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clear hawse, when called upon by the Port
Master or Harbour Master, and are generally
to follow such directions as the state of the
weather or other circumstances may render
necessary or expedient in the judgment of the
Port Master, or Harbour Master, for the safety
and interest of the Shipping; and in default
thereof shall forfeit and pay any sum not ex-
ceeding £10.

5. All vessels, when it is so ordered by the
   Harbour Master or Pilot, are to have buoys
   and buoy-ropes to their anchors to show their
   position, and to hoist a conspicuous light at
   their peak-end from dark to daylight, and in
   default thereof the Master shall forfeit and pay
   a sum not exceeding £10.

6. No vessel shall be unmoored on Sunday
   from her anchorage, or from her berth along-
   side any Quay or Wharf, except the state of
   the weather or the safety of the vessel renders
   it necessary, without the express permission in
   writing from the Port Master or Harbour
   Master, under a penalty not exceeding £10.

7. All Masters of vessels exceeding two
   hundred tons register, shall cause a sufficient
   guard or watch to be kept on deck both by day
   and night. All other descriptions of decked
   vessels must have at least one person on board
   by day and night, and in default thereof shall
   be liable to a penalty of £10

8. Any anchor, kedge, or cable, slipped or
   cut from, if not weighed within 24 hours, may
   be weighed by order of the Harbour Master, or
   Pilot, at the risk and expense of the owner;
   and when no buoy-rope has been attached, the
   anchor, kedge, or cable shall be forfeited.

9. After a vessel has been unloaded and
   properly ballasted, it will be at the option of
   the Port Master or Harbour Master to remove
   her out clear of the Shipping, to make room
   for vessels requiring berths to unload; and if
   there shall not be on board any vessel which
   has been unloaded sufficient men or ballast, or
   requisite tackle, to enable her to be removed,
   the Port Master or the Harbour Master may
   remove such vessel at the expense and risk of
   the owner thereof.

10. Any person obstructing or impeding the
    navigation of any channel, river, inlet, or
    creek, or obstructing any public landing place,
    by placing a vessel, cable, boat, warp, or other
    article in the way, shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding £10; and, in case any person
    causing such obstruction or impediment will
    not remove, or cause to be removed, the same,
    when ordered by the Harbour Master, or Pilot,
    the Harbour Master, or Pilot, may cast off or
    cut such obstruction.

11. The owner, or part owner in, or the
    commander of, any vessel, or boat, which has
    been sunk, stranded, or run on, which has
    owner of any baulk of timber, or other bulky
    article which is in the water, who does not clear
    the harbour of such vessel or boat, or remove
    such baulk of timber, or other bulky article
    upon being required so to do by notice in
    writing under the hand of the Port Master, or
    Harbour Master, or any Justice of the Peace,
    within such reasonable time as may be men-
    tioned for that purpose in such notice, shall, for
    every such offence, forfeit a penalty not ex-
    ceeding £20; and any Justice, upon the com-
    plaint of the Port Master, or Harbour Master,
    or any other person, may issue his warrant for
    the clearing of the harbour, or the removing
    of such baulk of timber, or other bulky article,
    in such manner as such Justice shall direct,
    and for causing such vessel, or boat, baulk of
    timber, or other bulky article to be sold; and
    out of the money arising from such sale, may
    pay the charges of such clearing, or removal,
    as the case may be, paying the surplus to the
    Port Master, to be accounted for as fees col-
    lected by him.

12. Any person who makes any vessel, boat,
    timber, or other article fast to any buoy, beacon,
    or sea mark, and any Master or owner of a
    vessel being navigated without a Pilot
    on board, or the owner of any boat by which
    any such buoy, beacon, or sea mark is acci-
    dentally removed, injured, or destroyed, who
    does not forthwith make good such damage, or
    pay to the Harbour Master a sum sufficient to
    cover the expenses of so doing, shall, for every
    such offence, forfeit a penalty not exceeding
    £20.

13. Whenever a vessel not employed in
    coasting only arrives within the harbour, the
    Harbour Master shall appoint the place where
    she is to east anchor or be moored, and as often
    as the master of any vessel is desirous of re-
    moving her from one place of anchorage to
    another, he shall notify in writing such his
    desire to the Harbour Master, who shall there-
    upon, unless he sees sufficient reason to the
    contrary, direct the removal accordingly; and
    the Harbour Master may remove any vessel,
    timber, or any other article, from any berth,
    alongside any wharf or elsewhere, or from or
    to any part of the harbour, whenever such
    removal is in the opinion of the Harbour
    Master desirable and proper for the general
    accommodation of the shipping; and for any such
    service to be performed by such Harbour
    Master, there shall be paid by the master or
    owner of such vessel to such Harbour Master,
    the sum of 7s. 6d. for each vessel under 100
    tons register and for each other article, and a
    sum at the rate of 1d. per ton register for each
    vessel above 100 tons register, not exceeding
    £5 in the whole.

14. In the performance of any such service
    by the Harbour Master the Master of the
    vessel and the crew thereof are required to give
    and afford to such Harbour Master all possible
    aid, and in effecting any such service or any
    other service in the execution of his duty, the
    Harbour Master is empowered to make fast
    and coast, any rope or other tackle to any
    other vessel, and if there is no crew of the vessel
    to be removed or the crew thereof refuse or fail to
    aid and assist as aforesaid, or if the crew or
    tackle, or quantity of ballast on board of such
    vessel is not sufficient to enable the Harbour
    Master to effect such removal, he is empowered
    to hire and employ such other assistance and