Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 25

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✨ Harbor and Quarantine Regulations



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature
are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s command,

JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. II.] MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1855. [No. XXV.

(Published by Authority)

THE

Harbor and Quarantine Regulations

FOR THE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY,

NEW ZEALAND.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 19th October, 1855.

The following Harbor and Quarantine Regulations were in accordance with the Provisions of the Harbor Regulations, Session 2, No. 15, approved by His Excellency the Governor in Council, 19th October, 1855.

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

HARBOUR AND QUARANTINE

REGULATIONS.

PILOTS AND MASTERS OF VESSELS.

  1. No person shall be deemed a Pilot unless he be duly Licensed by His Excellency the Governor.

  2. All persons so Licensed shall be provided with a License according to the Form hereto annexed.

  3. Every Pilot shall carry his License with him, and shall produce it to the Master of any ship or vessel on its being demanded, or forfeit a sum not exceeding Forty Shillings.

  4. The rate of Pilotage into or out of Port Victoria, from or to the distance of one league from the Pilot Station is Three Shillings per foot draught of water; but no Pilotage is to be chargeable on any vessel engaged in the Coasting trade, unless the assistance of a Pilot be required by the Master of the vessel.

  5. Pilots are not bound to conduct any vessel to sea until payment of the Pilotage has been satisfactorily secured.

  6. Every Pilot detained on board a vessel longer than forty-eight hours, whether by stress of weather, Quarantine, or otherwise, is to be paid 8s. per day in addition to the regular Pilotage.

  7. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

  8. The Master of every vessel (except as hereinafter mentioned) arriving from beyond seas, and not being a coasting vessel, shall pay the full amount of Pilotage, whether taking a Pilot or not.

  9. All vessels trading to or from the neighbouring Colonies shall be exempted from taking a Pilot upon paying at the rate of one shilling and sixpence per foot, or half the usual rate of Pilotage, whatever that may be. If a Pilot is taken, however, full Pilotage to be paid.

  10. All vessels under 100 tons, trading from or to the neighbouring Colonies...



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🏛️ Harbor and Quarantine Regulations for the Province of Canterbury

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
19 October 1855
Regulations, Pilots, Masters of Vessels, Quarantine, Harbor
  • Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary