navigating any bay, harbour, or river, by hand-power, horse-power, sail, or by the current of the river, or which shall be anchored or moored in or near the channel or fairway of any bay, harbour, or river, shall carry one or more good white lights, which shall be placed in such manner as shall be prescribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors of steam vessels.

Resolution adopted by the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels on Feb. 16, 1891, as amended Feb. 8, 1899. That all coal boats, trading boats, produce boats, canal boats, oyster boats, fishing boats, and other water craft navigating any bay, harbour, or river, propelled by hand-power, horse-power, sail, or by the current of the river, or which shall be moored in or near the channel or fairway of any bay, harbour, or river, shall carry one bright white light forward, not less than 6 feet above the rail or deck.

Rafts of one crib and not more than two in length

shall carry one bright white light on a pole not less than 12 feet high; three or more cribs in length, shall carry one white light at each end of the raft at the same height. Boom rafts with cross binders towed ahead of steamers on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and other waters flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Red River of the North, shall carry a white light 4 feet high at the forward end of the raft, and one such light at each side midway between the forward and after end.

Rafts of more than one crib abreast shall carry one white light on each outside corner of the raft, making four lights in all. Bag or boom rafts navigating or anchored in the fairway of any bay, harbour, or river shall carry a white light at least 12 feet high at each end of the raft, and

one of such lights on each side midway between the forward and after end.

Row boats shall carry one white light 2 feet above the

stem.

Fog Signals.

(15) Whenever there is a fog or thick weather, whether by day or night, fog signals shall be used, as follows:

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(D) Coal boats, trading boats, produce boats, canal boats, oyster boats, fishing boats, rafts, or other water craft, navigating any bay, harbour, or river, by handpower, horse-power, sail, or by the current of the river, or anchored or moored in or near the channel or fairway of any bay, harbour, or river, and not in any port, shall sound a fog horn, or equivalent signal, which shall make a sound equal to a steam whistle, at intervals of not more than two minutes.

(21) Every steam vessel, when approaching another vessel, so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or, if necessary, stop and reverse; and every steam vessel shall, when in a fog, go at a moderate speed.

(22) Every vessel overtaking any other vessel shall keep out of the way of the last-mentioned vessel.

(23) Where, by Rules 17, 19, 20, and 22, one of two vessels shall keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course, subject to the qualifications of Rule 24.

(24) In construing and obeying these rules, due regard must be had to all dangers of navigation, and to any special circumstances which may exist in any particular case rendering a departure from them necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.

4412. The Board of Supervising Inspectors shall establish such regulations to be observed by all steam vessels in passing each other, as they shall from time to time deem. necessary for safety; two printed copies of such regulations, signed by them, shall be furnished to each of such

vessels, and shall at all times be kept posted up in conspicuous places in such vessels.

4413. Every pilot, engineer, mate, or master of any steam vessel who neglects or wilfully refuses to observe the regulations established in pursuance of the preceding section shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, and for all damages sustained by any passenger, in his person or baggage, by such neglect or refusal.

WARKWORTH HARBOUR.

Bye-laws made by the Commissioners of Warkworth Harbour on 15th June, 1870, by virtue of the Warkworth Harbour Act, 1847.

The limits of the Harbour shall be such part of the River Coquet as lies between Warkworth Bridge and the sea, and so far on either side of the mid-channel of the said river as the tide usually flows, and that the jurisdiction of the Commissioners shall extend within the limits as above described, and also for a distance of a quarter of a mile on either side of the piers and works of the said Harbour within the township of Amble, and the orders of the Commissioners and the harbour master for the time being shall be binding on all vessels and persons within such limits as aforesaid. (Warkworth Harbour Act, 1847, s. xxvii.)

1. That any pilot, master, mate, or other person having the charge or command of any ship or vessel entering or leaving the harbour of Warkworth, who disobeys or neglects any of the signals or orders, which have been, and shall from time to time be issued by the harbour master, by the

order of the Commissioners, shall forfeit five pounds for every such disobedience or neglect.

2. That the pilot, master, mate, or other person having the charge or command of any vessel entering the harbour, shall proceed with such vessel to such mooring place as the harbour master may direct, and such vessel shall not leave such mooring place for any purpose whatever, without having first obtained leave of the harbour master, under a penalty of five pounds.

3.—That the pilot, master, mate, or other person in command of any vessel arriving within the limits of the harbour, shall properly moor the same vessel, under the direction of the harbour master; and shall take care whilst the said vessel is so moored, that there is, at all times, a proper buoy and buoy-rope to the anchor thereof, and that all booms and boom irons are taken off the yards, and that the jib and mizzen booms are rigged in, and the yards peaked up, under a penalty of five pounds.

4.—That the master, mate, or other person in charge of any vessel lying at any staith, spout, or drop, within the said limits, shall not allow the anchor of such vessel to lie in the channel, under a penalty of five pounds.

5. That the master, mate, or other person in charge or command of any ship or other sea-going vessel, under sail or being towed, or of any steam tug moving within the said limits, shall show a bright light between sunset and sunrise, in such a position that it may be best seen, under a penalty of five pounds.

6. That the master, mate, or other person in charge of any steam vessel having in tow within the said limits, any ship or other sea-going vessel, shall exhibit, between sunset and sunrise, two bright lights at the mast head, as well as the side lights according to Admiralty regulations,' under a penalty of five pounds.

7.-That the pilot, master, mate, or other person having

1 Presumably the lights mentioned in Article 3 (b) and (c) of the Collision Regulations, 1863, which are the same as those prescribed by Article 3 (b) and (c) of the 1884 Rules.

the charge or command of any vessel whilst being towed in or out the harbour, shall have a tow-rope out of each bow of such vessel properly secured on board the steamboat, under a penalty of five pounds.

8. That the master, mate, or other person having the charge or command of any vessel lying in the harbour, shall have a watchman on board such vessel two hours before and two hours after high water; and shall, if required, cause ropes, chains, or other fastenings to be slackened, tightened, or thrown off, as the case may require, under a penalty of five pounds.

18. No steamboat is allowed to tow into or out of the harbour more than one vessel at once, without the permission of the harbour master, under a penalty on the master, mate, or other person having the charge or command of such steamboat, of five pounds for every such offence.

WATERFORD.

See SUIR RIVER, ante, p. 260.

Bye-laws passed by the Commissioners for Improving the Port and Harbour of Waterford, 5th September, 1870, by virtue of the Provisions of 9 & 10 Vict. c. ccxcii.

The Port and Harbour of Waterford extends to and includes all the space commonly called the River Suir, being within the flux and reflux of the tide, within the following limits; that is to say, from Granagh Castle to the Hook Lighthouse, including all the space between the junction of the Ross River with the said River Suir and the said Hook Lighthouse, and from Bilberry Rock to Swing Head in the County of Waterford, including St. Katherine's, commonly called St. John's Pill (9 & 10 Vict. c. ccxcii, s. 52).

1. That all vessels lying in the stream for twelve hours shall be sufficiently moored with two anchors.