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 FIFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1I. CHS. 880,892. 1907. 881 CHAP. 880.-An Act To provide American registers for the steamers Marie and F¤b¤¤¤i‘Y_7· N07- Sucm_,S_ · [u. 1:. 1014.] · [Public, No. 67. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R ecmtahbes of the United 1 States of America in Congress assembled, aeliat the Commissioner of sregmm gmane-- Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built °°§1m¤S$.°§"'m,m,, steamers Marie and Success, wrecked in the waters of Cuba and the g"““‘°'*· Isthmus of Panama, respectively, and purchased and wholly owned by the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Com any, of New York City, incorporated under the laws of the State of West Virginia, to-be registered as vessels of the United States whenever it; shall be shown to the Commissioner of Navigation that the repairs on each of the said vessels amount to three-times the actual cost of each of the said wrecks to the owner. Approved, February 7, 1907. CHAP. 892.-An Act To amend au Act entitled "An Act to amend section forty- F?§“;"{.,§é}°}”· four hundred and Eve of the Revised Statutes of the United States," approved March third, nineteen hundred and Eve. [Public,N0.68.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House oflfqpresentatives of the United States of America in Urmgressassernbled, That sm Act entitled "An Act ;i§$°S£fI°°°°°' to amend section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes V°‘·““·P·*°”- of the United Stutes,’_ approved March third, nineteen hundred and live, be, sind the same is ereby, amended by insertin after the word " title " and before the word "aud” the words ‘“inclu5ing regulations oveming the use of whistles as signals by steam vessels and plro- Eibibing useless and unnecessary w istliug/’ so that the same s all read as follows: M { rd “S1·:c. 4405. The supervising inspectors and the Sulpervisiug In- ,,;§,‘§'{,'},€,‘}°°{’°‘{,is; specter-General shall assemble as a board once in enc year at the ***3*3 38 p_ mn city of Washington. District of Columbia, on the third Wednesday in amended. ' January, and at such other times as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall prescribe, for joint consultation, and shall assign to each of the supervising inspectors the limits of territory wit in which he shall perform his duties. The board shall establish all necessary “°¤“‘°**°¤*· regulations re uired to carry out in the most effective manner the whim m t d provisions of iiais title and also regulations, prohibiting useless und ,ddef ""°“ ° e unnecessary whistling, and such regulations, when approved by the Secretarv of Commerce and Labor, shall have the force of law. The supervisin inspector for the district embracing the Pucitic coast shall not be umiir obligation to attend the meetmgs of the board oftener than once m two years: but when he does not attend such meeting he shall make his communications thereto, in the way of a reg<;rt, in such _ manner as the board shall prescribe: Provided, That the cretary of Q",;",,'};?,, cmmt, Commerce and Labor may at amy time cull m session, after reasonable *°° ¤“*'*°¤"d· puhhc notice. u meeting of an executive committee, to be composed of the Supervising Inspector—Generul and any two supervising inspectors, which committee, with the approval of the Saud Secretary, shall have 0i*};';,fl‘}§t'§l}Q· °“`~· power to alter, amend, add to, or repeal any of the rules and regulations made., with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, by the board of supervising inspectors, either by virtue of this section or under any power grunted by this title, or any amendments thereof, such alteration, amendment, addition, or repeal, when approved by the said Secretary, to have the force of law and to continue in effect until thirty days after the adjournment of the next meeting of the board of supervising inspectors. The foregoing powers of such executnve comvor. xxxrv, rr 1--56