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 authorized, in accordance with the provisions of the Arms Importation Ordinance, Session 6, No. 1, to permit the landing of Powder by Masters of vessels.

THE HARBOUR.

19. No rubbish or filth is to be landed on any lands belonging to the Crown, except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

20. No timber or any bulky article is to be left on any Public Wharf or landing place, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

21. 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 may direct, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

22. Any person removing, wilfully injuring, or destroying any Buoy, Beacon, or Sea Mark, shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

23. Any person throwing a dead animal into the Harbour, (within the limits of the anchorage) without attaching to it sufficient weight to sink it, is liable to a penalty of not more than twenty nor less than five shillings.

24. Vessels 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.

25. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells, or any part of the soil below high water mark without permission from the Harbour Master, or in the absence of the same, the Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

26. To the Master of every vessel not required to take a Pilot, or in the absence of the Master to the principle Officer on board, a copy of the Harbour Regulations shall be delivered by the Harbour Master, provided, however, that it shall not be necessary in any case to issue a second copy of the Regulations to the Master or Officer in charge of the same vessel, unless on demand of such Master or Officer, and in such case only on the payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence, to be accounted for as other fees collected by the Harbour Master.

27. Every Master or other Officer of a ship or vessel to whom a copy of the Harbour Regulations shall have been delivered shall give on demand an acknowledgment thereof, to the Pilot or other Officer delivering the said copy, and any Pilot failing to demand, or any Master of a ship or vessel refusing on demand to give such acknowledgment shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than five pounds.

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

QUARANTINE.

29. The Master of every vessel arriving at any Harbour within the Province of Auckland which shall be deemed by the Harbour Master to be liable to quarantine, shall, on being directed so to do by such Harbour Master, cause the same to be anchored in the Quarantine ground appointed for the Harbour or forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of one hundred pounds.

30. The Master of every vessel so anchored shall neither himself quit, or permit any seamen, passenger, or other person to quit the same,—until he shall have been duly admitted to pratique, or forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.

31. Every seamen, passenger, or other person so quitting, shall, for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

32. Every vessel so anchored is to hoist a yellow flag, of not less than six breadths of Bunting, at the Main by day, and a light by night in a Lantern, such as are used in Her Majesty’s Navy, and to keep the same respectively hoisted until released from quarantine, or forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

33. The master of every vessel so anchored is to deliver to the Harbour Master, or other authorised person, his Bill of Health, Manifest, Log-book and Journal, and he is to fill out a Report in the form and manner pointed up in the Schedule A. annexed.

34. The Master of every vessel so anchored who shall suffer any goods, wares, or merchandize, packets, books, letters, or other articles to be unshipped or landed, and any person or persons who shall be concerned in the unshipping or landing of the same, shall forfeit for each and every article so unshipped or landed, the sum of twenty pounds.

35. Every person or persons who shall knowingly receive any goods, wares, or merchandize, packets, packages, baggage, books, or letters, or any other article whatever, from any vessel so anchored, shall forfeit, for each and every article the sum of twenty pounds.

36. Any person going within the limits of any Quarantine Station, when any vessel shall be there at anchor, performing Quarantine, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

37. If any officer or person entrusted with orders respecting Quarantine, shall in any way neglect his duty, he shall forfeit for each offence the sum twenty pounds.

38. The Harbour Master shall, immediately after his having so anchored any vessel, report the same to the Resident Magistrate and Health Officer, or to the person or persons acting, or appointed to act for those functionaries.

39. The Resident Magistrate and Health Officer, or Medical Practitioner appointed for