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office, strictly conforming to the Regulations of the Harbour aforesaid, and obeying such orders and instructions as you may from time to time receive from me.

Given under my hand this

day of

in the year of our
Lord

at Government House,
at Auckland, New Zealand.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

REGULATIONS FOR THE HARBOUR OF AKAROA.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the Seventh day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-two. Present, His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by the Harbour Regulations Ordinance, No. XV. of Sess. 2, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make all such Regulations respecting Pilots and Pilotage, Quarantine and Harbours, as in the said Ordinance provided.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, doth hereby make the following Regulations for the Port and Harbour of Akaroa.

FORSTER GORING,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS FOR THE PORT OF AKAROA.

PILOT 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 40s.

4. The Master of any vessel employing any other than a duly licensed Pilot, if such shall have offered his services, shall forfeit double the amount of pilotage.

5. The Master of any vessel requiring a Pilot to conduct her to sea must make an application at the Harbour Master’s office 24 hours previously to sailing.

6. The rate of pilotage into or out of the Port of Akaroa, from or to the distance of one league from the Pilot Station, are as follows:—

Vessels under 200 tons, 4d. per ton register.
" 200 to 300 tons, 3½d. " "
" 300 to 400 tons, 3d. " "
" 400 to 600 tons, 2½d. " "
" 600 and upwards, 2d. " "

and 1d. per ton upon each occasion that a vessel is shifted from one part of the Harbour to another.

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

8. Pilots, on being appointed to outward-bound vessels, before taking charge, are to ascertain that their decks are clear, and that they are sufficiently manned, and in a proper state for working as regards masts, rigging, sails, anchors and boats.

9. Any Master who shall make a signal for a Pilot, or cause a Pilot to be sent for to take his vessel to sea, and shall not, within 12 hours from the time of the arrival of the Pilot on board such vessel, proceed to sea, shall pay a sum at the rate of £1 per day for every day such Pilot may be detained on board such vessel, in addition to the regular pilotage; and the Pilot shall not be compelled to conduct such vessel to sea until such additional payment and pilotage shall have been paid or satisfactorily secured.

10. Every Pilot detained on board a vessel longer than 48 hours, whether by stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise, is to be paid 8s. per day, in addition to the regular pilotage.

11. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty, to forfeit a sum not exceeding £20.

12. 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.

13. All vessels trading to or from the neighbouring colonies shall be exempted from taking a Pilot, upon paying half the usual rate of pilotage, whatever that may be. If a Pilot is taken, however, full pilotage is to be paid.

14. All vessels under 100 tons trading from or to the neighbouring colonies shall, upon the Master proving himself qualified, be furnished with a Certificate of Exemption from pilotage; but shall, in lieu thereof, pay one full pilotage inwards and outwards per annum.

15. Every Master so qualified, and not requiring a Pilot, shall, on approaching the Harbour within two leagues, hoist a white flag at the main, or forfeit a sum not exceeding full pilotage.

16. Every Master of every ship or vessel required to take a Pilot shall be furnished with a copy of the Harbour Regulations on her entry into port by the Boarding Pilot; and any Pilot failing to deliver such copy before leaving the vessel shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding £5.

17. To the Master of every vessel not required to take a Pilot, or, in the absence of the Master, to the principal 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 such vessel, unless demanded by such Master or officer, in which case only on the payment of a fee of 2s. 6d., to be accounted for amongst the other fees taken by the Harbour Master.

18. Every Master or other officer of a ship or vessel to whom a copy of the Harbour Regulations shall have been handed, shall give on demand an acknowledgment thereof to the Pilot or officer delivering such copy;