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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 802. 1890. 323 beam on their respective sides. Such lantern shall be carried not less than three feet below the white light. SGCOIIG. Small Steam-b0atS, Such as are carried by sea-going vessels, Small steam-boats. may carry the white light at a less height than nine feet a ove the _P0¤m¤¤ et wmw the gunwale, but it shall be carried above the combined lantern men- l"h°‘ tioned in subdivision one (b). ' Third. Vessels under oars or sails, of less than twenty tons, shall 0,‘;,,°°,f;’s‘“”d°' °°’° have ready at hand a lantern with a green glass on one side and a rm-mine gm!. mm red lglass on the other, which, on the approach of or to other vessels, '°‘"‘“"’"" sha 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., The vessels referred to in this article shall not be obliged to carry Limitation eruguu. the lghts prescribed by article four (a) and article eleven, last paragrap . ART. 8. Pilot vessels when engaged on their station on pilotage duty M1;¤g<;¤dv¤¤¤¤¤ <>¤ rishall not show the lights require for other vessels, but shal carry my a white light at the masthead, visible all around the horizon, and · shall also exhibit a iiare-up light or flare-up lights at short intervals, which shall never exceed fteen minutes. On the near approach of or to other vessels they shall have their  cumside-lights lgigh, ready for use, and shall flash or show them at ‘ short interv, to indicate the direction in which they are heading, but the green light shall not be shown on the port si e, nor the red light on the starboard side. A pilot-vessel of such a class as to be obliged to go alongside of a sm. u ge um- ·vesse to put a pilot on board may show the white light instead. of d°°’°°°‘ carrying It at the masthead, and may, instead of the colored lights above mentioned, have at hand, ready for use, a lantern with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other, to be used as prescribed above. _ Pilot—vessels when not engaged on their station on plilotage duty when not on 1>¤<>¢» shall carry lights similar to those of other vessels of their tonnage. "’—‘°“‘"" Anr. 9. Fishing vessels and tishing boats when under way and mmmgfhugf when not require by this article to carry or show the lights therein way. named shall carry or show the lights prescribed for vessels of their tonnage under way. _ _ _ (a) essels and oats, when fishing with drift nets, shall exhibit m}Q*m¤¤ ****1 dm _ two white lights from any part of the vessel where they can best be ` seen. Such lights shall e placed so that the vertical distance between them 518]] be not less than six feet and not more than texi feet, and so that the horizontal distance between them, measured in a line with the keel, shall be not less than five feet and not more than ten feet. The lower of these two lights shall be the more forward and both of them shall be of such a character as to show all around thq horizon, and to be visible at a distance of not less than three mi es. (b) Vessels, when engaged in trawling, by which is meant the T'“"“”¤- dragging of an apparatus along the bottom of the sea- First. If steam-vessels, sha carry in the same position as the if ¤¤¤¤¤¤·*¤¤l¤ white light mentioned in article two (a) a t1'lC0l0I‘0d antern so constructed and fixed as to show a white light from right ahead to two oints on each bow, and a green light and a red light over an arc of the horizon from two points on either bow to two points abaft the beam on the starboar and port sides, respectively; and, not less than six nor more than twelve feet below the tricolored lantern, a white light in a lantern, so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light all around the horizon Second. If saihng vessels, of seven tons gross tonnage and up- namsgvmem, uvwards, shall carry a white light in a lantern, so constructed as to °‘"°""“" “"'“°" show a clear, uniform, and un roken hght all around the horizon,