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 592 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Cns. 588, 600. 1928 . May 16, 1928. CHAP. 588 .-Joint Resolution Making an emergency appropriation for flood [S. J. Res. 135.] protection on White River Arkansas. [Pub. Res., No.44.] ' White River, Ark Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United . Appropriation for States o f America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appro- fl ood p rote ction on. priated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be required, to be expended under the direction of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and the Mississippi River Commission to strengthen and hold levees on the White River in Woodruff and Monroe Coun- ties, Arkansas. Expenditure by SEC. 2. The Chief of Engineers of the United St ates Army or the Chief of Engineers or Mi ssiss ippi Rive r Co rn- Mississippi River Commission, or both, are hereby authorized to mission. expend said sum, or so much thereof as may be required, to strengthen or hold said levees. Approved, May 16, 1928. May 17, 1928 . [H. R. 13037 .] CHAP. 600 .-An Act To amend section 1, rule 2, rule 3, subd ivision ( e), [Public, No. 407 .] and rule 9 of an Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes, and their con- necting and tributary waters, enacted February 8, 1895 (chapter 64, Twenty- eighth Statutes at Large, section 645). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the Rul es R pre, e United States of America in Congress assembled, That rule 2, rule 3, Rul es to prevent col- lis ions °n. subdivision (e), and rule 9 of section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters," enacted February 8, 1895, and being chapter 64, Lights required Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, section 645, be, and the same are, . Vol . 28,p.645,amend- respectively, The amended so as to read as follows : ed. " Rule 2 . The lights mentioned in the following rules, and no others which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights, shall be exhibited in all wea thers from su nset to sunris e . The word `visible' in these rules, when applied to lights, shall mean visible on a dark night with on steam vessels. a clear atmosphere . Additional, for large " Rule 3, sub divi sion (e). A steamer of over one hundred and vessels . s,p .646,amend- fifty feet register length shall carry also, when under way, a bright ed. white light so fixed as to throw the light all around the horizon, and of such character as to be visible at a distance of at least three miles. Such light shall be placed in line with the keel at least fifteen feet Substitute lights• higher from the deck and more than seventy-five feet abaft the light mentioned in subdivision (e); or in lieu thereof two such lights of the same character and height as her ein described placed not ov er thirty inches apart horizontally, one on either side of the keel, and so arranged that one or the other or both shall be visible from any vessels at anchor. angle of approach. "Rule 9. A vessel under one hundred and fifty feet register length, when at anchor, shall carry forward, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, a white light constructed so as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible Large vessel s . all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile . Positions modified . "A vessel of one hundred and fifty feet or upward in register edvo l .25 ,p .647 ,amend . length, when at anchor, shall carry in the forward part of the vessel two white lights at the same height of not less than twenty and not exceeding forty feet above the hull and not less than ten feet apart horizontally and athwartships, except that each need not be visible all around the horizon but so arranged that one or the other, or both, shall show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light and be visible from any angle of approach at a distance of at least one mile; and at or near the stern of the vessel two similar lights, similarly arranged and

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