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RULES AND CONDITIONS ESTABLISHED BY GREAT LAKES REGISTER FOR THE STOWAGE OF GRAIN CARGOES IN BULK. I. All vessels loading grain in bulk or in sacks will be subject to inspection by a surveyor of this association, both before and after the cargo is put on board, but this inspection in no way relieves the master from his responsibility. II. All vessels not fitted with double bottoms for water ballast to have a raised platform fitted upon secure transverse chocks or raised floors, so as to admit of a free course of water to the limbers and pumps, the platform to be made grain tight by calking or covering with burlap or sail cloth in such a manner as to prevent grain from finding its way to the limbers. In flat bottom vessels the platform must be at least 10 inches high at the keelson from the main floors and 12 inches at the bilges, and in no case must the platform be laid on loose dunnage. Ill. All ceilings of vessels loading bulk corn or grain must be calked or wedged from the center line to the deck of the hold in which the corn or grain is stowed, or sheathed with sail cloth as described in Sec. II, and subject to the approval of a surveyor of this association. IV. All pumps within the cargo space should be enclosed by a well of sufficient dimensions to admit of a man passing up and down the well; access thereto should be either by a high coaming and manhole on the upper deck or by a clear passage under deck from the nearest deck hatchway. 'This to apply to all vessels of 300 tons and upward. 15 V. A grain tight bulkhead should be erected at the forepeak of all vessels that are not provided with a proper collision bulkhead. VI. Vessels having a beam of 35 feet and up to 4o feet to be fitted with longitudinal center-line shifting boards, extending from the deck to half the depth of hold. The shifting boards (if of soft wood) to be at least one inch thick, properly secured to both sides of the pillar stanchions. When the center- line pillar stanchions are spaced more than 4 feet apart, extra stanchions must be introduced or the shifting boards increased in thickness, to the satisfaction of a surveyor of this association. VII. Vessels of 40 feet beam and over to have two longitudinal lines of shifting boards instead of the center-line bulkhead mentioned in Section V, spaced half way between the center-line pillar stanchions and the ship's side and extending down to the half depth of hold. These bulkheads to be properly stayed from the center line and the ship's side, to the surveyor's satisfaction. VIII. All between-deck longitudinal bulkheads should extend from deck to deck. Vessels with fully laid second deck and whose depth of hold below the second deck exceeds 1o feet, should be fitted with a longitudinal center-line bulkhead, extending from the second deck to half the depth of hold, as given in Section V above.