6 feet and not more than 12 feet, and the horizontal distance between them, if any, shall not be more than 10 feet.  These two lights shall be of such a character and contained in lanterns of such construction as to be visible all round the horizon on a dark night with a clear atmosphere, the white light to a distance of not less than 3 miles and the red light of not less than 2 miles.

  (d) A vessel employed in line fishing with her lines out shall
  carry the same lights as a vessel when engaged in fishing with drift
  nets.

(e) If a vessel when fishing with a trawl, dredge, or any kind of dragnet becomes stationary in consequence of her gear getting fast to a rock or other obstruction, she shall show the light and make the fog signal for a vessel at anchor.

(f) Fishing vessels and open boats may at any time use a flare-up in addition to the lights which they are by this article required to carry and show.  All flare-up lights exhibited by a vessel when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of dragnet shall be shown at the after part of the vessel, excepting that if the vessel is hanging by the stern to her trawl, dredge, or dragnet they shall be exhibited from the bow.

  (g) Every fishing vessel and every open boat when at anchor
  between sunset and sunrise shall exhibit a white light visible all round
  the horizon at a distance of at least 1 mile.

(h) In a fog a drift-net vessel attached to her nets, and a vessel when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of dragnet, and a vessel employed in line fishing with her lines out shall at intervals of not more than two minutes make a blast with her fog horn and ring her bell alternately.

And whereas an act of Congress entitled “An act to postpone the enforcement of the act of August 19, 1890, entitled ’An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea,’” was approved February 23, 1895, the said act being in the following words: 

Whereas the President, in accordance with the proposition of Great Britain to enforce on March 1, 1895, the “Revised international regulations for preventing collisions at sea,” and on the representations of that Government that those regulations had received the general approval of the several foreign maritime powers, pursuant to section 3 of the act of August 19, 1890, entitled “An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea,” issued on July 13, 1894, his proclamation[41] fixing March 1, 1895, as the time when the provisions of said act, as amended, embodying said revised international regulations, shall take effect; and

Whereas the Government of Great Britain has withdrawn from the position communicated to this Government on April 25, 1894, that no time should be lost in carrying those regulations into effect, and on January 16, 1895, announced to this Government