...7, 1838 (5 Stat. L., 304), the first legislation enacted by the national government looking toward the "better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." Owners or masters of such vessels were required to employ a competent number of experienced...

...7, 1838 (5 Stat. L., 304), the first legislation enacted by the national government looking toward the "better security of the lives of passengers on...board of vessels'- propelled in whole or in part by steam." Owners, or masters of such vessels were required to employ a cortapetehf number of experienced...

...insure the safety of passengers and cargoes transported by water. 2. History In 1838 Congress passed an act "to provide for the better security of the...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." * By this act seagoing steam vessels and steam vessels plying the Great Lakes, were required...

...c. 100 (16 Stat. 440), embodied in title 52, is, "An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam and for other purposes." The sections of the title fall within the title. The provision for inspectors of steam vessels and...

...of the act of February 28, 1871, (16 St. 459,) passed "to provide for the better security of life on vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes." Section 1 provides — "That no license, register, or enrollment sliall be granted * * * by any collector...

...1871, c. 100, 16 Stat. 440, 458. That Act, entitled "An Act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes," related to the supervision and regulation of steamers and was made applicable by section 41 to "all...

...lays its strong restraint upon local carelessuess and individual cupidity, by the act of July 7, 1838, "to provide for the better security of the lives of...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam."— 5 Stat. at L. 304. Your committee allnde to iliis familiar series of legislation in the...

...organizations in the Federal Government, was established by act of Congress in 1838, as a means toward "the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." Later legislation enlarged the scope of the service and brought it under the direction of the...

...5344 is the culmination had its origin In the act of congress of July 7, 1838, (5 Stat. 304,) entitled "An act to provide for the better security of the...board of vessels propelled In whole or In part by steam." It was extended by the act of February 28, 1871, (16 Stat 458, § 57,) and the provision in...

...provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for the better secuxvi, p. 440. rj£y of ]¡fe on |j0ar(j of vessels propelled, in whole or in part, by steam, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen, hundred and seventy-one. Approved, April 17, 1874. April 17, 1W4....