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 ri-mi m.—1zEeULA*r1oN or srmuvnssmts.-ou. 2. 865 Sec. 4:468. Every master of any passengensteamer who fails, through Penalty for failppgihgence pr design, to keep a list of passengers, as required by the pre- “"°{0k°°PP“”°°“' ng section. shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars. 28 Feb., 1871, c. 100, s. 49, v. 16, p. 454. Sm. -1469. The penalties imposed by sections forty-four hundred and B€¤<>V€F>’ of 1*¢*¤· sixty-five and forty-four hundred and sixty-eight shall be alien upon the "l°‘°S· ___ vessel in each case; but a bond may, as provided in other cases, be given Ibid. to secure the satisfaction of the judgment. Sec. 4470. Every steamer carrying passengers or freight shall be pro- 3*00**** *0** " vided with suitable pipes and valves attached to the boiler. to convev agamst Hm steam into the hold an the different compartments thereof, to extin ruish Ibid-, S- 2, p- 440- fire; and every stove used on board of any such vessel shall be well and securely fastened. so as to prevent it from being moved or overthrown, and all wood-work or other ignitable substances about the boilers, chimneys, cook-houses, and stove-pipes exposed to ignition, shall be tho1·- oughly shielded by some incombustible material, in such a manner as to leave the air to circulate freely between such material and wood-work or other ignitable substance; and before granting a certificate of inspection, the in?ector shall require all other necessary provisions to be made throng out such vessel to guard against loss or danger from tire. _ Sec. st-171. Every steamer permitted by her certificate of inspection to Fl'0‘P‘““P¤ 0**0 carry as many as fifty passengers, or upward, and every steamer carry- ing passengers, which a so carries cotton, hay, or hemp, shall be provided Ibid-, S. 3. with a good double-acting steam fire-pump, or other equivalent apparatus for throwing water. Such pump or other apparatus for throwin water shall be kept at all times and at all seasons of the year in good order and ready for immediate use, having at least two pipes of suitable dimensions, one on each side of the vessel, to convey the water to the upper decks. to which pipes there shall be attached, by means of stopcocks or valves, both between decks and on the upper deck, rood and suitable hose of sufficient strength to stand a pressure of not {less than one hundred pounds to the square inch, long enough to reach to all parts of the vessel and properly provided with nozzles, and kept in good order and ready for immediate service. Every steamer exceeding two hundred tons burden and carrying passengers shall be provided with two good double-acting fire-pumps, to be worked by hand; each chamber of such pumps, except pumps upon steamers in service on the zwenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall Je of sufficient capacity to contain not less than one hundred cubic nches of water; and such pumps shall be placed in the most suitable parts of the vessel for efficient service, having suitable well-fitted hose to each pump, of at least one·half the vessel in length, kept at all times in perfect order, and shipped up and ready for immediate use. n every Steamer not exceeding two hundred tons, one of such pumps may be dispensed with. Each fire-pump thus prescribed shall ·bc supplied with water by means of a suitab e pipe connected therewith. and passing through the side of the vessel so ow as to be at all times underwater when she is afloat; and no fire pump thus provided for shall be placed below the lower deck of the vessel. Every steamer shall also be provided with a pump which shall be of sufficient strength and suitably arranged to test the boilers thereof. Sec. 4-172. No loose hay, loose cotton, or looso hemp, camphenc, nitro- _Dangerous artiglycerine, naphtha, benzine, benzole, coal-oil, crude or refined petroleum, @0% 00* te be 00** or other like explosive burning fluids, or like dangerous articles, shall be ;;_,,?;rgj”S€"g°r` carried as freight or used as stores on any steamer carrying passengers; ——-;—-·~ nor shall baled cotton or hemp be carried on such steamers unless the g"‘§,·:·4ig’;;‘u· bales are compactly pressed and thoroughly covered with bagging of 69 ,,_ 1; 252j°‘ similar fabric, and secured with good rope or iron bands; nor s all gun- powder be carried on any such vessel, except under special license; nor ShE":,‘°; %·,C°i shall oil of vitriol, nitric or other chemical acids be carried on such steam- U_ S_ ’,._ The {Q_ Bf ers except on the decks or guards thereof, or in such other safe part of Church, 1 Woods, the vessel as shall be prescribed by the inspectors. Refined petroleum, 275-