, can be obtained. by friction, or either of them, the inspectors shall examine such vessel, and if they find that she is provided with chests or safes composed of metal, or entirely lined therewith, or one or more apart ments thoroughly lined with metal at a secure distance from any fire, they may grant a certificate to that effect, authorizing such vessel to carry as freight any of the articles aforesaid, those of each description to be secured in such chest, safe, or apartment, containing no other article, and carried at a distance from any fire to be specified in the certificate; any certificate may be annulled at any time by the inspectors, upon proof that any of the provisions of this act have been violated. Eleventh. In addition to the annual inspection, it shall be the duty of said board to examine seasonably steamers arriving and departing, so often as to enable them to detect any neglect to comply with the requirements of law, and also any defects or imperfections becoming apparent after the inspection aforesaid, and tending to render the navigation of the vessel unsafe, which service may be performed by one of the board: and if he shall dis cover an omission to comply with the law, or that repairs have become necessary to make the vessel safe, he shall at once notify the master, stating in the notice what is required; and if the master deems the requirements unreasonable or unnecesSixth. The said inspectors shall keep a regular sary, he may take the opinion of the board thereon, record of certificates of inspections of vessels, and if dissatisfied with the decision of such board, their boilers, engines, and machinery, whether of may apply for a re-examination of the case to the approval or disapproval, and when recorded, the supervising inspector, as is hereinbefore provided; original shall be delivered to the collector of the and if he shall neglect to comply with the requiredistrict; they shall keep a like record of certificates ment of the local board, and shall employ the vesauthorizing gunpowder, oil of turpentine, &c., to sel by navigating her, the master and owner shall be carried as freight, and when recorded, deliver be liable for any damage to the passengers and the originals to said collector; they shall keep a their baggage, which shall occur from any defects like record of all licenses to pilots and engineers, so as aforesaid stated in said notice, which shall be and all revocations thereof, and shall from time to in writing, and all inspections and orders shall be time report to the supervising inspector of their re-promptly made by the inspectors; no inspectors of spective districts, in writing, their decisions on all one district shall modify or annul the doings of applications for such licenses, or proceedings for those of another district, in regard to repairs, unthe revocation thereof, and all testimony received less there is a change in the state of things demandby them in such proceedings. ing more repairs than were thought necessary when the order was made. Seventh. The inspectors shall license and classify all engineers and pilots of steamers carrying pas sengers. Eighth. Whenever any person claiming to be qualified to perform the duty of engineer upon passenger steamers shall apply to the board of inspectors, they shall examine the applicant, and if they deem him qualified, shall give him a certificate to that effect for one year. Ninth. Whenever any person claiming to be a skilful pilot, shall offer himself for a license, the said board shall make diligent inquiry as to his character and merits; and if satisfied that he possesses the requisite skill, and is trustworthy and faithful, they shall give him a certificate to that effect, licensing him for one year to be a pilot of any such vessel within the limit prescribed in the certificate; but the license of any such engineer or pilot, may be revoked upon proof of negligence, unskilfulness, or inattention to the duties of the station: Provided, however, If in cases of refusal to license engineers or pilots, and in cases of revocation of any license by the local board of inspectors, any engineer or pilot deeming himself wronged by such refusal or revocation may, within thirty days after notice thereof, on application to a supervising inspector, have his case examined anew by such supervising inspector, upon producing a certified copy of the reasons assigned by the local board for Twelfth. The said board, when requested, shall inspect steamers belonging to districts where no such board is established. Thirteenth. The said board of inspectors shall have power to summon and compel the attendance of witnesses, as in courts of law, and may examine charges of misconduct or incompetency against any licensed engineer, and, upon sufficient proof, shall immediately revoke his license. Fourteenth. That the said board shall report promptly all their doings to the chief officer of the customs, as well as all omissions or refusals to comply with the provisions of law on the part of any owner or master. Fifteenth. That it shall at all times be the duty of all licensed engineers and pilots, and all mates, to assist the inspectors in the examination of any such vessels to which any such engineer, mate, or pilot belongs, and to point out all defects and imperfections in the hull or apparatus for steaming, and also to make known to them, at the earliest opportunity, all accidents occasioning serious injury to the vessel or her equipment, whereby life may be in danger, and in default thereof, the license of any such engineer or pilot shall be revoked. SEC. 10. In those cases where the number of passengers is limited by the inspector's certificate, it shall not be lawful to take on board of any steamer |