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Be | MARINE REVIEW. St. Mary's Falls Canal, Michigan. THE LAW--EXTRACT FROM ACT OF CONGRESS, AUG. 17, 1894. Src. 4. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of war to prescribe snch rules and regulations for the use, administration, and navigation of any or all canals and similar works of navigation that now are, or that here after may be, owned, operated or maintained by the United States as in his judgment the public necessity may require. Such rules and regulations shall be posted in conspicuous and appro- priate places, for the information of the public; and every person andevery corporation which shali knowingly and wilfully violate such rules and regu- lations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction there- of in any district court in the United States within whose territorial jurisl diction such offense may have been committed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment (in the case of-a natural person) not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court. RULES AND REGULATIONS.--ADMINISTRATION. I. The canal and all its appurtenances shall be in charge of the officer of the corps of engineers, United States army, detailed for that duty by the secretary of war. His representative at the locality shall be the assistant engineer in local charge of the works of river and harbor improvement, who, for canal purposes, shall be styled general superintendent. Except in case of emergency, all orders and instructions from the engineer officer in charge, shall be communicated to the canal force through the general superintendent. In case of emergency, however, he is authorized to take such steps as may be immediately necessary without waiting for instruc- tions from the engineer officer in charge. 2. The canal force shall consist of one superintendent, one clerk, three assistant superintendents, and such enginemen, watchmen, foremen, lock- men and laborers as may be necessary to the efficient operation of the cana and care of grounds and other public property pertaining to the canal. 3. The superintendent shall be charged with the immediate contol and management of the entire force. He shall see that all the members perform their respective duties, and that all rules and regulations for use of the canal and grounds are duly enforced, to which end he is authorized to give all necessary orders and directions in accordance with said rules and regulations, both to employes of the government and to any or every person within the limits of the canal or the grounds pertaining thereto whether navigating the canal or not. In case of his absence or disability his duties shall be performed on their respective watches by the assistant superintendents. 4. The clerk shall keep the books and records pertaining to the canal and grounds. He shall see to the collection of all required statistical in- formation relating to the business of the canal. He shall prepare all vouchers and accounts and perform all other duties that may arise of a similar character. 5. 'The remainder of the canal force shall be divided into three watches, each consisting of one assistant superintendent and the necessary engine- men, watchmen, foremen, lockmen and laborers. The duration of each watch shall be eight hours, and the watches shall be kept in rotation, but in case of emergency, the superintendent may vary the duration of the watches, the ordinary routine to be resumed as soon as the emergency has passed. 5 6. Under the personal direction of its assistant superintendent, the individual members of each watch during its tour of duty will be employed in passing vessels through the canal, in the care and protection of thecanal and grounds, as well as of all other property belonging to the United States. They are enjoined to be diligent and attentive in the performance of their duties, courteous but firm to all with whom they come in contact, and to never lose sight of the fact that the purpose of their employment is to facilitate the use of the canal. USE AND NAVIGATION OF THE CANAI,. 7. The canal grounds when used in these rules will mean all of these grounds which have been set aside for the use of the canal or occupied in its construction and including the area covered by its riparian rights. Therefore, the western limit is the end of the pier on which the lighthouse stands and the eastern limit is the northeastern corner of Old Fort Brady reservation. The canal is the water lying between these two points and the bed and banks containing the same. 8. The movement of all vessels, boats or other floating things, in the canal shall be under the direction of the superintendent and his assistants, whose orders and instructions must be obeyed. g. All steamers desiring to use the locks shall signal for the same by two long and two short blasts of the whistle. _ 10.. No tow shall enter or pass through the canal with a tow line more than 4oo feet in length. 11, In passing the canal, vessels or boats belonging to the United States government shall have precedence over all others. All registered merchant vessels must pass through the canal and locks in' the order of their arrival at the canal, unless otherwise directed by the superintendent or his assistant in charge. The time of arrival at the canal will be the time of crossing the straight lines which join the extremes of the piers of the eastern and western ends of the canal, respectively. Unregistered craft will not be locked separately unless specially permitted by the superin- tendent or by one of the assistant superintendents of the canal, 12, No person in charge of a boat coming from above shall bring it within 4oo feet of the upper gates until they are made ready for it to enter, and no person in charge of a boat coming from below shall bring it within 200 feet of the lower gates until they are ready for entrance. Cy 13. Upon each passage through the canal, masters or clerks of vessels or boats shall report to the canal office, upon prescribed forms, a statement of passengers, freight, and registered tonnage, and such other statistical information as may be required by the blank forms which are issued to them for the purpose. . ; 14. No business, trading, or landing of freight or baggage, will be al- lowed on or over the canal piers or lock walls, nor over the piers or grounds forming a part of the canal or its appurtenances, except such small articles as may be readily carried in the hand. All persons in charge of, or employed on, any ferry boat are prohibited landing such boat at any of the canal piers. 15. No person in charge of, or employed on, any vessel or boat shall moor it to the piers except when specially permitted by the superinten- dent, and then only in such places and for such times as he may direct. 16. No person shall throw any material of any kind into the canal; nor shall any person clean flues in the locks. 17. All persons, whether in charge of vessels or not, are prohibited from wilfully or carelessly damaging the canal grounds, the canal, or any part thereof. 18. No person shall enter or navigate the canal with a boat which when entering, or while navigating the canal, shall have an iron or irons projecting from it, or rough surface or surfaces on it, which would be liable to damage the lock walls or canal piers. 19. No person shall cause or permit any vessel or boat of which he is in charge, or on which he is employed, to in any way obstruct the canal, or delay in passing through it, unless he is permitted to do so. by the su- perintendent or one of the assistant superintendents of the canal. 20. In case of any vessel, boat, or other craft or raft sinking or grounding in the canal, or otherwise obstructing it, the general superin- tendent, or, in his absence, the superintendent of the canal, or the assistant superintendent for the time being, acting as superintendent, shall have the right to take such possession of such vessel, boat, or other craft or raft, as shall be necessary for the purpose, and remove it and clear the canal of the obstruction caused by it, and no one shall interfere with or prohibit him from doing so, or do anything that will tend to interfere with or prohibit him from doing so. 21. On the canal being obstructed by a vessel or boat or other craft, or araft, by sinking, grounding or otherwise, the general superintendent of the canal, the superintendent or one of the assistant superintendents, in the contingency and in the sequence named in the preceding paragraph, may give notice in writing. ' The foregoing rules and regulations shall be of force and effect upon the opening of navigation for the season of 1896, DANIEL S. LAMONT, Secretary of War In General. A premium of $250 is offered by the Scientific American, New York, for the best essay on the "Progress of Invention During the Past \Fifty Years." For the purpose of assisting in the detection of icebergs this spring, the American line has had the steamer St. Paul equipped witha 2,000 candle-power searchlight, which is carried in an iron cage over the ship's bow at the water's edge. ig Production of pig iron throughout the country remains practically stationary, at a rate which the accumulation of stocks shows to be ex- cessive. The production on May 1 was at the rate of 188,319 gross tons weekly, as against 187,451 tons on April 1 and 189,583 tons on March He Branches, or harbors as they are called, of the American Association of Masters and Pilots of Steam Vessels are now in operation in five lake ports as follows: No. 33, Chicago; No. 34 Saugatuck, Mich.; No. 41, Buffalo; No. 42, Cleveland, and No. 43, Toledo. Immediately after the close of navigation, Capt. B. F. Perkins, the grand secretary of the org4 nization, will institute harbors in Detroit, Port Huron, West Bay City, Milwaukee and Duluth. Beginning some time next month, the secretary will accompany Capt. W.S..Van Keuren, grand captain of the association on a tour of the Atlantic and gulf harbors. é About 40,000 cubic yards of earth and 9,600 cubic yards of rock dredg- ing at Ashtabula Harbor will be done by the Cleveland Dredging Co. at 12 cents per cubic yard in accordance with bids on the work opened on Saturday last.