Inland rules. overtaking, are never to be used except when steamers are in sight of each other, and the course and position of each can be determined in the daytime by a sight of the vessel itself, or by night by seeing its signal lights. In fog, mist, falling snow or heavy rainstorms, when vessels can not see each other, fog-signals only must be given. Sec. 2. SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS. The supervising inspectors of steam-vessels and the Supervising Inspector-General shall establish such rules to be observed by steam-vessels in passing each other and as to the lights to be carried by ferry-boats and by barges and canal-boats when in tow of steam-vessels, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as they from time to time may deem necessary for safety, which rules when approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, are Feb. 14, 1903. hereby declared special rules duly made by local authority, as provided for in article thirty of chapter eight hundred and two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety. Two printed copies of such rules shall be furnished to such ferry-boats and steam-vessels, which rules shall be kept posted up in conspicuous places in such vessels. Sec. 10. TWO STEAM-VESSELS CROSSING. ART. 19. When two steam vessels are crossing, so as to June 7, 1897. involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way of the other. STEAM-VESSEL SHALL KEEP OUT OF THE WAY OF SAILING- ART. 20. When a steam-vessel and sailing-vessel are proceeding in such directions as to involve risk of collision, the steam-vessel shall keep out of the way of the sailing-vessel. COURSE AND SPEED. ART. 21. Where, by any of these rules, one of the two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed. [See articles 27 and 29.] CROSSING AHEAD. ART. 22. Every vessel which is directed by these rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other. STEAM-VESSELS SHALL SLACKEN SPEED OR STOP. ART. 23. Every steam-vessel which is directed by these rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, on approaching her, if necessary, slacken her speed or stop or reverse. OVERTAKING VESSELS. ART. 24. Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules every vessel, overtaking any other, shall keep out of the way of the overtaken vessel. Every vessel coming up with another vessel from any direction more than two points abaft her beam, that is, in such a position, with reference to the vessel which she is overtaking that at night she would be unable to see either of that vessel's side-lights, shall be deemed to be an overtaking vessel; and no subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear. As by day the overtaking vessel can not always know with certainty whether she is forward of or abaft this direction from the other vessel she should, if in doubt, assume that she is an overtaking vessel and keep out of the way. NARROW CHANNELS. ART. 25. In narrow channels every steam-vessel shall, when it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fair-way or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such vessel. RIGHTS OF WAY OF FISHING VESSELS. ART. 26. Sailing-vessels under way shall keep out of the way of sailing-vessels or boats fishing with nets, or lines or trawls. This rule shall not give to any vessel or boat engaged in fishing the right of obstructing a fairway used by vessels other than fishing-vessels or boats. GENERAL PRUDENTIAL RULE. -ART. 27. In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger. SOUND SIGNALS FOR PASSING STEAMERS. (See Art. 18.) ART. 28. When vessels are in sight of one another a steam-vessel under way whose engines are going at full speed astern shall indicate that fact by three short blasts on the whistle. Inland rules. Inland rules. Sec. 2. Feb. 14, 1903. PRECAUTION. ART. 29. Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case. LIGHTS ON UNITED STATES NAVAL VESSELS AND REVENUE ART. 30. The exhibition of any light on board of a vessel of war of the United States or a revenue cutter may be suspended whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, the commander in chief of a squadron, or the commander of a vessel acting singly, the special character of the service may require it. DISTRESS SIGNALS. ART. 31. When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, namely: IN THE DAYTIME. A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus, or firing a gun. AT NIGHT. First. Flames on the vessel as from a burning tar barrel, oil barrel, and so forth. Second. A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus, or firing a gun. 365. Limits of application of international and inland or local rules. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby auFeb. 19, 1895. thorized, empowered and directed from time to time to designate and define by suitable bearings or ranges with light houses, light vessels, buoys or coast objects, the lines dividing the high seas from rivers, harbors and inland waters. The words "inland waters" used in this Act shall not be held to include the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal: LINES ESTABLISHING HARBORS, RIVERS, AND INLAND WATERS OF (All bearings are in degrees true and points magnetic, and are given Cutler (Little River) Harbor, Me.: A line drawn from Long Pigeon Hill Bay, Me.: A line drawn from Little River Head 232° Inland rules. All harbors on the coast of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts between Petit Manan Lighthouse, Me., and Cape Ann Lighthouses, Mass.: A line drawn from Petit Manan Lighthouse 2051° (SW. S.), 261 miles, to Mount Desert Lighthouse; thence 250 (W.S.), about 33 miles, to Matinicus Rock Lighthouses; thence 2671 (WNW. } W.), 23 miles, to Monhegan Island Lighthouse; thence 260° (W. N.), 19 miles to Seguin Lighthouse; thence 233° (WSW.), 18 miles, to Cape Elizabeth Lightvessel, No. 74; thence 2143° (SW. W.), 29 miles, to Boon Island Lighthouse; thence 210° (SW.), 11 miles, to Anderson Ledge Spindle, off Isles of Shoals Lighthouse; thence 1761° (S. } W.), 19 miles, to Cape Ann Lighthouses, Mass. Boston Harbor: From Eastern Point Lighthouse 215° (SW. All harbors in Cape Cod Bay, Mass.: A line drawn from Ply. mouth (Gurnet) Lighthouses 77° (E. S.), 16 miles, to Race Point Lighthouse. Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound, and easterly entrance to Long Island Sound: A line drawn from Chatham Lighthouses, Mass., 146° (S. by E. Į E.), 4 miles, to Pollock Rip Shoals Lightvessel, No. 73; thence 142° (SSE. † E.), 12 miles, to Great Round Shoal Entrance Gas, whistling, and Submarine Bell Buoy (PS); thence 229° (SW. by W. W.), 14 miles, to Sankaty Head Lighthouse; from Smith Point, Nantucket Island, 265° (W. § N.), 25 miles, to southeasterly point No Mans Land; from westerly point No Mans Land 359° (N. by E.), 51 miles to Gay Head Lighthouse; thence 250° (W.S.), 34 miles, to Block Island Southeast Lighthouse; thence 250° (W. S.), 14 miles, to Montauk Point Lighthouse, on the easterly end of Long Island, N. Y. New York Harbor: A line drawn from Rockaway Point LifeSaving Station 1671° (S. E.), 6 miles, to Ambrose Channel Lightvessel, No. 87; thence 238° (WSW.), 8 miles, to Navesink (southerly) Lighthouse. Philadelphia Harbor and Delaware Bay: A line drawn from Cape May Lighthouse 200° (SSW. W.), 8 miles, to Overfalls Lightvessel, No. 69; thence 2461° (WSW. W.), 3 miles, to Cape Henlopen Lighthouse. Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay: A line drawn from Charleston Harbor: A line drawn from Ferris Wheel, on Isle. Savannah Harbor and Calibogue Sound: A line drawn from Braddock Point, Hilton Head Island, 149° (SSE. E.), 9 miles, to Tybee Gas and Whistling Buoy, T (PS); thence 270° (W.) to the beach of Tybee Island. St. Simon Sound (Brunswick Harbor) and St. Andrew Sound: From hotel on beach of St. Simon Island 1 mile 60° (NE. by E E.) from St. Simon Lighthouse, 130° (SE. } E.), 6 miles, to miles, to S.), 4# Inland rules. St. Simon Whistling Buoy; thence 192° (S. by W.), 8 St. Andrew Sound Bar Buoy (PS); thence 270° (W. miles, to the shore of Little Cumberland Island. St. Johns River, Fla.: A straight line from the outer end of the northerly jetty to the outer end of the southerly jetty. Florida Reefs and Keys: A line drawn from the easterly end of the northerly jetty, at the entrance to the dredged channel mile northerly of Norris Cut, 1141° (ESE.), 13 miles, to Florida Reefs North End Beacon, W.; thence 1781° (S. † E.), 73 miles, to Biscayne Bay Sea Bell Buoy, 1; thence 181° (S.), 23 miles, to Fowey Rocks Lighthouse; thence 188° (S. W.), 6 miles, to Triumph Reef Beacon, O; thence 193° (S. by W.), 44 miles, to Ajax Reef Beacon, M; thence 1944° (S. by W. W.), 2 miles, to Pacific Reef Beacon, L; thence 1964° (S. by W. W.), 5 miles, to Turtle Harbor Sea Buoy, 2; thence 210° (SSW. W.), 43 miles, to Carysfort Reef Lighthouse; thence 2091° (SSW. W.), 51 miles, to Elbow Reef Beacon, J; thence 218° (SW. S.), 71 miles, to French Reef Beacon, G; thence 2201 (SW. † S.), 2 miles, to Molasses Reef Beacon, T; thence 2341° (SW. § W.), 6 miles, to Conch Reef Beacon, E; thence 235° (SW. ‡ W.) through Crocker Reef Beacon, D, 10 miles, to Alligator Reef Lighthouse; thence 238° (SW. by W.), 9 miles, to Tennessee Reef Beacon, 7; thence 2221 (SW. S.), 2 miles, to Tennessee Reef Buoy, 4; thence 251° (WSW. W.), 10 miles, to Coffins Patches Beacon, C; thence 247° (SW. by W. W.), 8 miles, to Sombrero Key Lighthouse; thence 250° (WSW.), 2 miles, to Sombrero Key Turn Buoy (PS); thence 253° (WSW. W.). 61 miles, to Bahia Honda Sea Buoy (PS); thence 2551° (WSW. W.), 7 miles, to Looe Key Beacon, 6; thence 257° (WSW. W.), 6 miles, to American Shoal Lighthouse; thence 2531° (WSW. W.), 21 miles, to Maryland Shoal Beacon, S; thence 259° (WSW. { W.), 5 miles, to Eastern Sambo Beacon, A; thence 2561° (WSW. W.), 2 miles, to Western Sambo Beacon, R; thence 2521° (WSW. W.), 18 miles, to Western Sambo Buoy, 2; thence 2611° (W. by S.), through Ship Channel Shoal Beacon, 5, 3 miles, to Main Ship Channel Entrance Bar Buoy (PS); thence 2591° (WSW. W.), 2 miles, to Eastern Dry Rocks Beacon, 4; thence 2561 (WSW. W.), 13 miles, to Sand Key Lighthouse; thence 261 (W. by S.), 2 miles, to Western Dry Rocks Beacon, 2; thence 2681 (W. S.), 3 miles, through Satan Shoal Buoy (HS) to Vestal Shoal Buoy, 1; thence 273° (W. N.), 51 miles, to Coal Bin Rock Buoy (HS); thence 324}° (NW. § N.), 7 miles, to Conch Key; from northwesterly point Marquesas Keys 611° (NE. by E. † E.), 4 miles, to North Entrance Buoy (PS), Boca Grande Channel; thence 84° (E. N.), 9 miles, to Northwest Channel Entrance Bell Buoy (PS), Northwest Channel into Key West; thence 681° (NE. by E. E.), 23 miles, to northerly side of Content Keys; thence 48° (NE. E.), 291 miles, to East Cape, Cape Sable. Charlotte Harbor and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Eastward of Entrance Bell Buoy (PS), off Boca Grande, and in Charlotte Harbor, in Pine Island Sound and Matlacha Pass. Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in Peace and Myacca Rivers north of a 250° and 70° (WSW. and ENE.) line through Mangrove Point Light; and in Caloosahatchee River northward of the steamboat wharf at Puntarasa. Tampa Bay and tributaries, Fla.: From the southerly end of Long Key 2451° (SW. by W. W.), 3 miles, to Entrance Gas and Whistling Buoy (PS); thence 128° (SE. ↑ E.), 6 miles, to Bar Bell Buoy (PS) at the entrance to Southwest Channel; thence 102° (E.S.), 24 miles, to the house on the north end of Anna Maria Key. Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in Manatee River inside Entrance Buoy (PS); in Hillsboro River inside Barrel Stake Beacon. St. George Sound, Apalachicola Bay, Carrabelle and Apalachicola Rivers, and St. Vincent Sound, Fla.: North of a line from |