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 892 PROCLAMATIONS. N0. 1s Rezulqtivns tv pre- and contained in lanterns of such construction as to be visible all round the horizon, E$:E‘;’ul1;3l°“““”“* on a dark night, with a. clear atmosphere, the white light to a distance of not less than three miles and the red light of not less than two miles. (d) A vessel employed in line-iishing, with her lines out, shall carry the same lights as s. vessel when engaged in iishing with drift-nets. (e) If avessel, when fishiniwith a trawl, dredge, or any kind of drag-net, becomes stationary in consequence of er gear getting fast to a. rock or other obstruction, she shall show the light and make the tbg-signal for a vessel at anchor. (f) Fishing-vessels and open boats may at any time use s Hare-up in addition to the lights w ich they are by this article required to carry and show. All flare~up lights exhibited by A vesse when trawling, dredgine, or fishing with any kind of drag·net shall be s own at the after-part of the vesse, excepting that if the vessel 20 by the stern to her trawl, dredge, or drag·net they shall be exhibited m the ow. (g) Every iishing-vessel and every open boat when at anchor between sunset and nnjuise shall exhibit a white light, visible all round the horizon at a distance of at st one mi e. (h) In a fog n drift-net vessel attached to her nets, and a. vessel when trswling, dredging, or iishing with any kind of dra.g—net, and a vessel employed in line·iishing with her lines out, shall, at intervals of not more than two minutes, make a blast with her fog-horn and ring her bell altemately. v°L 2“·P·°“°· And whereas an act of Congress entitled “An Act To postpone the enforcement of the Act of August 19, 1890, entitled ‘An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea/" was approved February 23, 1895, the said act being in the following words: Whereas the President, in accordance with the proposition of Great Britain to enforce on March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the revised international regulations for preventing collisions at sea, and on the representations of that Government that those regulations had received the general approval of the several foreign maritime powers, pursuant to section three of the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "Au Act to Mopgaegulatiom for preventing collisions at sea," issued on July thirteenth, eighteen hun and ninety-four, his proclamation nxing March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as the time when the provisions of said Act, as amended, embodying sui revised international regulations shall take effect; and Whereas the Government of Great Britiau has withdrawn from the position, communicated to this Government on April twenty-filth, eighteen hundred and ninety- four, that no time should be lost in carrying those regulations into eifect, and on January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, announced to this Government that the Government of Great Britain now finds it impossible until Parliament has been consulted to tix a. date for bringing the regulations into tbrve, and earnestly requests this Government to consent to a temporary postponement of the entbrcenient of said regulations; and \Vhereas it is desirable that the revised international regulations for preventing collisions at sea shall be put into force simultaneously by the maritime powers: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That said Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred und ninety, take effect not on March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, but at a subsequent time, to be iixed by the President by proclamation issued for that purpose. V·>\·¤¤.i>·1¤¤¤· And whereas the President did, in virtue of the authority vested in him by the said act of February 23, 1895, issue a proclama.tion on the 25th day of February, 1895, giving notice that the said act of August 19, 1890, as amended by the act of May _28, 1894, would not go into force on March 1, 1895, the date fixed in his said proclamation of July 13, 1894, but on such future date as might be designated in a proclamw tion of the President to be issued for that ur se- _ _ P P0 1 .4»u,p.ss1. And whereas an act of Congress entitled “An Act To amend an Act a roved An ust 19 1890, entitled ‘Au Act to ado t re ulatious for PP _ g _ _ 1 P g _ preventing collisions at sea.,"’ was approved June 10, 1896, the said act being in the following words: Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representation q/' the United States of America in Congress assembled, That article fifteeu of the Act approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at ses," be amended to read as follows: E¢;5;¤w·h:gz¤¤l¤- "A1zr. 15. All signals prescribed by this article for vessels under way shall bo · P- - given: "First. By ‘steam vessels' on the whistle or siren. "Second. By ‘ sailing vessels’ and ‘vessels t0we<1’ on the fog horn. " The words ‘pmlonged blast’ used in this article shall mean a blast of from four to six seconds duration.