demanded it, unless inaccuracy or false statement is proved, in which case it will be at the charge of the lighter. 110. If it is proved that a larceny has been committed upon the cargo placed on board of any vessel employed as a lighter, the captain or master is subjected to the fine prescribed by Article 133 of the present Regulation, without prejudice to the criminal proceedings appertaining to the competent authorities. In addition to this penalty, in the case of a licensed lighter, the licence is withdrawn for three months at least. PART VI.-On Towage. Chapter I.-General Provisions. 111. No one can undertake habitual towage business at the Sulina Mouth, or on the Lower Danube below Isaktcha, before registering at the office of the Captain of the Port the vessels intended to act as tugs, and being furnished with a licence from the Captain of the Port for each vessel. (Art. 141.) 112. The licence prescribed by the preceding Article must always be kept on board. It indicates the tonnage of the tug, as well as the quality and power of her engines. 113. Tugs provided with the licence prescribed by the two preceding Articles must have the number of their licence painted outside, in white, in Arabic figures 1 foot in height, both on the port and starboard side, where it can be easily seen. (Art. 142.) about to moor or 114. When vessels or transports in tow are cast anchor in the Sulina Roads, in a port, or in any part of the Danube below Isaktcha, the tug-steamers may not cast off the towrope until the vessels they are towing have come up to the wind or current, and are in a fit position for anchoring. (Art. 141.) 115. When the captain of a tug-steamer undertakes, either in the Roads of Sulina or in the river below Isaktcha, the towage of one or more vessels, rafts, or floats of timber for which the power of his engines is insufficient, he is civilly responsible for all the damage which may result from it. 116. The provisions of Articles 114 and 115 preceding are binding on all vessels employed as tug-steamers, whether habitually or occasionally, in the river below Isaktcha or in the Roads of Sulina. Chapter II.-On Towage at the River Mouth. 117. Tug-steamers employed, either habitually or occasionally, in the service of the Port and Roadstead of Sulina, are bound to obey strictly the directions given them by the Captain of the Port, or by his agents, in all that concerns the berths for anchorage or mooring of the vessels they tow into port. They themselves occupy berths in the section of the port which is specially assigned to them by the Port Captain, and they may not be moored more than two abreast. (Art. 142.) 118. It is forbidden to all steamers to navigate in the Sulina Port, with more than two vessels lashed abreast. (Art. 142.) 119. When the state of the sea does not permit the bar pilots to go out in the roads to pilot vessels wishing to enter, every tugsteamer leaving the port to bring in a vessel in tow is bound, before starting, to take on board a pilot told off by the chief pilot for this purpose. (Art. 142.) Chapter III.-On Towage in the River. 120. Every tug-steamer which shall have made more than three towage operations in the course of a month, in the river between Isaktcha and the Sulina Mouth, shall be considered as carrying on habitually the towage business in that part of the river, and must, in consequence, take out the licence prescribed by Article 111 of the present Regulation. 121. In the event of grounding or wreck of a vessel, transport, raft, or float of timber, when in tow below Isaktcha, the captain of the tug-steamer, continuing his voyage, must give notice of the accident to the first guard-boat of the Inspector-General's service that he meets. If the accident is owing to the fault of the tug-steamer, this latter may not continue its voyage until it has been ascertained that the power of its engines is insufficient to set afloat again the vessel, transport, raft, or float of timber so grounded. (Art. 141.) The provisions of this present Article apply to all steamers employed as tugs in the river below Isaktcha, whether habitually or occasionally. PART VII.-Special Provisions to be observed in the Interest of the Works of Improvement on the Lower Danube. 122. The precautionary rules prescribed by Article 30 of the present Regulation to the captains or masters of the vessels, floats of timber, or rafts, navigating or stationary on the Lower Danube, below Isaktcha, apply specially to the floating plant employed on the works of improvement of the river and of its mouths, as well as to the works of every kind, such as piers, jetties, groynes, quays, constructed or to be constructed by the European Commission, or by the authority which shall succeed it, and to the buoys and other signals placed by one or other of these authorities on the river or on its banks. (Arts. 144 and 145.) 123. The captains or masters of vessels, floats of timber, or rafts are equally bound to take the precautions necessary for im peding as little as possible the works in course of execution, especially the dredging operations, and the construction of the works undertaken or to be undertaken in the Lower Danube below Isaktcha and at the river mouth. To this end the captains of all steam-vessels are bound to slacken their speed as much as they can do so without danger to their own vessels, or to the vessels towed by them, when they are traversing a section of the river on which dredging or other works are in course of execution, and that as long as they are between the signal posts placed on the banks above and below the site of the works. (Arts. 144 and 145.) 124. When the steam-dredgers are employed in the Sulina Branch, or at the Tchatal of St. George during the night, the passage of the channel, where the dredging operations and discharge of stuff dredged are being carried on, is forbidden, except in the case hereinafter mentioned, to all sailing and steam-vessels, rafts, or floats of timber for so many hours as is judged necessary, and which is determined by a special notice to this effect published by the European Commission, or by the authority which shall succeed it. This prohibition does not extend to packet-boats making periodical voyages and engaged in the Mail Service; except, however, in the case of special necessity, when passage by night can be forbidden absolutely, by a simple notice from the Commission, or the authority succeeding it. (Arts. 144 and 145.) PART VIII.-On Offences. Chapter I-Assessment of Fines. § 1. Offences against the General Provisions and those of Part I for the Police of the Roads and Port of Sulina. 125. Every offence against the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 5, of the first paragraph of Article 17, of the first paragraph of Article 23, or against any of the provisions of Articles 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 27, and 28 of the present Regulation, is punished with a fine of 10 fr. at least, and of 50 fr. at most. 126. The captain of every sea-going vessel, except the steamers engaged on postal service, found in the Danube, and whose musterroll does not bear the stamp of which mention is made in Article 17 of the present Regulation, or shall only bear one or more annulled stamps, is liable to a fine of 100 fr. at least, and of 500 fr. at most. This fine will be of 20 fr. at least, and of 200 fr. at most, for any captain of a sea-going vessel who, during the passage between Isaktcha and Sulina, is not provided with a muster-roll, or who refuses to produce it on the demand of the Inspector-General's agents. 127. Every offence against Article 21 of the present Regulation is punished with a fine of 100 fr. at least, and of 300 fr. at most. Offences against the provisions of Article 22 are punished with a fine of 20 fr. at least, and of 200 fr. at most. 128. Every offence against any one of the provisions of Articles 24 and 25 is punished with a fine of 20 fr. at least, and of 100 fr. at most. § 2. Offences against the Provisions of Part II, on the River Police. 129. Every offence against either of the provisions of Articles 30 to 45 inclusive, of Articles 48 to 59 inclusive, 64, 65, 69, and 74 of the present Regulation, is punished with a fine of 30 fr. at least, and 100 fr. at most. The maximum of the fine can be carried to 2,000 fr. in the case when the offence against the provisions of Article 30 is committed wilfully and with bad intention, it being of a nature to endanger the security of vessels or of the scales, buoys, signals, towing-paths, or other establishments instituted for the navigation. (Art. 145.) 130. Every conductor of a raft or float of timber found navigating the Sulina Branch with a draught of water greater than that prescribed by Article 60 of the present Regulation is liable to a fine of 100 fr. at least, and 500 fr. at most. Every offence against either of the provisions of Articles 61 and 62 is punished with a fine of 200 fr. at least, and of 500 fr. at most. (Art. 145.) 131. Every offence against either of the provisions of Article 73, relative to the discharge or throwing overboard of ballast, is punished with a fine of 100 fr. at least, and of 50 fr. at most. §3. Offences against the Provisions of Part III, on the Police of the Port of Toultcha. 132. Offences against the provisions of Articles 75, 76, and 77 of the present Regulation are punished with a fine of 10 fr. at least, and of 50 fr. at most. § 4. Offences against the Provisions of Part IV, on the Pilot Service. 133. Every offence against the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 13, or of the second paragraph of Article 85, is punished by a fine of 150 fr. at least, and of 300 fr. at most. 134. Every refusal of the declarations prescribed by Article 80, or wilful inaccuracy in these declarations, either on the part of the captains or on the part of the pilots, and every offence against Article 81, are punished with a fine of 50 fr. at least, and of 100 fr. at most. 135. Every captain who, contrary to the provisions of the fifth paragraph of Article 84, shall cause his vessel to be piloted between Sulina and Ibraila, even when ascending the river, and when he himself is on board, by a pilot who does not belong to the Corps of River Pilots, is liable to a fine of 100 fr. at least, and of 150 fr. at most. Any river pilot offending against the provisions of Article 88 is liable to a fine of 50 fr. at least, and of 100 fr. at most. 136. Every offence committed by the licensed pilots of the Mouth, or of the river, or by the chief or deputy chief pilots against the provisions of the present Regulations, or the instructions which are given to them, and to which no special penalty is attached, is punishable by a fine, of which the maximum cannot exceed 300 fr. § 5. Offences against the Provisions of Part V, on the Lighter Service. 137. Every offence against the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 94, or against either of the provisions of Articles 95, 101, and 104, is punished with a fine of 100 fr. at least, and of 200 fr. at most. 138. Every offence against the rules laid down in the third paragraph of Article 94, as also every offence against either of the provisions of Article 97, of the first paragraph of Article 99, of Articles 100, 102, 103, and of the first paragraph of Article 105, is punished with a fine of 20 fr. at least, and of 120 fr. at most. 139. Every offence against the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article 94, of the second paragraph of Article 99, and of the second paragraph of Article 105, is punished with a fine of 400 fr. at least, and of 1,200 fr. at most; and the same penalty is applicable to the captain or owner of every vessel having acted as lighter, or of every licensed lighter, which, without having been thereto compelled by circumstances beyond control, quits on the Roadstead of Sulina the lightened vessel, before having restored to her the whole of her cargo. 140. In every instance the vessel or lighter on board of which an offence is committed remains especially set apart for the payment of the fine incurred, for the recovering of which she can be sequestered by the Inspector-General of the Navigation, or by the Captain of the Port of Sulina, according to circumstances. (Art. 143.) § 6. Offences against the Provisions of Part VI, on Towage. 141. Every offence against the provisions of Articles 111, 114, |