FRENCH HARBOR REGULATIONS.

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All vessels on arriving in a port shall have their sprit-sailyards, dolphin-strikers, and flying-jib-booms rigged in, jib-booms teady to come in, sails clewed up, lower yards cock-billed, draught of water given to the port-officers, warps andhawsers ready, and the master, to the best of his judgment,or by a verbal order of the port-officers, shall take allother necessary measures to prevent any accident.

No anchor must be slipped in the fairway, and whenslipped in any other part of the harbor must be fitted witha buoy and buoy-rope.

Any vessel taking ground before reaching the properplace of mooring, shall have the top-gallant masts and top-masts lowered, the boats launched, and the master, to thebest of his judgment, or by a verbal order of the port-offi-cers, shall take all other precautions to prevent any acci-dent.

Every master arriving in port shall, after conforming tothe sanitary regulations, within tw'enty-four hours make areport in writing to the port-officers of the name of thevessel, tonnage, number of crew, and the nature of his cargo.

Vessels shall be berthed in the docks by priority of entry,according to the order of reporting at the custom-house, tothe nature of their cargo, their draught of water, and thecustom of the port.

When a vessel on entering may require to let go her an-chors in the tidal basin, such anchors shall be picked upwithin twenty-four hours by the crew, or at the ship’s ex-pense, and deposited on board, if the vessel be at hand, oron the quay, if the vessel cannot or will not receive them.

The larger steam-vessels, arriving and departing at fixeddates, shall have the precedence over all other vessels, bothinward and outward.

Besides the two signal-guns fired by them on arrivingand departing, their arrival and departure shall be an-nounced to all other vessels by a flag, that each one maybring-to, or delay entering or departing, as the meaning ofthe signal shall prescribe.

Vessels lying aground in the tidal basin, either to awaitthe tide to enter the docks, or for a favorable wind, or forany other motive, shall not remain moored to the buoysnor aground in the channel of the port. A light shall be