TREATIES thereof, the same as if the said additional paragraph had been originally included therein and the said Section (2) had read as follows: "(2) In addition to the ordinary bilge pump, worked by the main engines, or its equivalent engne-room pump, two inde- pendent power bilge pumps shall be provided, except that in ships less than 300 feet (91.5 meters) in length, having a criterion numeral less than 30, either two efficient hand pumps of the crank type fitted one forward and one. aft, or a portable. power pump, may be substituted for one of the additional independent power bilge pumps. "In all cases an additional independent power pump shall be fitted when the criterion numeral exceeds 30. "Sanitary, ballast, and general service pumps may be accepted as independent power bilge pumps if fitted with the necessary connections to the bilge pumping system." IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sEL] thirty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELt. HULL Secretary of State.
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