XXIX. The Superintendent of each Province is hereby empowered and required to perform the general functions and duties following

To define for the purposes of this Act the limit of any Port within the Province

To superintend and maintain harbour-marks buoys lights and beacons now or hereafter to be erected or placed

To license Boatmen plying for hire in any Port and fix the Fees to be paid for such Licences and also the Penalties on persons plying for hire without being licensed to regulate the Fares to be charged by Licensed Watermen plying for hire within the Ports in the province to fix places at which Licensed Watermen shall ply and otherwise regulate their conduct and proceedings and to regulate and control steam or other Ferry-boats plying for hire at wharves or public thoroughfares

If necessary to license Tugs for conducting vessels into and out of Port and to fix the Fees to be paid for such Licences

To appoint and suspend Harbour-Masters who shall be removable by the Marine Board and to appoint suspend and remove other Officers of the Port

To regulate the berthing of vessels at wharves and in docks and the mooring unmooring and removal of vessels and the number of days during which a vessel shall be permitted to occupy any berth and to fix and determine the depth of water to which vessels in any dock may be loaded whilst in such dock

To license ballast-boats and tank-boats and as far as possible to regulate the supply of ballast and water to the shipping

To regulate the duties and conduct of the Harbour-Masters and other persons employed and acting in carrying out and effectuating the several objects of this Act within any Port the limits to which the powers and duties of Harbour-Master shall extend and the mode in which Masters of vessels shall apply for and obtain the services of the Harbour-Masters

To carry out and enforce all Harbour and Quarantine Regulations which shall be lawfully in force within the Port

To make and enforce rules in cases where such shall not have already been provided by law for the convenience of persons walking upon or landing on or embarking from any wharf for regulating the shipping or landing of goods merchandise or other commodities at or from any dock or wharf the nature of the goods merchandise or other commodities which may or may not be shipped or landed and the mode and time of shipping and landing the same for the cleansing repair and effectual preservation of docks and wharves for the governing and regulation of porters carters carmen and others carrying goods or using or driving horses waggons carts drays trucks or other carriages for conveying passengers goods merchandise or other commodities to or from docks or wharves for the convenience of persons using or resorting to the same and otherwise generally for the better governance regulation and management safety and protection of the ports dock wharves and shipping as to such Superintendent may seem necessary or desirable.

XXX. All buoys beacons and sea-marks within any Port shall be vested in the Superintendent of the Province within which the same shall be situate.

XXXII. It shall not be lawful for any person to commence or undertake the construction of any new or additional wharf quay dock pier or other harbour work in any Port until he shall have laid before the Superintendent of the Province within which such Port is situate detailed plans and specifications of such proposed work nor until the same shall have been approved of by the Superintendent and notice in writing of such approval shall have been given to such person accordingly And no works executed with such approval shall render any person liable for indictment for nuisance or perperture Provided always that nothing in this Act contained shall be held to interfere with any rights or privileges of water frontage or any other rights or privileges of any person or persons in to or over any lands reclaimed or to be reclaimed from the sea.

XXXVIII. The Marine Board and the Superintendent of each Province are respectively hereby empowered from time to time to make publish alter modify amend or repeal such Bye-Laws as to them respectively shall seem meet for carrying into effect and enforcing the general powers and duties hereinbefore vested in and imposed on the said Board and Superintendent respectively and also all other matters and things whatsoever which the said Board or Superintendent is authorised to do or cause to be done under this Act and for the collection of all dues and sums of money payable to such Board or Provincial Treasurer for the purposes of this Act and to appoint by such Bye-Laws such penalties as are deemed necessary for enforcing the same Provided that no such penalty shall exceed the sum of Fifty Pounds and no such Bye-Law shall have any effect unless the same shall have been submitted to and approved of by the Governor in Council and shall have been published in the Government Gazette of the