Smoot v. District of Columbia

Citations

• 23 App. D.C. 266
• 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 5252

Syllabus

<p>Police Regulations; Licenses; Steam Deedge.</p> <p>1. The owner of a steam dredge who uses it in his business of dredging and unloading and loading his scows in the Potomac river opposite Georgetown, about 4 feet from the end of a wharf, and employs a man to run the engine aboard the dredge, knowing that the man is not regularly licensed as a steam engineer, violates the act of Congress of February 28, 1887 (24 Stat. at L. 427, chap. 272), which provides that any owner of a steam engine who knowingly employs a steam engineer, as such, who has not been regularly licensed to act as such, shall on conviction by the police court of the District of Columbia be fined, etc., that act applying to the whole District including that portion of the Potomac river within the District.</p> <p>2. The entire Potomac river, within the limits of the District of Columbia, is subject to the legislative control of Congress, as well in respect to matters of police as to all other subjects of legislation.</p>