FRANCE: Identical. GERMANY: Identical. ITALY: Identical. JAPAN: Identical. MEXICO: Identical. NORWAY: Identical. SIAM: Identical. SWEDEN: Identical. THE NETHERLANDS: GREAT BRITAIN: ARTICLE 25. Nothing in these rules shall interfere with the operation of a special rule, duly made by local authority, relative to the navigation of any harbor, river, or inland navigation. UNITED STATES: Identical. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: Identical. BELGIUM: Identical. CHILI: This article omitted. DENMARK: Identical. FRANCE: Identical. GERMANY: Identical. ITALY: Identical. JAPAN: Identical. MEXICO: This article omitted. NORWAY: Identical. SIAM: This article omitted, but see preamble to the Siamese rules, SWEDEN: Identical. THE NETHERLANDS: Identical. GREAT BRITAIN : ARTICLE 26. Nothing in these rules shall interfere with the operation of any special rules made by the Government of any nation with respect to additional station and signal lights for two or more ships of war or for ships sailing under convoy. UNITED STATES: Identical. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: Identical, except that the word "additional," before the words "station and signal lights," is omitted. BELGIUM: Identical. CHILI: This article is omitted. DENMARK: Identical, except that the word "additional," before the words "station and signal lights," is omitted. ARTICLE 27. When a ship is in distress and requires assistance from other ships or from the shore, the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, that is to say: In the daytime First. A gun fired at intervals of about a minute. GREAT BRITAIN-continued. Second. The international code signal of distress indicated by N. C. Third. The distant signal, consisting of a square flag, having either above or below it a ball, or anything resembling a ball. At night First. A gun fired at intervals of about a minute. Second. Flames on the ship (as from a burning tar-barrel, oil-barrel, and so forth). Third. Rockets or shells, throwing stars of any color or description, fired one at a time, at short intervals. UNITED STATES: Identical. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY:* BELGIUM:* CHILI:* DENMARK :* FRANCE: Identical. GERMANY: Identical. Given by the imperial decree of August 14, 1876. Identical. Given by the royal order of October 10, 1875. * Some powers have not considered this article which provides signals for ships in distress as proper to be inserted in regulations for preventing collisions at sea, and have therefore omitted it. NOTE. In the case of Mexico and Siam the rules furnished to the Conference are dated prior to 1884, and it is not known whether these countries have adopted the changes introduced in 1884, and subsequently, into the rules of other countries. It has, therefore, not always been possible, in the case of Mexico and Siam, to apply the same method of comparison with the rules of Great Britain, as has been applied with regard to other countries. FINAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COLLOCATION OF THE RULES. RESOLUTION. Resolved, That a Committee on Collocation of Rules, to consist of seven persons, be appointed by the President. MOTION. Mr. GOODRICH (United States). That the several committees be increased each by two, and that the Committee on Collocation also be increased by two members. To Rear-Admiral SAMUEL R. FRANKLIN, U. S. Navy, President of the International Marine Conference, etc.: Washington. SIR: In compliance with the resolution passed by the Conference on 20th instant, your committee have completed their former report by embodying into the regulations and notes the changes and additions recently adopted by the Conference. The final regulations and notes, as revised by your committee are hereto annexed in Appendices A and B, respectively. We have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servants, APPENDIX A. REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA. PRELIMINARY. These rules shall be followed by all vessels upon the high seas and in all waters connected therewith, navigable by sea-going vessels. In the following rules every steam vessel which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing vessel, and every vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a steam-vessel. The word "steam-vessel" shall include any vessel propelled by machinery. A vessel is "under way" within the meaning of these rules, when she is not at anchor, or made fast to the shore, or aground. RULES CONCERNING LIGHTS, ETC. The word "visible" in these rules when applied to lights shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere. ARTICLE 1. The rules concerning lights shall be complied with in all weathers from sunset to sunrise, and during such time no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited. ART. 2. A steam-vessel when under way shall carry (a) On or in front of the foremast, or if a vessel without a foremast then in the fore part of the vessel, at a height above the hull of not less than 20 feet, and if the breadth of the vessel exceeds 20 feet, then at a height above the hull not less than such breadth, so however, that the light need not be carried at a greater height above the hull than 40 feet, a bright white light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an are of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light 10 points on each side of the vessel, viz., from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least 5 miles. (b) On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an |