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21. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, or filth, is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat, but is to be landed at any place the Harbour Master may direct, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

22. Any person removing, wilfully injuring or destroying, any Buoy, Beacon, or Sea Mark, shall forfeit the sum of Twenty Pounds.

23. Any person throwing a dead animal into the Harbour (within the limits of the anchorage), without attaching to it sufficient weight, to sink it, is liable to a penalty of not more than Twenty nor less than Five Shillings.

24. Vessels are prohibited from firing guns between the hours of sunset and sunrise, and on the Sabbath, except in case of distress, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding Five Pounds.

25. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells, or any part of the soil below high water mark, from any lands belonging to the Crown, without permission from the Harbour Master, or, in the absence of the Harbour Master, the Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Ten 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, and 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.

28. The Passengers\' Act, 5 and 6 Victoria, cap. 107, has been extended to this colony by proclamation, dated the 29th day of June, 1849.

POWER TO RESIDENT MAGISTRATE IN CERTAIN CASES.

The Resident Magistrate, at any port for which no Harbour Master is appointed, shall have all such powers as are hereinbefore given to Harbour Masters. All penalties hereby imposed shall be recoverable in a summary way.

SCHEDULE A.

Questions required to be answered by the Master or other Person in command of any Ship or Vessel arriving in the Port of _____ from any infected place :—

1. What is the name of the vessel and tonnage?
   Answer.

2. What is the Master\'s name, and are you the Master?
   Answer.

3. From whence do you come, and when did you sail?
   Answer.

4. At what ports have you touched on your passage?
   Answer.

5. What vessels have you had intercourse or communication with on your passage, and from whence did they come?
   Answer.

6. Have you any and what Bills of Health?
   Answer.

7. Did the Cholera or any other highly infectious and dangerous disease prevail at the place from which you sailed, or at any of the places at which you have touched, or on board of any vessel with which you have had communication? If so, state when and where?
   Answer.

8. In the course of your voyage, have any persons on board suffered from sickness of any kind, what was the nature of such sickness, and when did it prevail? How many persons were affected by it, and have any of them died in the course of the voyage?
   Answer.