Executive Order 1680

To Amend the Executive Order Providing for the Inspection of Steam Vessels, Approved July 21, 1911.

By virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby establish the following Order for the Canal Zone:

Section 1. Section 10 of the Executive Order entitled "Executive Order Providing for the Inspection of Steam Vessels," approved July 21, 1911, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 10. Before issuing an inspection certificate to any vessel, the Collector of Revenues shall demand and receive from the owner or master of such vessel the following compensation for inspection and examination made for the year, in addition to any fees for issuing enrollments and licenses now, or which may hereafter be, allowed by law:

For each steam vessel under 15 gross tons........................................................ $5.00

For each steam vessel over 15 gross tons and not exceeding 100 gross tons... 10.00

For each and every gross tons in excess of 100 gross tons................................... .05

The fees herein provided for shall cover the cost of the certificate, as well as the cost of inspection and examination of the vessel, and shall be for the use and benefit of the Canal Zone Government.

Section 2. Section 18 of the above-mentioned Executive Order is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 18. Every vessel coming within the provisions of this Order shall be provided with such number of lifeboats, floats, rafts, life-preservers, line carrying projectiles and best means of propelling them, lights, drags, anchors, and with such other equipment, as, in the judgment of the Board of Local Inspectors, will best procure the safety of all persons on board such vessels in case of disaster. And every such vessel shall have the lifeboats required by this Order provided with suitable boat disengaging apparatus, so arranged as to allow such boats to be safely launched while such vessels are under speed, or otherwise, so as to allow such disengaging apparatus to be operated by one person, disengaging both ends of the boat simultaneously from the tackle by which it may be lowered to the water; and the Board of Local Inspectors shall determine the kind of lifeboats, floats, rafts, life-preservers, line carrying projectiles and means of propelling the same, lights, drags, anchors, and other equipment which are to be used on the vessel; and also the kind and capacity of the pumps for freeing the vessel from water in case of heavy leakage, the capacity of such pumps being suited to the navigation in which the vessel is employed.

Section 3. This order shall take effect thirty days from this date.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

January 13, 1913.