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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 27 STAT. · March 3, 1893 · Chapter 202

Chapter 202. to amend rule seven, section forty-two hundred and thirty-three, Revised Statutes, relating to rules for preventing collisions on the water

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CHAP. 202.— An Act to amend rule seven, section forty-two hundred and thirty-three, Revised Statutes, relating to rules for preventing collisions on the water.March 3, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Navigation.Rules for preventing collisions.[R. S. sec. 4233, p. 816, amended](/us/rs/t/s4233/p816). That rule seven, section forty-two hundred and thirty three, Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding in the last paragraph of that rule, after the word “ferryboats,” and preceding the word “shall,” a comma and the words “barges and canal boats when in tow of steam vessels,” so as to read:
" “The lights for ferryboats, barges and canal boats when in tow ofLights for barges and canal boats. steam vessels, shall be regulated by such rules as the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels shall prescribe.” " Approved, March 3, 1893.
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