AUCKLAND HARBOUR BYE-LAWS.

WHEREAS, by an Act made and passed by the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, No. 2 of Session No. 1. It was enacted, that the Harbour Committee, to be elected by Commissioners appointed under the said Act, should have power from time to time, to make Bye-laws, for the goodorder, government, cleanliness, convenience and management of the Harbour of Auckland, and of any Docks and Piers, already or to be thereafter constructed therein. Be it therefore ordained and declared by the Auckland Harbour Committee as follows:—

HARBOURS.

1. No rubbish or filth is to be landed on any lands, not being private property, except in such places as the Harbour Master, or other duly appointed person, may point out, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

2. No anchor shall be allowed to remain under water, in any part of the Harbour without a buoy attached thereto, under penalty of 20s. for each day, any anchor shall be so left, to be paid, by the party leaving the same, and if any anchor shall be found unattached to any vessel, such anchor may be lifted by order of the Harbour Committee or Harbour Master, and if not claimed within one month, after a description of the same shall have been published in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette, the same may be sold to defray the charges and expenses thereon, unless the same shall have been accidentally lost, and information thereof left in writing, at the office of the Harbour Committee.

3. No Ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, or filth is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat, but is to be landed at any place the Harbour Master or other person, duly authorised by the Harbour Committee to give such directions, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

4. Any person removing, wilfully injuring or destroying any buoy, beacon, or sea-mark, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

5. Any person throwing a dead animal into the Harbour, (within the limits of the anchorage,) without attaching thereto sufficient weight to sink it, is liable to a penalty of not more than twenty shillings.

6. Vessels, unless specially permitted in writing, by the Harbour Committee, are prohibited from firing guns between the hours of sunset and sunrise, and on the Sabbath (except in case of distress) under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

7. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells, or any part of the soil, below high water mark, without permission from the Harbour Master, or from some other person, authorised by the Harbour Committee to give such permission, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

Note.—The Passenger Act 5 and 6 Victoria, cap 107, has been extended to this colony by Proclamation the 29th day of June, 1849.

Gunpowder.

8. The master of every vessel arriving with Gunpowder on board, exceeding the quantity necessary as ship’s stores, shall give immediate notice thereof to the Pilot, on his boarding the vessel, and shall land the same at the Powder Magazine, before anchoring at the usual anchorage ground, or forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

9. No Gunpowder is to be either received or issued by the keeper of the Magazine, except between the hours of seven in the morning and five in the afternoon.

10. The Master of every vessel shall cause all Gunpowder to be conveyed to the Magazine immediately after its being landed, or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

11. All Gunpowder so landed, to be packed in barrels, containing not more than one hundred weight each, closely joined and hooped, without any iron about the packages, and so secured, that no portion of the Gunpowder be in danger of being scattered in the passage, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

Note.—The principal Officer of Customs and Harbour Masters at different ports, are specially authorised, in accordance with the provisions of the “Arms Importation Ordinance,” Session 6, No. 1, to permit the landing of powder, by masters of vessels.

Wharves.

12. No goods of any description nor any baggage shall be landed on the Wynyard Pier, in Official Bay (except such, as may from time to time be allowed, according to public notice) and no carts of any description shall be allowed thereon. Any person committing a breach of this Regulation, shall be liable to a penalty for each offence, not exceeding thirty shillings.

13. No goods shall be landed or borne for shipment, on any wharf or pier under the charge or care of the Harbour Committee, (except as hereafter mentioned) without permission having been first obtained, from some person duly authorised by the said Committee to grant the same; and any person offending against this regulation, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds.

14. Persons having charge of boats of any description, or of goods or baggage, and all passengers, shall use only such portions of any wharf or pier, as shall by public notice thereof, to be given by the Harbour Committee, be set apart for that purpose, and any person offending against this regulation, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding two pounds.

15. The Harbour Committee or the Commissioners, or any person or persons in their employment...