RULE VIII.-When steamers are running in the same direction, and the pilot of the boat which is astern shall desire to pass either side of the boat ahead, he shall give the signal as in Rule I, and the pilot of the boat ahead shall answer by the same signal, or if he prefer to keep on his course, he shall make the necessary signals, and the best wishing to pass must govern herself accordingly; but the boat ahead shall in no case attempt to cross her bow or crowd upon her course.

RULE IX.-When boats are moving from their docks or berths, and other boats are hable to pass from any direction towards them, they shall give the same signal as in case of boats meeting at a bend; but immediately after clearing the berth so as to be fully in sight, they shall be governed by Rule II.

RULE X.-All barges, when towed by steamers and navigated between sunset and sunrise, shall have their signal-lights, as required by law, placed in a suitable manner on the starboard bow of the starboard barge and on the port bow of the port barge, which lights shall not be less than ten feet above the surface of the water.

RULE XI.-Steamers descending the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, between Louisville, Kentucky, and New Orleans, Louisiana, shall not run down any island chute, either by day or night, except those herein or hereinafter designated, unless such chutes are the usual channel of the river.

RULE XII.-The following island chutes may be navigated by descending steamers on the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky, and Cairo, Illinois, when the river shall be sufficiently high for them to do so with safety, viz: Blue River Island, Diamond Island, Golconda Island, Sister Islands, Stewart's Island, and Cumberland Island, either by day or night, and Wabash Island chute by daylight only.

RULE XIII.-All steamers descending the Mississippi River between Cairo and New Orleans may, in daylight, run any chute which has sufficient water for the purpose, and is free from obstructions.

RULE XIV. All steamers descending the Mississippi River between Cairo and New Orleans during the time between sunset and sunrise, must keep the main channel, except in times of high water.

RULE XV.-Ascending steamers are not prohibited from running any island chutes. RULE XVI.-Sigual-lights for steamers under way are provided by law as follows,

the same to be carried between sunset and sunrise:

For ocean steamers and steamers carrying sail, a bright white light at the foremast head, to throw the light through ten points of the compass on each side of the ship, viz, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam, and to be visible at least five miles. On the starboard side a green light, and on the port side a red light, each to throw the light through ten points of the compass on their respective sides, viz, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam, and to be visible at least two miles. These colored lights are to be fitted with inboard screens, projecting at least three feet forward from the light, to prevent them from being seen across the bow.

For steamers navigating waters flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, a red light on the outboard side of the port smoke-pipe, and a green light on the outboard side of the starboard smoke-pipe- these lights to show both forward and abeam on their respective sides.

For coasting steamers and those navigating bays, lakes, or other inland waters, other than ferry-boats and those above provided for, the red and green side-lights as prescribed for ocean steamers, and a central range of two white lights, the after light being carried at an elevation of at least fifteen feet above the light at the head of the vessel; the head-light to show through twenty points of the compass, viz, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side of the vessel; and the after light to show all around the horizon.

For steamers towing other vessels, the colored lights will be the same as prescribed for ocean steamers; and two white mast-lights shall also be carried vertically, to distinguish them from other steamers; the white lights to show through twenty points of the compass, viz, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side of the vessel; white lights shall also be placed on the extreme outside of the tow on either hand, and also on the extreme afterpart of the same.

BULE XVII-A bright white light not exceeding twenty feet above the hull shall be exhibited by all steamers, when at anchor, between sunset and sunrise, in a globular lantern of eight inches in diameter, so placed as to throw a good light all around the horizon.

RULE XVIII.-Steam ferry-boats with two chimneys shall, in all cases, carry the same signal-lights as passenger steamers.

KULE XIX.—All other steamers, ferry or otherwise, having but one chimney, shall have brackets securely fastened to each side of the same, so as to carry the red and green lights the same as passenger steamers.

RULE XX.-When the license of a pilot is suspended or revoked he shall not act as steersman, or take part in the navigation of any steamer, during the time for which his license has been suspended or revoked.

RULE XXI.—The following points and bends in the Chattahoochie, Flint, and Apa

lachicola Rivers, in the States of Florida and Georgia, are considered dangerous, and steamboats when navigating down stream must not make them "by the run:"

Short's Roads, Munroe's, Francis, upper and lower, Grace's, Prospect Bluff, Fort Gaines, T. T. Smith, and Smith and King's Rocks, on the Chattahoochie; Horseshoe, upper and lower, on the Flint; Devil's Elbow, upper and lower, and Cold Shades, on the Apalachicola.

RULE XXII.-The line dividing jurisdiction between pilot rules on western rivers and lakes and seaboard at New Orleans shall be a line drawn directly across the river from Jackson monument in Jackson square.

RULES RECOMMENDING CERTAIN FOG-SIGNALS TO BE OBSERVED BY STEAMERS, SAILING-VESSELS, AND OTHER CRAFT.

Every steamer, when under way, shall use a steam-whistle. Sailing-vessels, and all other craft propelled by sails, shall use a fog-horn.

Whenever there is a fog, whether by day or night, the fog-signals described below shall be sounded.

Sailing-vessels, and every craft propelled by sails, upon the ocean, lakes, and rivers, shall, when on their starboard tack, sound one blast of their fog-horn; when on their port tack, they shall sound two blasts of their fog-horn; when with the wind free, or running large, they shall sound three blasts of their fog-horn; when lying-to or at anchor, they shall sound the bell. In each instance the above signals shall be sounded at intervals of not more than two minutes.

Sailing-vessels, when not under way, and anchored or moored in the channel or fairway of commerce, shall sound the bell signal at intervals of not more than two minutes; and all steamers navigating in a fog or thick weather shall, by the rules governing pilots, sound their steam-whistle at intervals of not more than one minute. Sailing-vessels shall at all times, on the approach of any steamer during the nighttime, show a lighted torch upon that point or quarter to which such steamer shall be approaching. And upon any craft navigating rivers without being in tow of a steamer, such as rafts, flat-boats, wood-boats, and other like craft, they shall sound a fog-horn at intervals of not more than two minutes.

It shall at all times be the duty of steamers to give to the sailing-vessel, or other craft propelled by sails, every advantage, and keep out of her way.

NEW RULES.

At the court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 14th day of August, 1879. Present: the Queen's most excellent majesty in council.

Whereas, by "the merchant shipping act amendment act, 1862," it was enacted that on and after the 1st day of June, 1863, or such later day as might be fixed for the purpose by order in council, the regulations contained in the table marked C in the schedule to the said act should come into operation, and be of the same force as if they were enacted in the body of the said act; but that Her Majesty might from time to time, on the joint recommendation of the admiralty and the board of trade, by order in council, annul or modify any of the said regulations, or make new regulations in addition thereto or in substitution therefor; and that any alterations in or additions to such regulations made in manner aforesaid should be of the same force as the regulations in the said schedule;

And whereas, by the same act, it was further provided that whenever it should be made to appear to Her Majesty that the government of any foreign country was willing that the regulations for preventing collisions contained in Table C in the schedule to the said act, or such other regulations for preventing collisions as are for the time being in force under the said act, should apply to the ships of such country when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction, Her Majesty might, by order in council, direct that such regulations should apply to the ships of the said foreign country, whether within British jurisdiction or not; and it was further provided by the said act that whenever an order in council had been issued applying any regulation made by or in pursuance of the said act to the ships of any foreign country, such ships should, in all cases arising in any British court, be deemed to be subject to such regulation, and should, for the purpose of such regulation, be treated as if they were British ships;

And whereas, by an order in council made in pursuance of the said recited act, and dated the 9th day of January, 1863, Her Majesty was pleased to direct-first, that the regulations contained in the schedule to the said act should be modified by the substitution for such regulations of certain regulations appended to the said order; secondly, that the said regulations appended to the said order should, on and after the

1st day of June, 1863, apply to French ships, whether within British jurisdiction or not;

And whereas, by several orders in council subsequently made, Her Majesty was pleased to direct that the regulations appended to the said order of the 9th of January, 1863, should apply to ships of the countries specified in the said orders, whether within British jurisdiction or not;

And whereas, by order in council dated the 30th day of July, 1868, Her Majesty, on the joint recommendation of the admiralty and the board of trade, was pleased to make certain additions to the regulations appended to the said first-recited order in council, for the purpose of explaining Articles 11 and 13 of the said regulations, and of removing doubt and misapprehension concerning the effect of the said two articles; And whereas the admiralty and the board of trade have jointly recommended to Her Majesty that the regulations contained in the order in council dated the 9th day of January, 1863, and the additions to the said regulations contained in the said order in council of the 30th day of July, 1868, shall be annulled from the 1st day of September, 1880, and that there shall be substituted for the said regulations and additions respectively the new regulations hereinafter set forth;

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the governments of the several foreign countries mentioned in the second schedule hereto are respectively willing that the regulations contained in the first schedule hereto shall apply to ships of the said countries respectively, whether within British jurisdiction or not:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said recited act, and by and with the advice of her privy council, is pleased to direct-

First, that on and after the 1st day September, 1880, the regulations appended to the said order in council on the 9th day of January, 1863, and the additions to the said regulations contained in the said order in council of the 30th day of July, 1868, shall be annulled, and that there shall be substituted for the said regulations and additions respectively the new regulations contained in the first schedule hereto.

Second, that the said regulations contained in the said first schedule hereto shall, from and after the 1st day of September, 1880, apply to ships of the countries mentioned in the said second schedule hereto, whether within British jurisdiction or not. C. L. PEEL.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA.

ARTICLE 1.
Preliminary.

In the following rules every steamship which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing-ship; and every steamship which is under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a ship under steam.

ARTICLE 2.

Rules concerning lights.

The lights mentioned in the following articles, numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, and no others, shall be carried in all weathers from sunset to sunrise.

ARTICLE 3.

A seagoing steamship when under way shall carry—

(4) On or in front of the foremast, at a height above the hull of not less than 20 feet, and if the breadth of the ship exceeds 20 feet then at a height above the hull not less than such breadth, a bright white light, so constructed as to show an uniform and broken light over an arc of the horizon of 20 points of the compass; so fixed as to throw the light 10 points on each side of the ship, viz, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side; and of such a character as to be visible on a dark Light, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least five miles.

On the starboard side, a green light so constructed as to show an uniform and broken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass; so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the starboard side; and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at Adistance of at least two miles.

On the port side, a red light, so constructed as to show an uniform and unen light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass; so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the port side; and of cha character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a dislace of at least two miles.

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(d) The said green and red side lights shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least three feet forward from the light, so as to prevent these lights from being seen across the bow.

ARTICLE 4.

A steamship, when towing another ship, shall, in addition to her side lights, carry two bright white lights in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart, so as to distinguish her from other steamships. Each of these lights shall be of the same construction and character, and shall be carried in the same position as the white light which other steamships are required to carry.

ARTICLE 5.

A ship, whether a steamship or a sailing-ship, when employed either in laying or in picking up a telegraph cable, or which from any accident is not under command, shall at night carry, in the same position as the white light which steamships are required to carry, and, if a steamship, in place of that light, three red lights in globular lanterns, each not less than 10 inches in diameter, in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart; and shall by day carry in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart, in front of but not lower than her foremast head, three black balls or shapes, each two feet in diameter.

These shapes and lights are to be taken by approaching ships as signals that the ship using them is not under command, and cannot therefore get out of the way.

The above ships, when not making any way through the water, shall not carry the side lights, but when making way shall carry them.

ARTICLE 6.

A sailing-ship under way, or being towed, shall carry the same lights as are provided by article 3 for a steamship under way, with the exception of the white light, which she shall never carry.

ARTICLE 7.

Whenever, as in the case of small vessels during bad weather, the green and red side lights cannot be fixed, these lights shall be kept on deck, on their respective sides of the vessel, ready for use; and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side.

To make the use of these, portable lights more certain and easy, the lanterns containing them shall each be painted outside with the color of the light they respectively contain, and shall be provided with proper screens.

ARTICLE 8.

A ship, whether a steamship or a sailing-ship, when at anchor, shall carry, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull, a white light, in a globular lantern of not less than eight inches in diameter, and so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.

ARTICLE 9.

A pilot vessel, when engaged on her station on pilotage duty, shall not carry the lights required for other vessels, but shall carry a white light at the masthead, visible all round the horizon, and shall also exhibit a flare-up light or flare-up lights at short intervals, which shall never exceed fifteen minutes.

A pilot vessel, when not engaged on her station on pilotage duty, shall carry lights similar to those of other ships.

ARTICLE 10.

(a) Open fishing-boats and other open boats when under way shall not be obliged to carry the side lights required for other vessels; but every such boat shall in lieu thereof have ready at hand a lantern with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other side; and on the approach of or to other vessels such lantern shall be exhibited, in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side, nor the red light on the starboard side.

(b) A fishing-vessel, and an open boat, when at anchor, shall exhibit a bright white light.

(c) A fishing-vessel, when employed in drift-net fishing, shall carry on one of her masts two red lights in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart.

‹ď) A trawler at work shall carry on one of her masts two lights in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart, the upper light red and the lower green, and shall also either carry the side lights required for other vessels, or, if the side lights cannot be carried, have ready at hand the colored lights, as provided in article 7, or a lantern with a red and a green glass, as described in paragraph (a) of this

article.

(e) Fishing-vessels and open boats shall not be prevented from using a flare-up in addition, if they desire to do so.

4) The lights mentioned in this article are substituted for those mentioned in the 12th, 13th, and 14th articles of the convention between France and England scheduled to the British Sea Fisheries Act, 1868.

e) All lights required by this article, except side lights, shall be in globular lantems, so constructed as to show all round the horizon.

ARTICLE 11.

A ship which is being overtaken by another shall show from her stern to such lastmentioned ship a white light or a flare-up light.

Sound signals for fog, &c.

ARTICLE 12.

A steamship shall be provided with a steam-whistle or other efficient steam sound signal, so placed that the sound may not be intercepted by any obstructions, and with an efficient fog-horn to be sounded by a bellows or other mechanical means, and also with an efficient bell. A sailing-ship shall be provided with a similar fog-horn and bell.

In fog, mist, or falling snow, whether by day or night, the signals described in this article shall be used as follows; that is to say:

(a) A steamship under way shall make with her steam-whistle, or other steam sound signal, at intervals of not more than two minutes, a prolonged blast.

(b) A sailing-ship under way shall make with her fog-horn, at intervals of not more than two minutes, when on the stairboard tack one blast, when on the port tack two blasts in succession, and when with the wind abaft the beam three blasts in succession.

(c) A steam ship and sailing-ship, when not under way, shall, at intervals of not more than two minutes, ring the bell.

ARTICE 13.

Speed of ships to be moderate in fog, &c.

Every ship, whether sailing-ship or steamship, shall, in a fog, mist, or falling snow, go at a moderate speed. ARTICLE 14.

Steering and sailing rules.

When two sailing-ships are approaching one another, so as to involve risk of collision, one of them shall keep out of the way of the other, as follows, viz:

(a) A ship which is running free shall keep out of the way of a ship which is closehauled.

(b) A ship which is close-hauled on the port tack shall keep out of the way of a ship which is close-hauled on the starboard tack.

(e) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the ship which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.

(d) When both are running free, with the wind on the same side, the ship which is to windward shall keep out of the way of the ship which is to leeward.

(e) A ship which has the wind aft shall keep out of the way of the other ship.

ARTICLE 15.

If two ships under steam are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.

This article only applies to cases where ships are meeting end on, or nearly end on, in such a manner as to involve risk of collision, and does not apply to two ships which must, if both keep on their respective courses, pass clear of each other.

The only cases to which it does not apply are, when each of the two ships is end on, or nearly end on, to the other; in other words, to cases in which, by day, each ship sees the masts of the other in a line, or nearly in a line, with her own; and, by night, to cases in which each ship is in such a position as to see both the side lights of the other.