nd, President of the United States, do
hereby command all persons engaged in or in any way connected with such
unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages to disperse and
retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 3 o'clock in
the afternoon on the 10th day of July instant.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be hereto affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 9th day of July, A.D. 1894, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas an act of Congress entitled "An act to adopt regulations for
preventing collisions at sea" was approved August 19, 1890, the said act
being in the following words:

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_, That the following
regulations for preventing collisions at sea shall be followed by all
public and private vessels of the United States upon the high seas and
in all waters connected therewith navigable by seagoing vessels:

PRELIMINARY.

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 words "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