placed northeast and southwest. Light-draft vessels shall take the inner berths. No launch, casco, or other craft shall be allowed to make fast to channel buoys in the bay.

PAR. IX. Vessels loaded with petroleum, other inflammable liquids, or explosive compounds shall not be allowed to lie inside the breakwater, unless otherwise ordered by the port authorities.

PAR. X. When vessels are boarded by the harbor master or his representative, masters thereof shall, upon demand, exhibit the ship's roll or register, crew list, passenger list, or any other public ship's paper.

PAR. XI. Masters of vessels are requested to furnish all shipping news of general interest and such sanitary and hydrographic information as they may have. Masters wishing to have barometers tested can do so by giving glass reading to the harbor master, who will compare same with Observatory instruments and return correction to ship. The harbor master will also, when requested, supply masters with latest pilot charts, notices to mariners, and such local meteorological data as may be of use in these waters, for which no charge will be made.

PAR. XII. When any new officer or officers are to be appointed to serve on board of a United States merchant vessel while such vessel is in port, the Collector of Customs shall be notified, in order to insure the fact that such officer or officers hold the proper licenses.

PAR. XIII. In case a pilot is required by any vessel at any time, a regularly licensed pilot will be furnished at the pilot's station, and no other person shall be permitted to act in that capacity.

PAR. XIV. Masters of vessels wishing to load or discharge ballast shall first obtain permission to do so from the harbor master; and in case of unloading, they shall receive and obey their instructions from the harbor master as to where the ballast is to be dumped.

PAR. XV. There shall not be thrown, discharged, or deposited, or caused, suffered, or procured to be thrown, deposited, or discharged, either from or out of any ship, barge, or any floating craft of any kind, or from the shore, or wharf, any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever which may impede or obstruct navigation, other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any of the navigable waters of Manila Harbor or Pasig River as defined in Paragraph I of these Regulations; nor shall there be deposited or caused, suffered, or procured to be deposited, material of any kind in any place on the bank of said navigable waters or on the bank of any tributary of said navigable waters where the same may be liable to be washed into such waters, either by ordinary or high tides or by storms or floods or otherwise, whereby navigation shall or may be impeded or obstructed.

PAR. XVI. All vessels at anchor shall show the prescribed anchor lights from sunset to sunrise.

PAR. XVII. All vessels under way at night shall show the prescribed

PAR. XVIII. Outgoing vessels shall, at least two hours before departure, fly the usual code signal.

PAR. XIX. Whenever a vessel, raft, or other craft is wrecked and sunk in navigable channels, accidentally or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the owner of said craft to immediately mark it with a buoy or beacon during the day and a red lantern at night and to maintain such marks until the removal of the sunken craft. In such case, it shall also be the duty of the owner of such sunken craft to commence the immediate removal of the same and diligently to prosecute the said removal.

PAR. XX. Whenever the navigation of Manila Harbor shall be obstructed or endangered by any sunken vessel, boat, water craft, raft, or other similar obstructions, and such obstruction has existed for a longer period than thirty days, or whenever the abandonment can be established in a less space of time, the sunken vessel, boat, water craft, raft, or the obstruction may be broken up, removed, sold, or otherwise disposed of by the harbor master, at his discretion, with the approval of the Insular Collector of Customs, and any net proceeds arising therefrom shall be deposited with the Insular Treasurer.

INTERNATIONAL RULES TO PREVENT COLLISIONS

AT SEA.

PRELIMINARY DEFINITIONS.

In the following rules every steam vessel which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing vessel, and every vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a steam vessel.

The words "steam vessel" shall include any vessel propelled by machinery.

A vessel is "under way," within the meaning of these rules, when she is not at anchor, or made fast to the shore, or aground.

II. LIGHTS, AND SO FORTH.

The word "visible" in these rules when applied to lights shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere.

ARTICLE 1. The rules concerning lights shall be complied with in all weathers from sunset to sunrise, and during such time no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited.

STEAM VESSELS-MASTHEAD LIGHT.

ART. 2. A steam vessel when under way shall carry: (a) On or in front of the foremast, or if a vessel without a foremast, then in the fore part of the vessel, at a height above the hull of not less than twenty feet, and if the breadth of the vessel exceeds twenty feet, then at a height above the hull not less than such breadth, so, however, that the light need not be carried at a greater height above the hull than forty feet, a bright white light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles.

STEAM VESSELS-SIDE LIGHTS.

(b) On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam

on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distanc of at least two miles.

(c) On the port side a red light so constructed as to show an unbroke light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as t throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on th port side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at leas two miles.

(d) The said green and red side lights shall be fitted with inboar screen projecting at least three feet forward from the light, so as i prevent these lights from being seen across the bow.

STEAM VESSELS-RANGE LIGHTS.

(e) A steam vessel when under way may carry an additional whi light similar in construction to the light mentioned in subdivision (a These two lights shall be so placed in line with the keel that one shall at least fifteen feet higher than the other, and in such a position wit reference to each other that the lower light shall be forward of the upp one. The vertical distance between these lights shall be less than t horizontal distance.

STEAM VESSELS WHEN TOWING.

ART. 3. A steam vessel when towing another vessel shall, in additio to her side lights, carry two bright white lights in a vertical line o over the other, not less than six feet apart, and when towing more the one vessel shall carry an additional bright white light six feet above below such light, if the length of the tow measuring from the stern the towing vessel to the stern of the last vessel towed exceed six hundr feet. Each of these lights shall be of the same construction and cha acter, and shall be carried in the same position as the white light me tioned in article two (a), excepting the additional light, which may carried at a height of not less than fourteen feet above the hull.

Such steam vessel may carry a small white light abaft the funnel aftermast for the vessel towed to steer by, but such light shall not visible forward of the beam.

SPECIAL LIGHTS.

ART. 4. (a) A vessel which from any accident is not under comma shall carry at the same height as a white light mentioned in article t (a), where they can best be seen, and if a steam vessel, in lieu of th light, two red lights, in a vertical line one over the other, not less th six feet apart, and of such a character as to be visible all around t horizon at a distance of at least two miles; and shall by day carry in vertical line one over the other, not less than six feet apart, where th