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 '1`rr1.n xx.vm.——COMMERCI·) AND NAVIGATION .—Ch. —l—5. 815 take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the 'mteci States, and their cargoes. shall be continue . and no longer. Sec. 4229. No other or higher rate of duties shall he imposed or col- _ Vessels of Pruslected on vemels of Prussia, or of her dominions, from whencesoever 29m____ coming, nor on their cargoes, howsoever composed. than are or n1ay be 2* MMG 1828, P- pavab e on vessels of the United States, and their cargoes. lu*”‘2·_‘"4*_p‘3°8‘_ Sec. 4230. The preceding section shall continue and be in force during T§{m*¤¤¤°“ "* (1'1€·t1lll8 that the equality for which it provides shall, in all respects. he pP&L reciprocated in the ports of Prussia and her dominions; and if at any Ibid.,¤.4.p. time hereafter the equality shall not be reciprocated in the ports of Prussia and her dominions, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that fact. and thereupon the section preceding shall cease to he in force. Sec. 4231. From Spanish vessels coming from any port or place in Spanish vessels Spain or her colonies, where no discriminating or conntervailing duties I1 M,,,.__ 1869, { on tonnage are levied upon vessels of the United States, or from any 54 v. 15, p. 282. other port or place to and with which vessels of the United States are ordinarily permitted to go and trade, there shall be exacted in the ports of the l uited States no other or greater duty on tonnage than at the time may be exacted of vessels of the United States. S1-zo. 4232. The mail steamships employed in the mail-service between Mailsteamships the United States and Brazil shall be exempt from all port-charges and {0 P@l·__g__ custom—house clues at the port of departure and arrival in the United 28 May, 1864, c. States if, and so long as, a similar immunity from port-charges and cus- 98· S- 4.*- 13»1>- 9+ tom-house dues is granted hy the government of Brazil. CHAPTER FIVE. NAVIGATION. Sec. Sec. 4233. Rules for preventing collisions. 4243. Superintendents and keepers. 4234. Forfeiture of sailing-vessels for 4244. Crews of surfmen. omission of lights. 4245. Stations at lighthouses. 4235. State regulations of pilots. 4246. Care of boats. 4236. Pilots on boundaries between States. 4247. Keefpers, &c., at stations on coasts 4237. No discrimination in rates of pilot— o Cape Cod and Rhode Island. age. 4248. Supervision of stations on coast of 4238. Vessels stranded on foreign coasts. hode Island. , 4239. Propertywrecked oncoastof Florida. 4249. Stations on coasts of Maine, New 4240. For eitures for taking such property Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virto foreign port. ginia, &c. 4241. License to wrevkers on Florida 4230. Removal of captain by owners of coast. vessels. 4242. Life-saving stations on coasts of 4251. Canal-boats not to be liheled for Long Island, &c. wages. Sec. 4233. The following rules for preventing collisions on the water, Rqles for preshall he followed in the navigation of vessels of the Navy and of the "°”**¤8 °°ll'¤*°¤¤· mercantile marine of the United States: 29 April, 1864, c. 69, v. 13, p. 58.- STEAM Asn san. v1·:ssm,s. Q‘:gKPg;’g:";°£: Rule one. Every steam-vessel which is under sail, and not under ?8;1°l!j·hi 1,2:11; steam, shall beconsidered a sail-vessel; and every steam-vessel which banks, 9 Wall., is under steam. whether lll1d?]' sail or not, shall be considered a steam— 420; Thé Corsica, vcssep 9 \\ all., 630; The Scotia, 14 Wall., 170; The Continental, 14 Wall., 345; The Chesapeake, 5 Blatcb., 411; The Huntsville, 8 Blatch., 228; The Peunsvlvania, 19 Wall., 125; The Sunnyside, 91 U. S., 208; The John L. Hasbrouck, 93 U. S., 405; The D. P., (Kelley z·. Thompson,) 1 Low., 124; Carlton Can, 10 C. Cls., 485; The Santiago de Cuba., 10 Blatch., 444; The Atlas, 10 Blatch., 459; The Narragansett, 10 Blatch., 47 ; The Bristol, 10 Blatch., 537; The Leo, 11 Blatch., 35; The Hnmmonia, 11 Blatch., 413; The Porter, 2 Dill., 146; The Vancouver, 2 Saw., I 1.