An Act Authorizing Provincial Boards of Provinces Operating Launches for the Use of their Provincial Officers to Make Reasonable Charges for Transportation of Nonofficial Passengers and Freight and Authorizing the Carrying of Unofficial Passengers and Cargoes under Certain Circumstances on Boats Controlled by the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation, and Repealing Act Numbered Eight Hundred and Twenty-Nine

March 22, 1904

ACT NO. 1090

AN ACT AUTHORIZING PROVINCIAL BOARDS OF PROVINCES OPERATING LAUNCHES FOR THE USE OF THEIR PROVINCIAL OFFICERS TO MAKE REASONABLE CHARGES FOR TRANSPORTATION OF NONOFFICIAL PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT AND AUTHORIZING THE CARRYING OF UNOFFICIAL PASSENGERS AND CARGOES UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES ON BOATS CONTROLLED BY THE BUREAU OF COAST GUARD AND TRANSPORTATION, AND REPEALING ACT NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE

SECTION 1. In any province in which the provincial board is maintaining a launch or other vessel for the transportation of its officers and for other public purposes, the provincial board is authorized to transport nonofficial passengers and freight from one place in the province to another and to fix a reasonable tariff for such carriage and to adopt regulations to govern the officers in charge of such launch or other vessel in respect to the transportation of nonofficial passengers and freight: Provided, however, That nonofficial passengers and freight shall be received only when consistent with the carriage of all official passengers and freight, and that the business hereby authorized to be done by the provincial board with its official launch shall be so arranged as not to compete with regular commercial lines transporting passengers or freight between points in the same province, it being the intent of this section merely to permit the provincial board to supply transportation for the public where the same can not be otherwise obtained. All moneys received by virtue of this section shall be paid into the provincial treasury and shall be considered as provincial funds available for expenditure by the provincial board, as provided by law, for the general purposes of the provincial government.

SECTION 2. The Secretary of Commerce and Police is hereby empowered to authorize, in his discretion, the carrying of nonofficial passengers and freight on boats controlled by the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation, subject to the general limitation and restrictions set forth in section one of this Act regarding launches operated by provincial boards. The tariff and regulations for the transportation of nonofficial passengers and freight on Coast Guard boats shall be fixed by the Chief of the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police. All moneys received by virtue of the provisions of this section for the transportation of passengers and cargoes on any Coast Guard boat, shall be paid over to the disbursing officer of the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation and by him covered into the Insular Treasury to the credit of "miscellaneous receipts."

SECTION 3. Act Numbered Eight hundred and twenty-nine is hereby repealed. aScITE

SECTION 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, March 22, 1904.