Chapter 98. To provide for warning signals on vessels working on wrecks or engaged in dredging or other submarine work, and to amend section two of the Act approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and
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CHAP. 98.— An Act To provide for warning signals on vessels working on wrecks or engaged in dredging or other submarine work, and to amend section two of the Act approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States.”May 25, 1914.[[S. 5289](/us/bill/63/s/5289).][[Public, No. 107](/us/pl/63/107).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section two of the Act Collisions on inland waters.Vol. 36, p. 102, amended.approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States,” be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2. That the supervising inspectors of steam vessels and the Supervising Rules for carrying lights, etc.Inspector General shall establish such rules to be observed by steam vessels in passing each other and as to the lights to be carried by ferryboats and by barges and canal boats when in tow of steam vessels, and as to the lights and day signals to be carried by vessels, dredges of all types, and vessels working on wrecks by other obstruction Extended to wrecking vessels, etc.to navigation or moored for submarine operations, or made fast to a sunken object which may drift with the tide or be towed, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as they from time to time may deem necessary for safety, which rules when approved by Declared special rules, etc.Vol. 26, p. 328.the Secretary of Commerce are hereby declared special rules duly made by local authority, as provided for in article thirty of chapter eight hundred and two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety.
Two printed copies of such rules shall be furnished to such ferryboats, Posting on vessels required.barges, dredges, canal boats, vessels working on wrecks, and steam vessels, which rules shall be kept posted up in conspicuous places in such vessels, barges, dredges, and boats.”" Approved, May 25, 1914.