4. The clerk shall keep the books and records pertaining to the canal and grounds. He shall see to the collections of all required statistical information relating to the business of the canal. He shall prepare all vouchers 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 enginemen, 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. 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 the canal 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 CANAL. 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. 9. 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 towline more than 400 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 at the eastern and western ends of the canal, respectively. Unregistered craft will not be locked separately unless specially per mitted by the superintendent 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 400 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. 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 allowed on or over the canal piers or lock walls, nor over the piers or grounds forming a part of the canal or its app tenances, except such small articles as may be readily carried in the hand. All persons charge of or employed on any ferryboat are prohibited landing such boat at any of th piers. 15. No person in charge of or employed on any vessel or boat shall moor it to the prers except when specially permitted by the superintendent, 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 willfully 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 superintendent 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 superintendent, 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 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 a raft, 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 for the government of St. Mary's Falls Canal, Mich., shall be of force and effect upon the opening of navigation for the season of 1895.1 DANIEL S. LAMONT. Secretary of War. 1 These rules were in force unamended in 1912. APPENDIX XX. REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF WAR FOR THE USE, ADMINISTRATION, AND NAVIGATION OF THE LOUISVILLE AND PORTLAND CANAL. |