The Manhattan’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““Regulations. '“(1) Tows of seagoing barges navigating the inland waters of the United States are limited in length to four vessels, including the towing vessel or vessels. 1 “(2) Hawsers are limited in length to 75 fathoms,, measured from the stern of one vessel to the bow of the following vessel; and should in all cases be as much- shorter as the weather or sea will permit. ■ “(3) In cases where the prescribed' length of hawsers is, in the opinion of the master of the. towing vessel, dangerous on account of the state of weather or sea,.hawsers need not be shortened to that length until reaching the localities" named below: (a) Tows bound for Hampton Roads or beyond, before passing Thimble Light, (b) Tows bound up the Chesapeake, to the northward of Baltimore Light, (c) Tows bound up the Delaware, between Fourteen Foot Bank and Cross Ledge Lighthouses. Hawsers may also be lengthened in the same places, under the same circumstances, when tows are bound out. “(4) In case of necessity, on account of wind or weather, hawsers of vessels navigating between Race Rock and Gay Head may be lengthened out in the discretion of (he master of the towing vessel; but this paragraph shall not apply to Narragansett Bay north of Bea vert ail Light. ‘•(5) In all cases where tows can he bunched, it should be done, (a) Tows navigating in the North and Bast Rivers of New York must be lmnclied above a line drawn between the Statue of Liberty and the entrance to Brie Basin. When tows are entering Lo”

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