"At night—
"First. A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute.
"Second. Flames on the vessel (as from a burning tar barrel, oil barrel, etc.).
"Third. Rockets or shells throwing stars of any color or description, fired one at a time at short intervals.
"Fourth. A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus."
And whereas it is provided by section 3 of the act approved August 19, 1890, that it shall take effect at a time to be fixed by the President by proclamation issued for that purpose:
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act aforesaid, proclaim the 1st day of March, 1895, as the day on which the said act approved August 19, 1890, as amended by the act approved May 28, 1894, shall take effect.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of July, 1894, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.