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and any person offending against this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

5. After a vessel has been unloaded and properly ballasted, it will be at the option of the Harbour Master to moor her out clear of the shipping to make room for vessels requiring berths to unload.

6. In the performance of any such service by the Harbour Master or his deputy, the master of the vessel and the crew thereof are required to give and afford to such Harbour Master or deputy all possible aid and assistance to effect the same; and in effecting any such service, or any other service in the execution of his duty, the Harbour Master or his deputy is empowered to make fast and attach any rope or other tackle to any other vessel, and if there is no crew on board of the vessel to be moved, 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 such vessel is not sufficient to enable the Harbour Master or his deputy to effect such removal, he is empowered to hire and employ such other assistance and tackle, and to purchase and put on board such vessel such other quantity of ballast as to him seems requisite at the cost or charges of the master or owner of such vessel, and such cost and charges such master or owner is required to pay to the Harbour Master or his deputy, to be accounted for to the proper authorities; and if any person without the consent or authority of the Harbour Master or his deputy, 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.

7. The Harbour Master, or any deputy of the Harbour Master, is empowered to take such means and to give such orders and directions as he may deem necessary for the purpose of preventing risk or accident, confusion or over-crowding of boats alongside of vessels, and any person wilfully disobeying any orders so given as aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

8. Any person obstructing or impeding the navigation of any channel, river, inlet, or creek, or obstructing any landing place, by placing a vessel, cable, boat, warp, or other article in the way, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; 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, or any other lawfully appointed officer of the port, the Harbour Master or Pilot may remove, cast off, or cut any such obstruction.

9. It shall be competent for the Harbour Master or a person deputed by him to order that any ship, lighter, boat, or timber be removed from any berth alongside any wharf, or from any anchorage to any part of the harbour, wherever such removal shall in his opinion, for the general accommodation of the shipping, be proper. And any person who shall fail to obey such order, or otherwise offend against this Regulation, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

10. The owner or part owner in, or the commander of, any vessel or boat which has been sunk, stranded, or run on shore, or the 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 baulks of timber or other bulky article, on being required so to do by notice in writing under the hand of the Harbour Master or other officer of the port, or of any Justice of the Peace, within such reasonable time as may be mentioned for the purpose in such notice, will for every such offence be liable to be proceeded against under the provisions of “The Marine Act, 1866.”

11. The person against whom any penalty shall be recovered under the last preceding or under this Regulation shall, within such further time as shall be specified by the Court awarding such penalty, remove the vessel or boat, or baulk of timber, or other bulky article in respect of which such penalty shall have been incurred. Breach of this regulation will render the person offending liable to a further penalty under the said Act.

12. 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.

13. No rubbish or filth is to be landed or deposited 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 the person landing or depositing such rubbish or filth.

14. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones, earthenware, glass, or filth is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat within the harbour, 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.