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THE HARBOUR.

21. 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.
22. No timber or bulky article is to be left
    on any public wharf or landing place under a
    penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.
23. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone,
    or filth, is to be thrown overboard from any ves-
    sel or boat, but is to be landed at such places as
    the harbour master may direct, under a penalty
    of any sum not exeeeding twenty pounds.
24. Any person removing, wilfully injuring or
    destroying any buoy, beacon, or sea mark, shall
    forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
25. Vessels are prohibited from firing guns
    between the hours of sunset and sunrise and on
    the sabbath, (except in case of distress) under the
    penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.
26. Any person removing any shingle, stone,
    shells, or any part of the soil, without permis-
    sion from the Harbour-Master, and in the ab-
    sence of the Harbour-Master from the Police
    Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
    ten pounds.

CUSTOMS.

27. All persons employed in the Customs, are to
    be deemed officers for such service.

28. Every vessel arriving from beyond seas, is
    to be boarded as soon as circumstances will allow
    by an officer of the Customs, who will deliver to
    the master a copy of the harbour regulations, and
    to whom the master is to furnish such particulars
    of his voyage, crew, and passengers, and to de-
    liver such documents respecting the same as
    may be required of him, under a penalty of a
    sum not exceeding five pounds.

29. Every master refusing or neglecting to bring
    to at any station appointed for the boarding of
    the Customs officer, shall forfeit a sum of not
    less than ten pounds, or not more than one hun-
    dred pounds. (4th Vic., No. 3.)

30. Every master of any vessel is also to deliver
    to the Custom-house officer, or other authorized
    person, all public dispatches, letters, parcels,
    and all Post-office mails and letters, whether in
    parcels or loose, obtaining a receipt for the same;
    and, repairing to the Post-office, he is there to
    make a declaration, as per Schedule C., of his
    having duly delivered up all letters, as before-
    mentioned, and is to produce the said declara-
    tion at the Custom-house, before making his
    report at these places, under a penalty of any
    sum not exceeding five pounds.

31. Masters are to report to the Custom-house
    within twenty-four hours, their vessel and cargo,
    under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five
    pounds.

32. Officers of the Customs may be stationed on
    board any vessel whilst within the limits of the
    port.

33. If goods be not landed in twenty days, the
    officers may land and secure the same.

34. Goods to be carried coastwise must not be
    laden, and having been brought coastwise must
    not be unladen, until written notice has been
    given to the proper officer, and proper docu-
    ments granted, under a penalty of any sum not
    exceeding twenty pounds.

35. The vessels to be considered as engaged in the
    coasting or colonial trade, are those trading from
    one part of the Colony to another, or with any
    of the South Sea Islands, on which there are no
    public settlements; also all vessels employed in
    the whale, seal, or sea elephant fisheries.

QUARANTINE.

36. 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 so to do by
    such Harbour-Master, cause the same to be an-
    chored in the quarantine ground appointed for
    the harbour, or forfeit and pay for every such
    offence, the sum of one hundred pounds.
37. The master of every vessel so anchored,
    shall neither himself quit, or permit any seaman,
    passenger, or other person to quit the same,
    until he shall have been duly admitted to pra-
    tique, or forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.
38. Every seaman, passenger, or other person
    so quitting, shall, for every such offence, forfeit
    the sum of twenty pounds.
39. Every vessel so anchored is to hoist a
    yellow flag, of not less than six breadths of
    bunting at the main, by day, and a light by
    night in a lanthorn, such as are used in Her
    Majesty's Navy, and to keep the same respec-
    tively hoisted until released from quarantine, or
    forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
40. The master of every vessel so anchored, is
    to deliver to the Harbour-Master, or other au-
    thorized person, his bill of health, manifest, log
    book, and journal, and he is to fill up a report
    in the form and manner pointed out in the
    Schedule C. annexed.
41. The master of every vessel so anchored,-
    who shall suffer any goods, wares, or merchan-
    dise, packets, books, letters, or other articles, to
    be unshipped or landed, and any person or per-
    sons who shall be concerned in the unshipping
    or landing of the same, shall forfeit for each
    and every article so unshipped or landed, the
    sum of twenty pounds.
42. Every person or persons receiving any
    person, goods, wares, or merchandise, packets,
    packages, baggage, books, or letters, or any
    other article whatever, from any vessel so an-
    chored, shall forfeit for each and every article,
    the sum of twenty pounds.
43. Any person going within the limits of any
    quarantine station, when any vessel shall be-
    there at anchor, performing quarantine, shall
    forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.