MOTOR BOAT. By act of Congress of June 9, 1910, defined to include "every vessel propelled by machinery and not more than 65 feet in length, except tug boats and tow boats propelled by steam." The measure ment is "from end to end over the deck, ex cluding the sheer." The engine, boiler and operating machinery shall be subject to in spection by the local inspectors of steam ves sels and to their approval of the design, on all said motor boats which are more than 40 feet in length and propelled by machinery driven by steam. The act classifies them as follows : Less than 26 feet; 26 feet or over, and less than 40 feet ; 40 feet or over, and not more than 65 feet. They are required in all weathers from sunset to sunrise to carry certain specified lights, and no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited. They shall be pro vided with a "whistle or other sound-produc ing appliance" as •specified ; also, for the latter two classes, an "efficient fog horn" and an "efficient bell" ; also life preservers or life belts or buoyant cushions or ring buoys or other device, prescribed by the secretary of commerce, "sufficient to sustain afloat every person on board, and so placed as to be readily accessible."
Every motor boat and every vessel pro pelled by machinery other than steam, more than 65 feet in length, "shall carry ready for immediate use the means of promptly and effectually extinguishing burning gasoline." The secretary of commerce is required to make such regulations as may be necessary in executing the act. Nothing in the act shall be deemed to alter the acts of congress as to international rules for preventing col lisions at sea.