Chapter 152. To amend section eight hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 152.— An Act To amend section eight hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia. February 8, 1904. [[H. R. 8686](/us/bill/58/hr/8686).] [[Public, No. 16](/us/pl/58/16).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled* , District of Columbia Code. Harbor regulations. Vol. 32, p. 535, amended. Anchorage control extended. That section eight hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia is hereby amended by adding the following to the first paragraph thereof:
" “Sec. 895. Every vessel corning to anchor in any other portion of the navigable waters in the District of Columbia shall also be so moored under the direction of the harbor master, or the pilot of the police boat acting in the harbor master’s absence, as not to obstruct the channel, and be secured with an anchor at bow and stern as to keep the long axis of the vessel parallel with that of the channel and prevent it from swinging so as to obstruct the free passage of the channel by other vessels. ” " Sec. 2.
That the provision in the third paragraph of said sectionRemoving sunken vessels, etc., from docks.Vol. 32, p. 536. requiring “any captain or owner of or anyone in charge of any barge, sand scow, or any vessel that may sink in said canals, shall raise and remove the same in five days,” is hereby made applicable to the captain or owner of any sunken vessel or other structure in any dock or at the end of any wharf in the District of Columbia. Approved, February 8, 1904.