Sec. fishing boats not to obstruct fair-ways. 7866. (Art. 27.) Obedience to and construction of rules. SOUND SIGNALS FOR VESSELS IN SIGHT OF ONE ANOTHER 7867. (Art. 28.) Meaning of "short blast"; steam-vessel under way to signal her course by whistle; meaning of one, two, three "short blasts." NO VESSEL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, TO NEGLECT PROPER PRECAUTIONS 7868. (Art. 29.) Vessels not to neglect precautions. RESERVATION OF RULES FOR HARBORS AND INLAND NAVIGATION 7869. (Art. 30.) Reservation of rules for harbors, rivers, and inland waters. DISTRESS SIGNALS 7870. (Art. 31.) Distress signals, in day time; at night. 7871. Repeal. RULES FOR HARBORS, RIVERS, AND INLAND WATERS 7872. Regulations for preventing collisions in harbors and on inland waters. PRELIMINARY 7873. Meaning of words "sailing-vessel," "steam-vessel," and "under way." RULES CONCERNING LIGHTS, AND SO FORTH 7874. Meaning of word "visible." 7875. (Art. 1.) Period of compliance with rules concerning lights. 7876. (Art. 2.) Lights of steam-vessel under way. 7877. (Art. 3.) Steam-vessel when towing another vessel or vessels. 7878. (Art. 5.) Sailing-vessel under way or in tow. 7879. (Art. 6.) Small vessel under way in bad weather. 7880. (Art. 7.) Rowboats. 7881. (Art. 8.) Pilot-vessels on and off pilotage duty. 7882. (Art. 9.) Small fishing-vessels. 7883. (Art. 10.) Vessel overtaken by an other. 7884. (Art. 11.) Vessel at anchor. 7885. (Art. 12.) Additional lights. Sec. 7886. (Art. 13.) Ships of war and con voys. 7887. (Art. 14.) Steam-vessel under sail only. SOUND SIGNALS FOR FOG, AND SO FORTH 7888. (Art. 15.) Fog signals. SPEED OF SHIPS TO BE MODERATE IN FOG, AND SO FORTH 7889. (Art. 16.) Speed of vessels in fog, etc. STEERING AND SAILING RULES Preliminary-Risk of Collision 7890. Ascertainment of risk of collision. 7891. (Art. 17.) Rules of avoidance of risk; two sailing-vessels approaching one another. 7892. (Art. 18.) Two steam-vessels meeting end on, etc. 7893. (Art. 19.) Steam-vessels crossing. 7894. (Art. 20.) Steam and sailing vessels meeting. 7895. (Art. 21.) What vessel shall keep her course, etc. 7896. (Art. 22.) Vessel to avoid crossing ahead. 7914. (Rule 4.) Steam-vessel having a vessel in tow. 7915. (Rule 5.) Steam-vessel having a raft in tow. 7916. (Rule 6.) Sailing-vessel under way or vessel in tow. 7917. (Rule 7.) Rules to be made for tugs, etc. 7918. (Rule 8.) Small vessel may use portable lights. 7919. (Rule 9.) Vessel at anchor. 7920. (Rule 10.) Produce, canal, etc., boats. 7921. (Rule 11.) Open boats. 7922. (Rule 12.) Use of torch. 7923. (Rule 13.) War and revenue ships. 7936. (Rule 26.) Refusal to pass. 7937. (Rule 27.) Obedience to and construction of rules. 7938. (Rule 28.) Vessels not to neglect precautions. 7939. Violations of provisions of this act; penalty. 7940. Regulations; steam-vessels passing; copies of rules. 7941. Repeal. RULES FOR RED RIVER OF THE NORTH AND RIVERS EMPTYING INTO GULF OF MEXICO 7942. Rules for preventing collisions. STEAM AND SAIL VESSELS 7943. (Rule 1.) Meaning of words "sail vessel" and "steam vessel." LIGHTS 7944. (Rule 2.) Period of compliance with rules concerning lights. 7945. (Rule 3.) Lights of ocean steamers, and steamers carrying sail, under way. 7946. (Rule 4.) Steam-vessel towing other vessels. 7947. (Rule 5.) Steam-vessels other than ocean steamers, and steamers carrying sail. 7948. (Rule 6.) Vessels on waters flowing into Gulf of Mexico. 7949. (Rule 7.) Coasting and inland waters steam-vessels, ferryboats, barges, and canal-boats. 7950. (Rule 8.) Sailing-vessels under way or in tow. 7951. (Rule 9.) Small vessels in bad weather. 7952. (Rule 10.) Vessels at anchor. 7953. (Rule 11.) Sailing and steam pi lot-vessels. 7954. (Rule 12.) Coal boats, trading boats, etc. 7955. (Rule 13.) Open boats. 7956. (Rule 14.) Ships of war and revenue cutters. FOG SIGNALS 7957. (Rule 15.) Fog signals. STEERING AND SAILING RULES 7958. (Rule 16.) Ascertainment of risk of collision. 7983. No discrimination in rates of pi- WRECKS AND SALVAGE 7984. Vessels on foreign coast of coasts. 7985. Property wrecked on Florida. 7986. Forfeitures for taking wrecked property to foreign ports. 7987. License to wreckers on Florida coast. 7988. Canadian vessels may aid vessels 7989. International agreement for re- 7993. Time limit for salvage suits. PART OWNER AND MASTER 7995. Removal of captain by owners of vessels. WAGES ON CANAL BOATS 7996. Canal-boats not to be libeled for wages. PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF § 7833. (Act June 28, 1902, c. 1306.) International Commission of Congresses of Navigation; expenses of delegates. The sum of three thousand dollars a year is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the permanent international commission of the congresses of navigation and for the payment of the actual expenses of the properly accredited national delegates of the United States to the meetings of the congresses and of the commis sion; and that the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant each year upon the Secretary of the Treasury for such sum, not to exceed three thousand dollars, as may in his opinion be proper to apply to the purposes above mentioned, and that the said sum shall be disbursed under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. The national delegates aforesaid from the United States shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred while traveling to and from the meetings, and while in attendance thereon, from the funds herein appropriated and authorized to be expended. (32 Stat. 485.) This was an act to appropriate the sum of $3,000 a yea for the support and maintenance of the Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of navigation, and for other purposes. INTERNATIONAL RULES FOR PREVENTING § 7834. (Act Aug. 19, 1890, c. 802, § 1.) Regulations for preventing collisions. The following regulations for preventing collisions at sea shall be followed by all public and private vessels of the United States upon the high seas and in all waters connected therewith, navigable by sea-going vessels. (26 Stat. 320.) This was the first paragraph of section 1 of an act entitled "An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea." Further paragraphs of this section containing definitions, etc., and Articles 1-31 thereof, containing the rules prescribed, are set forth post, §§ 78357870. Section 2 of the act, repealing laws inconsistent with said regulations, is set forth post, § 7871. Section 3 of said act provided that the act should take effect at a time to be fixed by the President by proclamation issued for that purpose. Accordingly, the President, on July 13, 1894, issued his proclamation (28 Stat. 1250), fixing March 1, 1895, as the date on which the act should take effect; but the taking effect of the act at that time was postponed, and the President was authorized to fix a subsequent time when it should take effect, by Act Feb. 23, 1895, c. 127, 28 Stat. 680; and the President on February 25, 1895, issued his proclamation that the act would not go into effect on March 1st, following, but on such future date as might be designated in a subsequent proclamation. The act was amended by Act June 10, 1896, c. 401, § 1, and section 2 of said amendatory act, 29 Stat. 382, provided that this act should take effect at a time to be fixed by the President. The President, on December 31, 1896, issued his proclamation (29 Stat. 885) fixing July 1, 1897, as the date on which the act should take effect. Rules for preventing collisions on the water were prescribed by R. S. § 4233, to be followed by vessels of the navy and mercantile marine of the United States. They were superseded as to navigation on the high seas and in all coast waters of the United States, except such as were otherwise provided for, by the adoption of "Revised International Regulations" by Act March 3, 1885, c. 354, 23 Stat. 438; and those regulations were superseded by the adoption by this act of the regulations set forth here. The acts of Congress embodying or revising international rules for preventing collisions at sea were not altered or amended by Act June 9, 1910, c. 268, post, §§ 8277-8286, relating to motor boats and prescribing lights, signals, etc., for such boats, by section 9 of said act, post, § 8286. PRELIMINARY § 7835. (Act Aug. 19, 1890, c. 802, § 1.) Meaning of words "sailing-vessel," "steam-vessel," and "under way.' In the following rules every steam-vessel which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing-vessel, and every vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a steamvessel. The word "steam-vessel" shall include any vessel propelled by machinery. A vessel is "under way" within the meaning of these rules when she is not at anchor, or made fast to the shore, or aground. (26 Stat. 320.) RULES CONCERNING LIGHTS, AND SO FORTH § 7836. (Act Aug. 19, 1890, c. 802, § 1.) Meaning of word “visible." The word "visible" in these rules when applied to lights shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere. (26 Stat. 321.) § 7837. (Act Aug. 19, 1890, c. 802, § 1.) (Art. 1.) Time for compliance with rules concerning lights. The rules concerning lights shall be complied with in all weathers from sunset to sunrise, and during such time no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited. . (26 Stat. 321.) § 7838. (Act Aug. 19, 1890, c. 802, § 1.) (Art. 2.) Lights of steam vessels under way. A steam-vessel when under way shall carry-(a) On or in front of the foremast, or if a vessel without a foremast, then in the fore part of the vessel, at a height above the hull of not less than twenty feet, and if the breadth of the vessel exceeds twenty feet, then at a height above the hull not less than such breadth, so, however, that the light need not be carried at a greater height above the hull than forty feet, a bright white light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles. (b) On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.' (c) On the port side a red light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. |