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ous light at their peak end, from dark to daylight, or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

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

18. No person shall interfere with the Harbour-master or any Pilot in the execution of his duty, resist, obstruct, or impede him in the performance thereof, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

19. All Pilots are required to obey the lawful commands of the Harbour-master, and any Pilot not so doing shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and be suspended from his duties until the Governor’s commands are known.

20. Should the Harbour-master think it necessary to supersede any Pilot in charge of any vessel either inward or outward bound, he shall have the option of doing so, and may appoint any other duly licensed pilot to take charge of the vessel he may think fit.

21. The master of every vessel (except as hereinafter mentioned) arriving beyond seas, and not being a coasting vessel, shall pay the full amount of pilotage whether taking a pilot or not.

22. All vessels trading to or from the Colonies, shall be exempt from taking a pilot, upon paying one-half the usual rate of pilotage, whatever that may be; if a pilot is taken however full pilotage to be paid.

23. All vessels under 100 tons trading 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.

24. Every master so qualified and exempt, shall on approaching the harbour within two leagues hoist a red flag at the main, showing his exemption, or forfeit a sum not exceeding the full pilotage.

25. 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 five pounds.

26. 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 the same vessel, unless on demand of such master or officer, and in such case only on the payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence to be accounted for as other fees collected by the Harbour-master.

27. Every master or other officer of a ship or vessel to whom a copy of the Harbour Regulations shall have been delivered, shall give on demand an acknowledgment thereof to the pilot or other officer delivering the said copy, and any pilot failing to demand, or any master of a ship or vessel refusing on demand to give such acknowledgment shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than five pounds.

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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 any sum not exceeding five pounds.

29. No timber or any bulky articles is to be left on any public wharf or any landing place, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds; and any such timber or articles still remaining on any public wharf or landing place, seven days after due notice has been given by the Harbour-master shall be removed by him at the owner’s expense.

30. No Ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, filth or glass, is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat, or otherwise, but is to be landed at any place the Harbour-master may direct, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

31. Any person removing, wilfully injuring, or destroying, any buoy, beacon, or sea mark shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

32. Any person making fast any vessel or boat to any buoy, beacon, or sea mark, without the sanction of the Harbour-Master shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds.

33. Any person throwing a dead animal into the Harbour (within the