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FLFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 3918, 3919. 1906. 797 to be issued to the town of Tincup, Colorado, from and out of the Leadville Forest Reserve, for the west half of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section seven, township fifteen south, range eighty-one west of sixth principal meridian, for cemeterv purposes, ‘ such patent to issue only after the iilin of due roof with the Land Department of the incorporation of said town and) the payment of the sum of one and twenty-five one·hundredths dollars per acre as purchase price therefor. Approved, June 30, 1906. CHAP. 3919.-An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-one of J¤¤¤ 30. 1906- the Revised Statutes of the United States, regulation of steam vessels. [S· *2*-] [rupue, up. 888.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRe;m·esentattvea of the United States of .Amm·iea in Cmirm assembled, That section forty-four hun- Stem vessels. dred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, Fm °r°”°°i°°‘ and it is hereby, amended by striking out after the words " is ailoat," and before the words “EVE]?' steamer," the words "and no fire pump thus provided for shall be p aced below the lower deck of the vessel," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: L " Sec. 4471. Every steamer permitted by her certificate of inspection Ifire pump, sw., rsto carry as many as fifty passengers, or upward, and every steamer ‘*“l§‘g‘l;SeC_,,,,, pw, carryin passengers, which also carries cotton, hay, or hemp, shall be ¤r¤é€;<;;d- ' rovidegl with a good double-acting steam fire-pump, or other equiva- °°m°' licnt apparatus for throwing water. Such pump or other apparatus for throwing 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 stop cocks or valves, both between decks and on the upper deck, good and suitable hose of sufficient strength to stand a pressure of not less than one hundred pounds to the square inch, long enough to reachto all parts of the vessel and properly provided with nozzels, and kept in ood order and ready for imme iate service. Every mpc pump. steamer exceefdin 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 twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be of sufficient capacity to contain not less than one hundred cubic inches of water; and such {pumps shall be laced in the most suitable parts of the vessel for e cient 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. On every steamer not exceeding two hundred tons, one of such pumps may be dispensed with. Each fire pump Locaugaficdrequire thus prescribed shall be supplied with Water by means of a suitable m°'"m ‘ pipe connected therewith, an (passing through the side of the vessel so low as to be at all times un er water when she is afloat. Every steamer shall also be provided with a pump which shall be of sufficient strength and suitably arranged to test the boilers thereof." Approved, June 30, 1906.