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cases of distress), under a penalty of any sum
not exceeding five pounds.
33. Any person removing shingle, stone,
shells, or any part of the soil below high-water
mark (except where the water frontage has
been given by the New Zealand Company to
their purchasers) without permission from the
Harbour Master, or in the absence of the
Harbour Master the Resident Magistrate,
shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.
34. The third part of the Act of the
Imperial Parliament, "The Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854," has been brought into operation in
New Zealand, as far as applicable.

Pilots' License.

By virtue of the power vested in me, you
are hereby authorised and directed to act as
Pilot for the Port of Wellington, and you are
enjoined to use your best skill and knowledge
in all duties appertaining to that office, strictly
conforming to the Regulations of the Harbour
aforesaid, and obeying such orders and instruc-
tions as you may from time to time receive
from me.

Given under my hand this
day of
in the year
of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and
at Government House, Auck-
land, New Zealand.

SCHEDULE A.
Declaration.

I, A. B., of the
do solemnly
declare that I have delivered all public des-
patches, letters, parcels, newspapers, and all
Post Office mails and letters, both in parcels
and loose, which were on board my vessel.

Signature of Master.
Witness.

SCHEDULE B.

For each and every barrel or
package containing 50 lbs of
Gunpowder and upwards, for
any period not exceeding six
weeks ...................................... £0 1 0
Ditto, ditto, above six weeks per
week. ...................................... 0 0 2
For each and every barrel or
package containing less than
50 lbs, for any period not
exceeding six weeks ...................... 0 0 6
Ditto, ditto, above six weeks..... 0 0 1

II.-QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

1. The Master of every Vessel arriving in
   the Harbour which shall be deemed by the
   Harbour Master to be liable to quarantine,
   shall on being directed so to do by the Harbour
   Master, cause the same to be anchored in the
   Quarantine ground appointed for the Harbour,
   or forfeit and pay for every such offence, the
   sum of one hundred pounds.
2. The Master of every Vessel so anchored,
   shall neither himself quit, nor permit any Sea-
   man, Passenger, or other person to quit the
   same, until he shall have been duly admitted
   to pratique, or forfeit the sum of one hundred
   pounds.
3. Every Seaman, Passenger, or other person
   so quitting, shall for every such offence, forfeit
   the sum of twenty pounds.
4. 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 twenty pounds.
5. The Master of every Vessel so anchored
   is to deliver to the Harbour Master, or other
   authorized 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 A. annexed.
6. The Master of every Vessel so anchored
   who shall suffer any goods, wares, or merchan-
   dize, 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. If any officer or person entrusted with
   orders respecting Quarantine shall in any way
   neglect his duty, he shall forfeit for each offence
   the sum of twenty pounds.
10. 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 functionaries.
11. The Resident Magistrate and Health
    Officer, or Medical Practitioner appointed for
    that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, shall
    upon the receipt of such report, visit the vessel
    so anchored, and if they shall find that any
    sickness of an infectious, or contagious nature,
    exists on board of her, they shall submit the
    information to a Board, consisting of the Resi-
    dent Magistrate, and one or more Justices of
    the Peace, the superior officer of the Customs
    of the Port, and the Health Officer or Medical
    Practitioner as aforesaid, to be convened for
    that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, which
    board, or the majority of them, shall have
    authority to detain such vessel in Quarantine
    until every sympton of the aforesaid disease
    has disappeared, when the same board, or the
    majority of them, have hereby power to release
    such vessel from Quarantine, and admit her to
    pratique.