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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · February 23, 1895 · Chapter 127

Chapter 127. To postpone the enforcement of the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”February 23, 1895

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CHAP. 127.— An Act To postpone the enforcement of the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”February 23, 1895. Whereas the President, in accordance with the proposition of GreatPreamble. Britain to enforce on March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the revised international regulations for preventing collisions at sea, and on the representations of that Government that those regulations had received the general approval of the several foreign maritime powers, Vol. 26, p. 328.pursuant to section three of the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea,” issued on July thirteenth, eighteen hundred *Post*, p. 1250.and ninety-four, his proclamation fixing March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as the time when the provisions of said Act, as amended, embodying said revised international regulations shall take effect; and Whereas the Government of Great Britain has withdrawn from the position, communicated to this Government on April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, that no time should be lost in carrying those regulations into effect, and on January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, announced to this Government that the Government of Great Britain now finds it impossible until Parliament has been consulted to fix a date for bringing the regulations into force, and earnestly requests this Government to consent to a temporary postponement of the enforcement of said regulations; and Whereas it is desirable that the revised international regulations forCollisions at sea. preventing collisions at sea shall be put into force simultaneously by the maritime powers:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Enforcement of act postponed.Vol. 26, p. 328. That said Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, take effect not on March first, *Post*, p. 1259.eighteen hundred and ninety-five, but at a subsequent time, to be fixed by the President by proclamation issued for that purpose Approved, February 23, 1895. Chapter 128: To amend the Articles for the Government of the Navy.
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