(166)

NOTICE TO PUBLICANS AND OTHERS.

Colonial Treasury,
Auckland, 11th June, 1842,

NOTICE is hereby given, that all persons
holding a Magistrate's Certificate entitling
them to receive a License for the Sale of Spirit-
uous and other fermented Liquors, by Retail,
for the year commencing the 1st of July, proximo,
are required to make application at this Office,
on or before the 30th instant, for such License,
after which date the Certificate becomes null
and void. Parties residing at the Bay of Is'ands
will have their Licenses transmitted to them on
the receipt in this Office of the Certificate, ac-
companied by the requisite Fee.

A. SHEPHERD,
Colonial Treasurer.

HARBOUR AND QUARANTINE REGU-
LATIONS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 13th June, 1842.

WHEREAS, by virtue of an Ordinance, Ses-
sion 2, No.15, His Excellency the Gover-
nor with the advice of the Executive Council, is em-
powered to make such regulations respecting the
examination and licensing of pilots, the amount
and payment of pilotage, the class of vessels
which shall be bound to take pilots and res-
pecting all other matters and things connected
therewith, as shall be deemed necessary for
securing the good conduct of pilots, and the
efficiency of the pilot service. And whereas,
by the said ordinance, His Excellency the
Governor in Council is authorised to make regu-
lations respecting the placing of vessels in quar-
antine and the performance of such quarantine,
and to appoint officers for carrying such regula-
tions into effect, and also from time to time to
appoint by Proclamation, stations or places for
the performance of quarantine, by such vessels
bound to the several harbours of the Colony as
may be liable thereto, and to construct and main-
tain lazarettes, and take all such measures as may
be necessary for securing the due performance of
such quarantine, and also to make regulations
respecting the anchoring and mooring of vesse's,
the packages, landing deposit and removal of
gunpowder, the erection of magazines for the
safe keeping thereof, and the rent to be charged
for the same; and also for the watering, ballasting,
and discharging of ballast of or from vessels, and
all other matters relating to the safe and com-
modious navigation of harbours or rivers, and
the order and management of vessels resort-
ing thereto, Now therefore, in pursuance of the
power in him vested under the said ordinance,
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of

the Executive Council, directs that the following
regulations be published for general information.

By His Excellency's command,

WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

PILOTS.

1. No person shall be deemed a pilot unless he
   be duly licensed by his Excellency the Governor.

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

3. Every pilot shall carry his license with him
   and shall produce it to the captain of any vessel
   on its being demanded, or forfeit a sum not ex-
   ceeding forty shillings.

4. The rates of pilotage into or out of any
   of the harbours within this Colony, from, or to
   the distance of one league from the respective
   pilot stations, shall be those specified iu schedule
   A hereunto annexed; but no pilotage is to be
   chargeable on any vessel engaged in the colonial
   coasting trade, unless the assistance of a pilot be
   required by the commander of the vessel.

5. Pilots are not bound to conduct any vessel
   to sea, until payment of the pilotage has been
   satisfactorily secured.

6. Any pilot detained on board a vessel longer
   than forty-eight hours, whether by stress of
   weather, quarantine, or otherwise, is to be paid
   eight shillings per diem in addition to the regular
   pilotage.

7. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty to
   forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

MASTERS OF VESSELS.

8. The master of every vessel (except as here-
   inafter mentioned) arriving from beyond the
   seas, and not being a coasting vessel, is to place
   her in charge of the first licensed pilot who may
   come alongside, and he is not to enter the harbour
   or proceed to sea without having such pilot on
   board, under penalty of a fine not exceeding the
   amount of pilotage set forth in schedule A, to
   which he would have been liable had he taken a
   pilot.

9. Every person who shall more than once
   have entered the harbour as master of a vessel,
   may, on being found qualified, on application to
   the harbour master, be supplied with a cer-
   tificate of exemption from pilotage.

10. Every master who shall enter the harbour
    having in his possession such certificate, and
    who shall hoist at the main a blue and white
    flag, shall be exempted from the necessity of
    taking a pilot.

11. The master of every vessel shall hoist
    such signals as may be tendered to him for that