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21. No timber or any bulky article is to be
    left on any Public Warf or landing place,
    under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five
    pounds.
22. 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.
23. Any person removing, wilfully in-
    juring, or destroying any Buoy, Beacon, or
    Sea Mark, shall forfeit the sum of twenty
    pounds.
24. 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 liab'e to a penalty of not
    more than twenty nor less than five shillings.
25. 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.
26. Any person removing shingle, stone,
    shells, or any part of the soil below high
    water mark without permisson from the Har-
    bour Master, or in the absence of the Harbour
    Master, the Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit
    a sum not exceeeing ten pounds.
27. To the Master of every vessel not re-
    quired 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
    bythe 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.
28. Every Master or other Officer of a ship
    or vessel to whom a copy of the Harbour Re-
    gulations shall have been delivered shall give
    en demand an acknowledgement thereof, to
    the Pilot or other Officer delivering the said
    copy, and any Pilot failing to demand, or
    any Master of a ship or vessel refusing on
    demand to give such acknowledgment, shal 1
    forfeit and pay a fine of not more than five |
    pounds.
29. The Passengers Act, 18 & 19 Victoria,
    cap. 119, is in force in this Colony and, a
    Proclamation under it was issued in the New
    Zealand "Government Gazette," No. 8, of the
    19th March, 1856.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS
FOR THE COLONY OF NEW ZLALAND.
30. The Master of every vessel arriving at
any Harbour which shall be deemed by the
Harbour Master to be liable to quarantine,
shail, on being directed so to do by the Har-
bour Master, cause the same to be anchored
in the Quarantine ground appointed for the
Harbour or forfeit and pay for every such of-
fence, the sum of one hundred pounds.

31. The Master of every vess I so ancho ed,
    shall neither himself quit nor permit any sea-
    man, passenger, or other person to quit the
    same, until he shall have been duly admit-
    ted to pratique, or forfeit the sum of one
    hundred pounds.
32. Every seaman, passenger, or other pr-
    son so quitting, shall, for every such offence
    forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
33. 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 is used in Her
    Majesty's Navy, and to keep the same respec-
    tively hoisted until released from quarantine,
    or forfeit the sum of twen y pounds.
34. The master of every vessel so anchored
    is to deliver to the Harbour Master, or other
    authorized person, his Bill of Health, Mani-
    fest, Log-book and Journal, and he is to filt
    up a Report in the form and manner pointel
    out in the Schedule A annexed.
35. The Master of every vessel so anchored
    who shall suffer any goods, wares, o me:chan-
    dize, packets, books, letters or other artic es
    to be unshipped or landed, and any person or
    persons who shall be concerned in the unship-
    ping or landin, of the same, shall forfeit for
    each and every article so unshipped or landed,
    the sum of twenty pounds.
36. Every person or persons who shall
    knowingly receive any goods, wares, or mer-
    chandize, packets, package, baggage, books,
    or letters, or any other article whatever, from
    any vessel so anchored, shall forfeit for each
    and every article the sum of twenty pounds.
37. 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 exc eding twenty
    pounds.
38. If any officer or person entrusted with
    orders respecting Qarantine shall in any way
    neglect his duty, he shall forfei: for each of-
    fence the sum of twenty pounds.
39. The Harbour Master shall, immediately
    after his having so anchored any vessel, report
    the same to the Resident Magistrate and
    Health Officer, or to the person or persons
    acting, or appointed to act for those function -
    aries.
    40 The Resident Magistrate and Health
    Officer, or Medical Practioner appointed for
    that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, shall
    upon the receipt of such report, visit the ves-
    sel so anchored, and if they shall find that any
    sickness of an infectious or contagious nature
    exists on board of her, they shall shall submit
    the information to a Board, consisting of the
    Resident Magistrate, and one or more Justices
    of the Peace, the superior officer of the Cus-
    toms of the port, and the Health Officer or
    Medical Practitioner as aforesaid, to be conven-
    ed for that purpose by the Resident Magistrate
    which board, or the majority of them, shall
    have authority to detain such vessel in Quaran-
    tine until every symptom of the aforesaid dis-
    ease has disappeared, when the same board or
    the majority of them have hereby power to