inspection, or without any part of the equipment prescribed by section eleven, the owner shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars for each offense. (35 Stat. 428.)

See notes to section 10 of this act, ante, § 8178.

§ 8182. (R. S. § 4421, as amended, Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, Act June 11, 1906, c. 3071, and Act June 25, 1910, c. 402.) Certificate of inspectors; temporary certificate; completion of voyage after expiration of certificate.

When the inspection of a steam vessel is completed 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 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. The said temporary certificate shall be carried and exposed by vessels in the same manner as is provided in section forty-four hundred and twentythree 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 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 twentythree, forty-four hundred and twenty-four, and forty-four hundred and twenty-six, and for the purposes of said sections, and shall also, during such period, be a substitute for the regular certificate of 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 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 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 com

plete 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 incurred until her voyage shall have been completed: Provided, That said voyage shall be so completed within thirty days after the expiration 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.

Act Feb. 28, 1871, c. 100, § 11, 16 Stat. 443. Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 251. Act June 11, 1906, c. 3071, 34 Stat. 230. Act June 25, 1910, c. 402, 36 Stat. 831.

This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, contained only the first three sentences of the section as set forth here, ending with words "giving the reasons for their disapproval."

The amendment of the section by Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, cited above consisted in the insertion of a comma, after the word "made," in the first sentence.

The section was further amended by Act June 11, 1906, c. 3071, also cited above, by adding, at the end of the section, the provisions for a temporary certificate, beginning with the words "Upon such inspection and approval, the inspectors shall also make," etc., and ending with the words "without having on board an unexpired regular certificate of inspection or such temporary certificate."

It was again amended by Act June 25, 1910, c. 402, last cited above by adding, after the provision added by said previous amendment, the three provisos relating to completion of a voyage after expiration of the certificate, beginning with the words "Provided, however, that any such vessel, operated upon a regularly established line," etc., to the end of the section as set forth here.

R. S. § 4424, mentioned in the provisions added by said amendment by Act June 11, 1906, c. 3071, is set forth post, § 8185, and R. S. §§ 4423, 4426, 4453, and 4498, also mentioned therein, are set forth, as amended, post, §§ 8184, 8215, 8274.

All foreign private steam vessels carrying passengers from any port of the United States to any other place or country were made subject to the provisions of this section and R. S. §§ 4422-4424, and liable to visitation and inspection by the proper officer in any of the ports of the United States respecting any of the provisions of said sections, by R. S. § 4400, as amended by Act Aug. 7, 1882, c. 441, § 1, ante, § 8152.

§ 8183. (R. S. § 4422.) License by inspectors to carry gunpowder. Upon the application of any master or owner of any steam-vessel employed in the carriage of passengers, for a license to carry gunpowder, the local inspectors shall examine such vessel, and if they find that she is provided with a chest or safe composed of metal, or entirely lined and sheathed therewith, or if the vessel has one or more compartments thoroughly lined and sheathed with metal, at a secure distance from any fire, they may grant a certificate to that effect, authorizing such vessel to carry as freight within such chest, safes, or compartments, the article of gunpowder.

Act Feb. 28, 1871, c. 100, § 12, 16 Stat. 445.

This section was not repealed by Act May 30, 1908, c. 234, 35 Stat. 554, relating to transportation in interstate commerce of explosives, etc., by a provision of section 6 thereof. That act was incorporated into the Criminal

Code in sections 233-236 thereof, post, §§ 10403-10406, and was repealed by section 341 thereof, post, § 10515.

See, also, notes to R. S. § 4421, ante, § 8182.

§ 8184. (R. S. § 4423, as amended, Act March 3, 1905, c. 1457, § 3.) Disposal of certificates of inspection.

Every collector or other chief officer of the customs shall retain on file all original certificates of the inspectors required to be delivered to him, and shall give to the master or owner of the vessel therein named three certified copies thereof, two of which shall be placed by such master or owner in conspicuous places in the vessel where they will be most likely to be observed by passengers and others, and there kept at all times, framed under glass, and the other shall be retained by such master or owner as evidence of the authority thereby conferred: Provided, however, That where it is not practicable to so expose said copies they shall be carried in the vessel in such manner as shall be prescribed by the regulations established by the board of supervising inspectors with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce [and Labor].

Act Feb. 28, 1871, c. 100, § 31, 16 Stat. 450. Act March 3, 1905, c. 1457, § 3, 33 Stat. 1029.

This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, did not contain the proviso at the end thereof as set forth here. Said proviso was added by amendment by Act March 3, 1905, c. 1457, § 3, cited above.

The words "and Labor," inclosed in brackets at the end of this section as amended, were superseded by the change of the title Secretary of Commerce and Labor to Secretary of Commerce, on the creation of the Department of Labor, by Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 1, ante, § 932.

See, also, notes to R. S. § 4421, ante, § 8182.

§ 8185. (R. S. § 4424.) Penalty for carrying passengers or gunpowder contrary to law.

Whenever any passenger is received on board any steam-vessel not having the certified copies of the certificate of approval placed and kept as required by this Title, or whenever any passenger steamvessel receives or carries any gunpowder on board, not having a certificate authorizing the same, and a certified copy thereof placed and kept as required, or shall carry any gunpowder at a place or in a manner not authorized by such certificate, such steam-vessel shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense. Act Feb. 28, 1871, c. 100, § 31, 16 Stat. 450.

The mode of packing gunpowder, etc., for shipment was prescribed by R. S. 8 4475, post, § 8245.

See, also, notes to R. S. § 4421, ante, § 8182.

§ 8186. (R. S. § 4425.) Punishment of inspector certifying falsely. Every inspector who willfully certifies falsely touching any steamvessel, as to her hull, accommodations, boilers, engines, machinery, or their appurtenances, or any of her equipments, or any matter or thing contained in any certificate signed and sworn to by him, shall be punished by fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.

Act Feb. 28, 1871, c. 100, § 32, 16 Stat. 450.

The penalty for receiving illegal fees by steamboat inspectors was prescribed by R. S. § 5482, which was incorporated into the Criminal Code in section

107 thereof, post, § 10276, and was repealed by section 341, thereof, post, § 10515.

§ 8187. (R. S. § 4426, as amended, Act Dec. 22, 1890, c. 26, Act March 3, 1905, c. 1457, § 4, and Act May 16, 1906, c. 2460.) Ferry boats, canal boats, yachts, etc.; steam launches; motor boats.

The hull and boilers of every ferryboat, canal boat, yacht, or other small craft of like character propelled by steam, shall be inspected under the provisions of this title. Such other provisions of law for the better security of life as may be applicable to such vessels shall, by the regulations of the board of supervising inspectors, also be required to be complied with before a certificate of inspection shall be granted, and no such vessel shall be navigated without a licensed engineer and a licensed pilot: Provided, however, That in open steam launches of ten gross tons and under, one person, if duly qualified, may serve in the double capacity of pilot and engineer. All vessels of above fifteen gross tons carrying freight or passengers for hire, but not engaged in fishing as a regular business, propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or electric motors, shall be, and are hereby, made subject to all the provisions of section fortyfour hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the inspection of hulls and boilers and requiring engineers and pilots, and for any violation of the provisions of this title applicable to such vessels, or of rules or regulations lawfully established thereunder, and to the extent to which such provisions of law and regulations are so applicable, the said vessels, their masters, officers, and owners shall be subject to the provisions of sections forty-four hundred and ninety-six, forty-four hundred and ninety-seven, forty-four hundred and ninety-eight, forty-four hundred and ninety-nine, or forty-five hundred, relating to the imposition and enforcement of penalties and the enforcement of law. All vessels of fifteen gross tons or less propelled in whole or in part by gas, gasoline, petroleum, naphtha, fluid, or electricity, and carrying passengers for hire, shall carry one life-preserver, of the sort prescribed by the regulations of the board of supervising inspectors, for every passenger carrier, and no such boat while so carrying passengers shall be operated or navigated except in charge of a person duly licensed for such service by the local board of inspectors. No examination shall be required as a condition of the obtaining of such a license, and any such license shall be revoked or suspended by the local board of inspectors. for misconduct, gross negligence, recklessness in navigation, intemperance, or violation of law on the part of the holder, and if revoked, the person holding such license shall be incapable of obtaining another such license for one year from the date of revocation.

Act Feb. 28, 1871, c. 100, § 58, 16 Stat. 456. Act Dec. 22, 1890, c. 26, 26 Stat. 692. Act March 3, 1905, c. 1457, § 4, 23 Stat. 1029. Act May 16, 1906, c. 2460, 34 Stat. 193.

This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, was as follows:

"The hull and boilers of every ferry-boat, canal-boat, yacht, or other small

craft of like character, propelled by steam, shall be inspected under the provisions of this Title. Such other provisions of law for the better security of life, as may be applicable to such vessels, shall, by the regulations of the board of supervising inspectors, also be required to be complied with, before a certificate of inspection shall be granted; and no such vessel shall be navigated without a licensed engineer and a licensed pilot."

It was amended by Act Dec. 22, 1890, c. 26, cited above by adding thereto a proviso, in the following words:

"Provided, however, That in open steam-launches of ten tons burden and under, one person, if duly qualified, may serve in the double capacity of pilot and engineer."

It was further amended by Act March 3, 1905, c. 1457, § 4, also cited above to read as follows:

"The hull and boilers of every ferryboat, canal boat, yacht, or other small craft of like character propelled by steam, shall be inspected under the provisions of this title. Such other provisions of law for the better security of life as may be applicable to such vessels shall, by the regulations of the board of supervising inspectors, also be required to be complied with before a certificate of inspection shall be granted, and no such vessel shall be navigated without a licensed engineer and a licensed pilot: Provided, however, That in open steam launches of ten tons burden and under, one person, if duly qualified, may serve in the double capacity of pilot and engineer. All vessels of above fifteen tons burden carrying freight or passengers for hire, propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or electric motors, shall be, and are hereby, made subject to all the provisions of section forty-four hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the inspection of hulls and boilers and requiring engineers and pilots, and for any violation of the provisions of this title applicable to such vessels, or of rules or regulations lawfully established thereunder, and to the extent to which such provisions of law and regulations are so applicable, the said vessels, their masters, officers, and owners shall be subject to the provisions of sections forty-four hundred and ninety-six, forty-four hundred and ninety-seven, fortyfour hundred and ninety-eight, forty-four hundred and ninety-nine, and fortyfive hundred, relating to the imposition and enforcement of penalties and the enforcement of law."

It was again amended by Act May 16, 1906, c. 2460, last cited above, to read as set forth here.

R. S. §§ 4496-4500, mentioned in this section, are set forth post, §§ 8272-8276.

The provision in this section that "all vessels of above fifteen gross tons carrying freight or passengers for hire, but not engaged in fishing as a regular business, propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or electric motors, shall be, and are hereby, made subject to all the provisions of section forty-four hundred and twenty-six of the United States relating to the inspection of hulls and boilers and requiring engineers and pilots," is almost identical with a provision of Act Jan. 18, 1897, c. 61, post, § 8282. Said Act Jan. 18, 1897, c. 61, contains other provisions applicable to such vessels.

The provisions in this section relating to life preservers and the licensing of navigating officers are probably superseded by similar provisions in Act June 9, 1910, c. 268, § 5, post, § 8281, as to all vessels coming within the purview of that act, which vessels are defined in section 1 thereof, post, § 8277. The provisions of this section were made applicable to steam-vessels navigating the water of Irondequoit Bay, New York, and carrying passengers, by Act June 25, 1890, c. 616, ante, § 8154.

Vessels, while laid up and dismantled and out of commission, might be exempted from inspection under this section, by a proviso of R. S. § 4417, as amended by Act March 3, 1905, c. 1454, § 1, ante, § 8172.

Certain Indians, residents of Metlakahtla, Alaska, although not citizens of the United States, may receive licenses as operators of motor boats and other craft, and may be owners of such motor boats or other craft, subject to the provisions of this act, by Act March 4, 1907, c. 2929, post, §§ 8188, 8189.