Motorboat Bills: Hearings...on H.R. 5629, 7089, 8839, 100571938 - 103 pages |
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15 gross tons 200 gross tons 65 feet Act of June application approval April 19 board of supervising Bureau of Marine Bureau of Navigation carburetor carrying passengers CHAIRMAN coast Committee on Merchant Congress court D. C. MY DEAR deck department devices Diesel engaged exclusively exclusively for pleasure exempt Federal Trade Commission feet in length fifteen gross tons fire extinguishers gasoline HENDRICKS House of Representatives inland waters Inspection and Navigation internal-combustion engines June 9 legislation licensed officers Marine and Fisheries Marine Inspection Merchant Marine motorboat bill motorboat of class motorboat or vessel motorboats and vessels navigator or person outboard engines outboard motors owner passengers for hire penalty person in charge pilot rules pleasure boats powered vessels preventing collisions required to carry safety Secretary of Commerce section 12 sixty-five feet steam vessels suggested supervising inspectors tion towboats tugboats tugs United vessel as defined vessel propelled vessels of less Washington
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Page 76 - ... the board of supervising inspectors, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce...
Page 57 - motor boat," where used in this Act, shall include every vessel propelled by machinery and not more than sixty-five feet in length, except tugboats and towboats propelled by steam. The length shall be measured from end to end over the deck, excluding sheer: Provided, That the engine, boiler or other operating machinery shall be subject to inspection by the local...
Page 51 - A bright white light in the fore part of the vessel as near the stem as practicable, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel ; namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side.