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.

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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
    purpose by the pilot, or forfeit a sum not ex-
    ceeding five pounds.

12. The master of every vessel shall anchor
    and moor where the Harbour-Master or Pilot
    may direct, and he shall not unmoor or
    quit the anchorage until notice be given in writ-
    ing at the Harbour, Master's office, or forfeit a
    sum not exceeding five pounds.

13. The master of every vessel arriving at
    any harbour within the colony which shall be
    deemed by the harbour master to be liable to
    quarantine, shall, on being directed, anchor in
    the quarantine ground appointed for such har-
    bour, or forfeit a sum not exceeding one hun-
    dred pounds.

14. The master of every vessel so anchored
    shall neither himself quit, nor permit any seaman,
    passenger or other person to quit the same, until
    he shall have been duly admitted to pratique, or
    forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds.

15. The master of every vessel shall give
    notice at the post office, at least twenty-four
    hours before clearing at the Custom House; ex-
    cept masters of coasters, who are exempted from
    this regulation, unless when bound from one
    port of entry to another, or forfeit a sum not
    exceeding ten pounds.

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 in 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.

GUNPOWDER.

16. The master of every vessel arriving with
    gunpowder on board exceeding the quantity
    necessary as ships stores, shall give immediate
    notice thereof to the pilot on his boarding the
    vessel, and shall land the same at the powder
    magazine before anchoring at the usual anchorage
    ground, or forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty
    pounds.

17. No gunpowder is to be either received or
    issued by the keeper of the magazine, except
    between the hours of seven in the morning and
    five in the afternoon.

18. The master of every vessel shall cause all
    gunpowder to be conveyed to the magazine im-
    mediately after its being landed, or forfeit a sum
    not exceeding ten pounds.

19. All gunpowder so landed to be packed in
    barrels, containing not more than one hundred
    weight each, closely joined and hooped without
    any iron about the packages, and so secured
    that no portion of the gunpowder be in danger of
    being scattered in the passage, under a penalty
    of any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

20. Previous to the delivery of any gunpow-
    der so stored, fees as per schedule B shall be first
    paid.