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or owner of such vessel, and such cost and charges such master or owner is required to pay to the harbor-master to be accounted for as aforesaid; and if any person without the consent or authority of the harbour-master, cuts or casts off any such rope or tackle, so made fast and attached to any other vessel as aforesaid, or in any other manner infringes this regulation, such person shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

21. All vessels must unshot their guns immediately after entering any port or harbour, and no guns or firearms are to be discharged, or blue-lights, rockets, or other combustibles, burned or discharged from any ship, vessel, or boat (except from mail steamers announcing their arrival or departure) unless permission in writing has been obtained from the harbour-master, except only, when urgent assistance is required, under a penalty of Five Pounds.

22. All ships and vessels under 400 tons, at anchor, are required to be provided with fire-buckets in the proportion of four to every hundred tons, and two for every additional hundred tons, one half of which are to be constantly hung up in some convenient place, with lanyards attached, ready for drawing water.

23. In the event of the death of any person on board of any vessel in port, the master of such vessel is to cause the body to be buried on shore, previously reporting the particulars to the Police.

24. The Master, or person in charge of any ship or vessel, with the undermentioned exceptions, shall at all times in port, as well by day as by night, have at least one seaman in charge of the deck of such ship or vessel; and the person having such charge, and all persons having the charge of or being on board of any boat within any port, shall answer to the challenge of the water police, or other duly authorised public officer. Vessels laid up, coal hulks, ballast or other lighters, lying in such limits as the harbour-master may authorise them to occupy, are exempt from the foregoing regulation.

25. Masters requiring to careen, heave down, or haul their vessels on shore for the purpose of inspection, or repairs, must apply to the harbour-master of the port for permission, except when such work is proposed to be done on private property.

26. Accidents involving personal injury, loss of life or property from loss or collision of vessels or boats, are to be reported in writing by the person in charge to the nearest harbour-master and principal officer of Customs as soon as possible.

27. All masters, pilots, or other persons in charge of vessels, are immediately to strike their top-gallant yards and masts, to have their jib, spanker, and all other booms rigged close in, top up, and brace fore and aft all yards, and moor and clear hawse when called upon by the harbour-master, or person deputed by him, and are generally to follow such directions as the weather, the crowded condition of the Port, or other circumstances may render necessary or expedient in the judgment of the harbour-master with a view to the safety and interest of the whole shipping.

28. 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 Five Pounds, to be paid by any person landing such rubbish or filth.

29. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones, earthenware, glass, or filth is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat, but is to be landed and placed where the harbour-master may direct; and no gravel, earth, stones, earthenware, glass-bottles, filth, or rubbish is to be placed by any other means at any place below the high-water mark within the harbour; and proper tarpaulins are to be used in discharging or taking in ballast, coals, rubbish, gravel, earth, or filth of any kind, so as to prevent any part thereof falling into the harbour; and any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

30. No pitch, tar, resin, or other combustible matter shall be lighted or heated on board of any vessel or boat while lying alongside or near any vessel in the harbour; and any person who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

31. No wreck is to be left in any part of the harbour, but must be conveyed on shore above high-water mark; and if any wreck is so left, the owner thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

32. Any person throwing a dead animal into the harbour, or placing any dead animal below high-water mark, within the limits of the anchorage, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, and an additional penalty of One Pound for every day during which any such animal remains in the harbour, or below high-water mark, or buried on the beach above high-water mark. Provided that no such penalty and additional penalty shall together exceed the sum of Twenty Pounds.

33. No ballast, shingle, stone, or shells or any part of the soil shall be removed from any land of the Crown without the permission of the harbour-master, under a penalty of Five Pounds.

Gunpowder.

34. 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 if none, to the harbour-master, and shall land the same at the powder magazine before anchoring at the usual anchorage ground.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. All gunpowder so landed must be packed in barrels, containing not more than...