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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. S1s:ss.II. Cris. 49, 50. 1887. 369 Fifth. To establish and regulate the charges to be made by owners Hack charges. of hacks and hackney carriages of any kind whatsoever. Sixth. To prohibit conducting droves of animals upon such streets Droves of aniand avenues as they may deem needful to public safety and good order. ¤¤¤L¤· f Spventh. To regulate the keeping and running at large of dogs and Dogs and fowls. ow s. Eighth. To prohibit the deposit upon the streets or sidewalks of Deposits on fruit, or any part thereof, or other substance or articles that might lit- ¤¤¤¤i¤ ¤¤d Sideter the same, or cause injury to or impede pedestrians. W“1k“· ‘ N inth. To regulate or prohibit loud noises with horns, gongs, or other Noises and areinstruments, or loud cries, upon the streets or public places, and to pro- W<>Fk¤- hibit the use of any fireworks or explosives within such portions of the District as they may think necessary to public safety. Tenth. To regulate the movements of vehicles on the public streets Passage of veandbavenues for the preservation of order and protection of life and hi¢l¢¤- 1m. Eleventh. To prescribe reasonable penalties for the violation of any Ifenaltiesforvioof the regulations in this act mentioned; and said penalties may be l°¤°¤¤· enforced in any court of the District of Columbia having jurisdiction of minor offenses, and in the same manner that such minor offenses are now by law prosecuted and punished. Sec. 2. That the regulations herein provided for shall,when adopted, R¤g¤l¤¤i¤¤¤ iv be printed in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the b° P"‘“*°‘1· District of Columbia; and no penalty prescribed for the violation of said regulations shall be enforced until thirty days after such publication. Approved, January 26, 1887. CHAP. 50.-An act to provide for an American register for the steamer Nuevo Jan. 26, 1987- Mocteznma, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -—Y"*‘*"‘ Be it enacted the Senate and House of Representatives of the United . . States of Amerigg in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Navi-  :%:2;; gation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built N,,,,,,,, M,,cm¤m,,,_ steamer Nuevo Moctezuma, formerly Madrid, owned at the port of jPhila— delphia, State of Pennsylvania, by L. and R. Wister and Company, American citizens, and rebuilt by them at Philadelphia, to be registered as a vessel of the United States. _ Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, au- I¤¤t»¤¤¤¤¤ thorized and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said steamwessel, steam-boiler, steanrpipes, and the appurtenances of said boiler, and cause to be granted the proper and usual certincate issued to steam-vessels of the merchant marine, without reference to the fact that said steam-boiler, steampipes, and appurtenances were not constructed pursuant to the laws of the United States, and were not constructed of iron stamped pursuant to said laws; and the tests to be applied on the inspection of said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances will be the same in all respects as to strength and safety as are required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United States for marine purposes, save that the fact that said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances not being constructed pursuant to the requirements of the laws of the United States, and are of unstamped iron, shall not be an obstacle to the grantr ing of the usual certificate if said boiler, steanrpipes, and appurtenances are found to be of sutllcient strength and safety, Approved, January 26, 1887. STAT L-·VOL xxrv--24