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Provincial Secretary's Office,
Nelson, September 8, 1856.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to
be notified, for general information,
that, pursuant to the provisions of the second
and third clauses of the Waste Lands Act,
1856, he has been pleased provisionally to
appoint

ALFRED DOMETT, ESQUIRE,
to perform and execute all the powers, duties,
and functions of a Commissioner of Crown
Lands for the Province of Nelson, and to
execute the several acts, matters, or things
authorized or required to be done by or in re-
lation to any such Commissioner of Crown
Lands within the said province.
By his Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Nelson, September 8, 1856.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs that
the following Harbour Regulations for
the Province of Nelson, approved by his Ex-
cellency the Governor in Council, be published
for general information.
By his Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER,
Provincial Secretary.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

PROVINCE OF NELSON.

PILOTS AND MASTERS OF VESSELS.

1. No person shall be deemed a Pilot unless
   he be duly licensed by his Excellency the
   Governor, or by his Honor the Superin-
   tendent.

2. All persons so licensed shall be provided
   with a License, according to the Form hereto
   annexed.

3. Every Pilot shall carry his License with
   him, and shall produce it to the Master of any
   ship or vessel, on its being demanded, or for-
   feit a sum not exceeding Forty Shillings.

4. Pilots are not bound to conduct any
   vessel to sea until payment of the pilotage has
   been paid at the Harbour Office.

5. Every Pilot detained on board a vessel
   longer than forty-eight hours, whether by
   stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise, is
   to be paid Fifteen Shillings per day, in addition
   to the regular pilotage.

6. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty,
   to forfeit a sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

7. The Master of every vessel shall anchor
   or moor where the Harbour Master or Pilot
   may direct, and he shall not unmoor or quit
   the anchorage until notice be given in writing
   at the Harbour Master's Office, or forfeit a
   sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

PILOTAGE.

8. Every vessel entering any harbour in the
   Province of Nelson, where a Pilot is stationed,
   excepting Coasters belonging to New Zealand,
   and Mail Packets or others (regular traders,
   which may be provided with a certificate of
   exemption from the Governor of the colony,
   or from the Superintendent of the province),
   shall be placed in charge of the first duly
   licensed Pilot who may offer his services; and
   Masters of vessels neglecting to heave to and
   take the Pilot on board, or refusing to accept
   of his services when offered, shall be liable to
   double the amount of pilotage.

9. When a Pilot offers his services outside
   t outside
   the Bar, he shall be entitled to the full amount
   of pilotage after the vessel is safely anchored
   in the Harbour.

10. When the services of a Pilot are re-
    quired to move a vessel from one inside anchor-
    age to another, not being at first entrance, or
    for the purpose of final departure, he shall be
    entitled to a fee of £1.

11. Any Pilot detained on board a vessel
    longer than forty-eight hours, whether by
    stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise,
    shall be entitled to Fifteen Shillings per diem,
    in addition to the regular pilotage. Rate of
    full pilotage the same as at Nelson Harbour,
    viz., Five Shillings per foot in the Harbour,
    and Two Shillings per foot in any outer Road-
    stead.

12. Vessels provided with any certificates of
    exemption shall carry a "Blue Peter" at the
    main, without any flag at the fore; and
    Masters of such vessels neglecting this pre-
    caution, shall be liable to the same amount of
    pilotage as other vessels, when the services of
    a Pilot are tendered.

13. Masters of vessels requiring the services
    of a Pilot are to give notice at the Harbour
    Office twelve hours previous to the time of de-
    parture; and any master who shall make a
    signal for a Pilot to take his vessel to sea, and
    shall not, within twelve hours of the arrival of
    the Pilot on board such vessel proceed to sea,
    shall forfeit and pay a sum at the rate of £1
    per day for every day such Pilot may be de-
    tained on board such vessel, in addition to the
    regular pilotage, and the Pilot shall not be
    compelled to take such vessel to sea until such
    forfeiture and pilotage shall have been satis-
    factorily secured.

14. The Harbour Master or Pilot, while re-
    moving any vessel from one anchorage to
    another, may make her fast to any other
    vessel, or to any warp or wharf; and any
    person resisting the same, or cutting away or