...7, 1838 (5 Stat. L., 304), the first legislation enacted by the national government looking toward the "better security of the lives of passengers on...board of vessels'- propelled in whole or in part by steam." Owners, or masters of such vessels were required to employ a cortapetehf number of experienced...

...insure the safety of passengers and cargoes transported by water. 2. History In 1838 Congress passed an act "to provide for the better security of the...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." * By this act seagoing steam vessels and steam vessels plying the Great Lakes, were required...

...legislation for the protection of immigrants at sea until 1847, though Congress did on July 7, 1838 pass *An Act to provide for the better security of the...lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in (6) . whole or in part by steam.11 This act provided for the inspection of the hulls, boilers, etc.,...

...lays its strong restraint upon local carelessuess and individual cupidity, by the act of July 7, 1838, "to provide for the better security of the lives of...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam."— 5 Stat. at L. 304. Your committee allnde to iliis familiar series of legislation in the...

...organizations in the Federal Government, was established by act of Congress in 1838, as a means toward "the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." Later legislation enlarged the scope of the service and brought it under the direction of the...

...5344 is the culmination had its origin In the act of congress of July 7, 1838, (5 Stat. 304,) entitled "An act to provide for the better security of the...vessels propelled In whole or In part by steam." It was extended by the act of February 28, 1871, (16 Stat 458, § 57,) and the provision in its present...

...America whereby the latter boat was wholly destroyed by fire. The 29th section of the act of Congress, " to provide for the better security of the lives of...board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam," approved August 30, 1852, provides as follows : "That it shall be the duty of the supervising...

...assembled, That the fifth division of the ninth section of an act entitled " An Act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the better security of the lives...passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or part by steam and for other purposes," approved August thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and...

...tankers. The seriousness of the situation led to the enactment by Congress in 1838 of a statute called "An Act to Provide for the Better Security of the...Board of Vessels Propelled in Whole or in Part by Steam." This act created what was known for many years as the "Steamboat Inspection Service." With...

...CiUT.CVL— An Act to Attend an act entitled "An Act to provide for the better Sccu- August 80, 1862. rity of the lives of Passengers on board of Vessels propelled in whole or in part ly Steam " ami for otAar purposes, (a) 1838, ch. 191. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative*...