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LAWS CONCERNING FLOATING HOUSES AND BUOYS.
Boats passing one another in Narrow Canal.
Art. VI. In case of boats passing in a narrow canal so that it be impossible to observe the rules of the first article with or against the tide, because of the narrow- ness of the canal, the small boat shall turn out for the larger boat, and the lightly laden boat shall turn out for the one heavily laden.
Mooring Boats in Canal.
If boats lightly or heavily laden would moor in a canal, they shall moor in a line on either side of the canal, so that the way for boats shall not be obstructed. They shall not be moored one abreast of another, nor athwart of the canal, nor in the midst of it. If any person persist in mooring his boat athwart the canal, or mid-way in the canal, or abreast of another, and a boat coming with the flood or ebb tide shall run against said boat and capsize her, and property be damaged to whatever amount, no claims for damages shall be made upon the master of the boat that ran against her.
If it be in the night time, and a boat strike against one thus unlawfully moored, and the boat that runs against the other be upset, and property be damaged or lost, the unlawfully moored boat shall pay the full amount of all damages.
Again,-in the inner canal which surrounds the city proper, and the outer canal called Phadoon kroong krasem, and the canals called Sanon Trong, and Bang Looang, and Bangkok Noi canals, being canals in which many boats pass day and night, no craft shall be allowed to moor for the purpose of fishing with scoop nets, thus obstructing the thoroughfare through them. Whoever would fish with such nets can do so in other canals where the travel is less.
Guard limits out of respect to the Kings.
Art. VII.-An old law of Siam ordains that—In case either of the Kings shall pass on the river, it is forbidden all persons to paddle or row their boats in front of, or near the procession, or near the side of it, or in any way to get into the procession.
And when either of the Kings shall come down to float F'ra-pra-t'ep (illuminated floats) on the river in the evening, according to Royal custom on the 11th and 12th Siamese months annually, three days in each month, or when the Kings shall on other days come down to their seats near the river, or to other places on the river, and there be guard limits defined and guards established, it is forbidden persons who have no proper business within those limits to enter therein.
If any such person shall dare to break into the limits the guard shall seize him for punishment. If he be a foreigner, under whatever Consul, let him first be entreated to desist from such conduct. But if he persist, he shall be seized and delivered over to the Consul to whom he belongs. If he resist and a fight ensue, and he be wounded or killed, no damages shall be laid upon the guard by whom he was wounded, because he was duly warned not to go within those limits.
If the foreigner thus transgressing wound the guard or kill him, the Consul to whom he belongs shall adjudicate the case according to law.
And when the Kings are to appear publicly in any place, or when on other days their Majesties are to come down to their seats near the river, or to any other place, an officer whose business it is shall give a written notice to the Consuls a day or two beforehand, excepting the six days annually, when the Kings have their fireworks on the river. These are well known to the Consuls already without such notification.
Again,- if the Kings shall go to their country palaces in the Royal gardens, Annan-t'ha-oot'ha-yan and Sapra-t'hooma-wan, where guard limits are formed about those pala es, it is not necessary to notify the Consul of the time of such visitation, because those places are appropriated particularly to the Kings and there are no thoroughfares there.
LAWS CONCERNING FLOATING HOUSES AND BUOYS.
Mooring posts for Floating Houses.
Art. I.-It is forbidden that any owner of a floating house plant his mooring post so far beyond the front line of his float as to interfere with the passing of boats
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