from sunset to sunrise. Such light to be distinctly visible on all sides.

62.-Who, when navigating any vessel upon the said river, shall not comply with the rules concerning lights, fog signals, steering and sailing, as specified in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1862.1

63. The expression "trustees" means the mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of York; "the navigation" means the part of the River Ouse within the jurisdiction of the said mayor, aldermen and citizens. The word "vessel" shall mean any ship, lighter, keel, barge, wherry, boat, raft, or craft, or any kind of vessel whatever, whether navigated by steam or otherwise. The expressions "steam vessel" and "steamer" shall mean any vessel propelled by steam.

Bye-laws under the Explosives Act, 1875.

9. No ship or boat carrying any gunpowder or other explosive shall enter or remain on the navigation without a red flag or metal vane, painted red, two feet square at the least, shown in a conspicuous place above the deck; and there shall also be kept burning in a conspicuous place on every such ship or boat, between sunset and sunrise, a lamp showing continuously, ahead and astern, a red light, capable of being distinctly seen on on a clear night at a distance of 200 yards.

11.-No ship or boat carrying any gunpowder or other explosive shall be towed or propelled otherwise than by animals or men. Nor shall any such ship or boat, except

1 On the wording of this Bye-law it would seem that the Collision Regulations set out in the Schedule to the Act of 1862 are referred to. But on the date the Bye-law was approved by the Board of Trade the Regulations scheduled to the Act of 1862 were repealed and the Collision Regulations, 1884, were in force for vessels navigating the high seas. The Bye-law may therefore be considered to refer to the Collision Regulations, 1884, which were in force under the Act at the date the Bye-law was passed.

for the purpose of passing, approach nearer to any other ship or boat carrying gunpowder or other explosive than 200 yards.

12.-Every ship or boat shall, so long as there is any gunpowder or other explosive on board, proceed with all convenient speed and without any avoidable delay to her destination.

PEMBROKE.

The following Regulations to be observed within the Dockyard Port of Pembroke were made by Order in Council, dated 26th September, 1891, by virtue of the Dockyard Ports Regulation Act, 1865.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits of the Dockyard Port of Pembroke.

1.-On the west, a straight line drawn from the extremity of Thorn Point through Stack Rock to Southhook Point; on the east, a straight line drawn from Pembroke Ferry Point to the western extreme of Barnlake Point; and including all the bays, creeks, lakes, pools, and rivers, between the above limits, as far as the tide flows.

General.

2.-If at any time the anchor of any merchant or other private vessel hooks any Government moorings, or any electric cables, or moorings of buoys, the master or other person having the charge or command of such vessel shall not proceed to unhook the same, but shall forthwith give notice thereof to the naval superintendent or Queen's harbour master, in order that aid may be given for clearing such moorings or cables without doing damage to the

same.

3.—No merchant nor other private vessel or boat shall, without licence in writing from the naval superintendent, or Queen's harbour master, be moored or fastened to any of the forts, nor to any Government moorings, buoys, piles, or vessels in the dockyard port.

4.-No merchant nor other private vessel of above five tons, compelled or allowed to anchor in or near any of the navigable channels of the dockyard port, shall be left at any time without a shipkeeper.

5.-No fishing from boats shall be carried on within 100 feet of Her Majesty's dockyards or other Government establishments.

Protection of Mine-fields and Electric Cables.

8. Whenever it may be necessary for mining experiments, or other similar naval or military purpose, to reserve any area for such experiments or purpose, the area will be marked by buoys coloured green and white, and, after twenty-one days' warning has been conveyed to mariners by notice issued by the Admiralty and published in the London Gazette, no vessel shall anchor within or pass through the area so marked, unless compelled to do so by stress of weather or to avoid accident.

9. No vessel shall anchor on the line of any electric cable laid down in the dockyard port, when such line is indicated by white-washed posts, or other discernible marks erected on shore, and twenty-one days' warning has been conveyed to mariners by notice issued by the Admiralty and published in the London Gazette.

Anchorage Regulations.

10. No merchant or other private vessel shall be moored or anchored within the following limits, namely:

Between a straight line drawn from the north-west

angle of Pater Battery in a N. 53° W. (true) direction to the opposite shore, and a similar line

drawn from the eastern extreme of the dockyard in a north (true) direction

unless she is forced thereto by unavoidable accident, or unless she is consigned to the dockyard.

11.-No vessel shall anchor in the fairway of Milford Haven nor in the fairway into, or in, the dockyard port in such a position as to obstruct the entrance of Her Majesty's ships, unless compelled thereto by stress of weather or unavoidable accident.

Penalties.

14. The master of every merchant or other private vessel to which this order relates shall observe and cause to be observed the provisions of this order as far as it relates to his vessel, and if any master or other person acts in any respect in contravention of any of the provisions of this order, or fails to observe or cause to be observed in any respect any of those provisions, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

Local Authorities.

15.-Nothing in this order shall affect the authority of the Milford Docks Company and the Queen's harbour master under the Milford Docks Act, 1874, and other Acts of Parliament applicable to that company; nor the authority of the harbour master of the Great Western Railway Company at New Milford under the South Wales Railways Consolidation Act, 1855, or other Acts of Parliament relating to that company.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Rules concerning lights and signals to be used, and the steps to be taken for avoiding collisions in the Dockyard Port of Pembroke, and the approaches thereto.

Limits of dockyard port of Pembroke defined in identical words to Regulation 1 of the First Schedule, ante, p. 222.

Observance of" Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea." 2.-All sea-going vessels, when within the limits of the Dockyard Port of Pembroke, shall carry such lights as are prescribed by the "Regulations for preventing Collisions. at Sea"; as set out in the schedule annexed to an Order in Council made in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and dated the 11th August, 1884, or other Order in Council for the time being in force relating thereto1; and all vessels of every description shall also observe the steering and sailing rules set forth in the above-mentioned schedule, except in so far as they are affected by the regulations hereinafter contained.

Lights for Vessels at Anchor.

3.-Vessels of 150 feet or upwards in length at anchor within the limits of the port, shall carry, in addition to the anchor light prescribed by the "Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea," a bright light at the stern not less than 15 feet lower than the forward light.

Lights for small Steam Craft.

4. Steam launches and other small craft propelled by steam, of a length over all of, or exceeding, thirty-five feet shall, between sunset and sunrise, when within the limits of the dockyard port of Pembroke, carry the lights prescribed for sea-going steamships in the above-mentioned schedule; or shall, when under way, in lieu of the coloured side lights, carry a single lantern amidships, with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other side; such lantern to be not less than two feet above the hull, and so constructed and placed, that the green light shall show from right ahead to two points abaft the starboard beam; and the red light, from right ahead to two points abaft the port beam;—without being obscured by other objects in the vessel. The bright light is to be in the middle line of the

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Now the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1897.