Chapter 102. To adopt special rules for the navigation of harbors, rivers and inland waters of the United States, except the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal, supplementary to the Act of August nineteenth, eighteeen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regula
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CHAP. 102.— An Act To adopt special rules for the navigation of harbors, rivers and inland waters of the United States, except the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal, supplementary to the Act of August nineteenth, eighteeen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”February 19, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Navigation.Rules to prevent, collisions extended to inland waters.[R.
S., secs. 4233, 4412, 4413, pp. 814, 854](/us/rs/s4233/4412/4413/pp814/854).Vol. 26, p. 320. That on and after March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the provisions of sections forty-two hundred and thirty-three, forty-four hundred and twelve, and forty-four hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes and regulations pursuant thereto shall be followed on the harbors, rivers and inland waters of the United States. The provisions of said sections of the Revised Statutes and regulationsDeclined special rules for harbors, etc. pursuant thereto are hereby declared special rules duly made by local authority relative to the navigation of harbors, rivers and inland Vol. 26, p. 328.waters as provided for in Article thirty, of the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.
” Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, empoweredLine of high seas to be defined. 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. Sec 3. Collectors or other chief officers of the customs shall requireSignal lights. all sail vessels to be furnished with proper signal lights. Every such vessel that shall be navigated without complying with the Statutes of the United States, or the regulations that may be lawfully made Penalty for violations.thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars, one-half to go to the informer; for which sum the vessel so navigated shall be liable, and may be seized and proceeded against by way of libel in any District court of the United States having jurisdiction of the offense.
Sec. 4. The words “inland waters” used in this Act shall not be heldInland waters defined. to include the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters Great Lakes not affected.*Ante*, p. 645.as far east as Montreal; and this Act shall not in any respect modify or affect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters,” approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Approved, February 19, 1895.
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