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PART XXXV.-AIDS TO NAVIGATION.

371. Assistance by United States ves

sels.

372. Removal of derelicts.

373. Lights and buoys. 374. Nautical Almanac. 375. Charts and manuals.

R. S., 2759.

R. S., 1536.

Oct. 81, 1893.

Mar. 3, 1905.

May 12, 1906.

376. Storms and weather signals.
377. Meridians.

378. Private signals.

379. Interference with range lights. 380. Exemption from tolls.

371. Assistance by United States vessels.

The revenue-cutters on the northern and northwestern lakes, when put in commission, shall be specially charged with aiding vessels in distress on the lakes.

The President may, when the necessities of the service permit it, cause any suitable number of public vessels adapted to the purpose to cruise upon the coast in the season of severe weather and to afford such aid to distressed navigators as their circumstances may require; and such public vessels shall go to sea fully prepared to render such assistance.

372. Removal of derelicts.

The President of the United States is hereby authorized to make with the several governments interested in the navigation of the North Atlantic Ocean an international agreement providing for the reporting, marking, and removal of dangerous wrecks, derelicts, and other menaces to navigation in the North Atlantic Ocean outside the coast waters of the respective countries bordering thereon.

The President in his discretion may temporarily detail any vessel or vessels of the Navy to remove or destroy derelicts in the course of vessels at sea. The regulations. to govern the detail and service of said vessels shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy and approved by the President.

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have constructed, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, a steam vessel specially fitted for and adapted to service at sea in bad weather, for the purpose of blowing up or otherwise destroying or towing into port wrecks, derelicts, and other floating dangers to navigation, said vessel to be operated and maintained by the Revenue-Cutter Service under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

873. Lights and buoys.

June 17, 1910 '

Sec. 6.

The Commissioner of Light-Houses may, when he R. 8., 4676. deems it necessary, place a light-vessel, or other suitable warning of danger, on or over any wreck or temporary obstruction to the entrance of any harbor, or in the channel or fairway of any bay or sound.

Sec. 6.

The Commissioner of Light-Houses shall properly R. 8., 4677. mark all pier-heads belonging to the United States sit- June 17, 1910. uated on the northern and northwestern lakes, whenever he is duly notified by the department charged with the construction or repair of pier-heads that the construction or repair of any such pier-heads has been completed.

All buoys along the coast, or in bays, harbors, sounds, R. S., 4078. or channels, shall be colored and numbered, so that passing up the coast or sound, or entering the bay, harbor, or channel, red buoys with even numbers shall be passed on the starboard hand, black buoys with uneven numbers on the port hand, and buoys with red and black stripes on either hand. Buoys in channel-ways shall be colored with alternate white and black perpendicular stripes.

874. Nautical Almanac.

Hereafter the "usual number" of copies of the Amer- May 13, 1902 ican Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac shall not be printed. In lieu thereof there shall be printed and bound one thousand one hundred copies of the same, uniform with the editions printed for the Navy Department, as provided in section seventy-three, paragraph five, of an Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing, binding, and distribution of public documents; one hundred copies for the Senate, four hundred for the House, and six hundred for the Superintendent of Documents for distribution to State and Territorial libraries and designated depositories.

375. Charts and manuals.

There shall be a Hydrographic office attached to the R. S., 481. Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, for the improvement of the means for navigating safely the vessels of the Navy and of the mercantile marine, by providing, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, accurate and cheap nautical charts, sailing directions, navigators, and manuals of instructions for the use of all vessels of the United States, and for the benefit and use of navigators generally.

The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause to be R. 8., 432. prepared, at the Hydrographic Office attached to the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, maps, charts, and nautical books relating to and required in navigation, and to publish and furnish them to navigators at the cost of printing and paper, and to purchase the plates and copyrights of such existing maps, charts, navigators, sail

R. S., 4691.

ing directions and instructions, as he may consider neces sary, and when he may consider it expedient to do so, and under such regulations and instructions as he may prescribe.

The charts published by the Coast Survey shall be sold June 20, 1878. at the office at Washington at the price of the printing and paper thereof, and elsewhere at the same price with the average cost of delivery added thereto; and hereafter there shall be no free distribution of such charts except to the departments of the United States and to the several States and officers of the United States requiring them for public use.

Mar. 3, 1879.

Oct. 1, 1890.
Sec. 3.

R. S., 435.

May 28, 1908.
Sec. 7.

Senators, Representatives and Delegates to the House of Representatives shall each be entitled to not more than ten charts published by the Coast Survey for each regular session of Congress.

376. Storm and weather signals.

The Chief of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall have charge of the forecasting of weather, the issue of storm warnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation, the gauging and reporting of rivers, the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation, the reporting of temperature and rain-fall conditions for the cotton interests, the display of frost and cold-wave signals, the distribution of meteorological information in the interests of agriculture and commerce, and the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States, or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties.

377. Meridians.

The meridian of the Observatory at Washington shall be adopted and used as the American meridian for all astronomical purposes, and the meridian of Greenwich shall be adopted for all nautical purposes.

378. Private signals.

If a shipowner desires to use for the purpose of a private code any rockets, lights, or other similar signals, he may register those signals and house flags and funnel marks with the Commissioner of Navigation, who shall give public notice from time to time of the signals, house flags, and funnel marks so registered in such manner as he may think requisite for preventing those signals from being mistaken for signals of distress or signals for pilots. The Commissioner of Navigation may refuse to register any signals which in his opinion can not easily be distinguished from signals of distress, signals for pilots, or signals prescribed by laws for preventing collisions.

379. Interference with range lights.

May 14, 1908.

June 17, 1910.

It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or interfere with any aid to navigation established or maintained Sec. 6. in the Light-House Service under the Bureau of LightHouses, or to anchor any vessel in any of the navigable waters of the United States so as to obstruct or interfere with range lights maintained therein, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to a fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars for each offense, and each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense.

380. Exemption from tolls.

Sec. 4.

No tolls or operating charges whatever shall be levied July 5, 1884. upon or collected from any vessel, dredge, or other water craft for passing through any lock, canal, canalized river, or other work for the use and benefit of navigation, now belonging to the United States or that may be hereafter Mar. 3, 1909. acquired or constructed.

Sec. 6.

PART XXXVI. OBSTRUCTIONS TO NAVIGATION.

381. Improvements by private or mu

nicipal corporations.

382. Bridges, dams, dikes. 383. General obstructions. 384. Harbor lines.

385. Penalties.

386. Dumping into navigable waters.
387. Impairing public works.
388. Obstructing channels.
389. Log regulations.

June 13, 1902.

Mar. 23, 1906.

390. Penalties.

391. Bridge spans.

392. Bridge piers and abutments.
393. Drawbridges.

394. Sunken wrecks.

395. Speed of vessels-navigation of canals.

396. Potomac River.

397. Mississippi River passes.

381. Improvements by private or municipal corporations.
Any person or persons, corporations, municipal or pri-
vate, who desire to improve any navigable river, or any
part thereof, at their or its own expense and risk may
do so upon the approval of the plans and specifications of
said proposed improvement by the Secretary of War and
Chief of Engineers of the Army. The plan of said im-
provement must conform with the general plan of the
Government improvements, must not impede navigation,
and no toll shall be imposed on account thereof, and said
improvement shall at all times be under the control and
supervision of the Secretary of War and Chief of Engi-

neers.

382. Bridges, dams, dikes.

When, hereafter, authority is granted by Congress to any persons to construct and maintain a bridge across or over any of the navigable waters of the United States, such bridge shall not be built or commenced until the plans and specifications for its construction, together with such drawings of the proposed construction and such map of the proposed location as may be required for a full understanding of the subject, have been submitted to the Secretary of War and Chief of Engineers for their approval, nor until they shall have approved such plans and specifications and the location of such bridge and accessory works; and when the plans for any bridge to be constructed under the provisions of this Act have been approved by the Chief of Engineers and by the Secretary of War it shall not be lawful to deviate from such plans, either before or after completion of the structure, unless the modification of such plans has previously been submitted to and received the approval of the Chief of Engineers and of the Secretary of War.

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