Rules and Regulations Relating to the Navigable Waters of the United States with the Exception of Those for the Northern and Northwestern Lakes and Their Connecting and Tributary Waters, which are Printed in the United States Lake Survey Bulletins: Pub. by Authority of the Secretary of War. Office of the Chief of Engineers, July, 1914 |
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... enter the lock . All vessels must be sufficiently manned and must have a sufficient number of round and fore - and - aft fenders to protect the lock from injury . All heavy rope fenders must be securely lashed to prevent their falling ...
... enter the lock . All vessels must be sufficiently manned and must have a sufficient number of round and fore - and - aft fenders to protect the lock from injury . All heavy rope fenders must be securely lashed to prevent their falling ...
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... enter the lock under their own power and without having lines out , but all other vessels , including those which are accompanied by towboats , must attach not less than two good and sufficient lines , cables . or hawsers to the ...
... enter the lock under their own power and without having lines out , but all other vessels , including those which are accompanied by towboats , must attach not less than two good and sufficient lines , cables . or hawsers to the ...
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... Entering Vineyard Sound from the westward a vessel in the fairway bound eastward through Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds and Pollock Rip Slue will have the limits of the anchorage on the starboard hand ( all bearings being magnetic and ...
... Entering Vineyard Sound from the westward a vessel in the fairway bound eastward through Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds and Pollock Rip Slue will have the limits of the anchorage on the starboard hand ( all bearings being magnetic and ...
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... Entering Vineyard Sound from the westward a vessel in the fairway bound eastward through Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds and Pollock Rip Slue will have the limits of the anchorage on the port hand ( all bearings being mag- netic and ...
... Entering Vineyard Sound from the westward a vessel in the fairway bound eastward through Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds and Pollock Rip Slue will have the limits of the anchorage on the port hand ( all bearings being mag- netic and ...
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... entered the block in which the bridge is located , or when any other train which will entirely cross the bridge before stopping has reached the distance signal of the bridge , and is in motion toward the bridge , or when a passenger or ...
... entered the block in which the bridge is located , or when any other train which will entirely cross the bridge before stopping has reached the distance signal of the bridge , and is in motion toward the bridge , or when a passenger or ...
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Page 274 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuse, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless...
Page 277 - States, and such commissioner, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law in case of crimes against the United States...
Page 174 - That it shall not be lawful to throw, discharge, or deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure to be thrown, discharged, or deposited either from or out of any ship, barge, or other floating craft of any kind, or from the shore, wharf, manufacturing establishment, or mill of any kind, any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any navigable water of the United States...
Page 274 - Army ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuse, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of the Army prior to beginning the same.
Page 277 - That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to prescribe such rules and regulations for the use, administration, and navigation of any or all canals and similar works of navigation that now are, or that hereafter may be, owned, operated, or maintained by the United States as in his judgment the public necessity may require.
Page 5 - Rule for steamers, derrick boats, lighters, or other types of vessels made fast alongside a wreck, or moored over a wreck which is on the bottom or partly submerged, or which may be drifting. Steamers, derrick boats, lighters, or other types of vessels made fast alongside a wreck, or moored over a wreck which is on the bottom or partly submerged...
Page 199 - ... when she shall have arrived within half a mile of such curve or bend^ shall give a signal by one long blast of the steam whistle...
Page 65 - ... solids, oxidizing materials, corrosive liquids, compressed gases, and poisonous substances, which shall be binding upon all common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce which transport explosives or other dangerous articles by land or water...
Page 30 - That the work shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the Engineer officer of the United States Army in charge of the locality, who may temporarily suspend the work at any time if, in his judgment, the interests 01 navigation so requires.
Page 6 - Vessels intending to pass dredges or other types of floating plant working in navigable channels, when within a reasonable distance therefrom and not in any case over a mile, shall indicate such intention by one long blast of the whistle, and shall be directed to the proper side for passage by the sounding, by the dredge or other floating plant, of the signal prescribed in the local pilot rules for vessels under way...