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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCK-
LAND, THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF
JUNE, 1859.

PRESENT :
His Excellency the Governor,
Mr. Richmond, | Mr. Whitaker,
Mr. Tancred.

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations
Ordinance, No. 15, of Session 2, it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
in Council from time to time to make all such
Regulations respecting Pilots and Pilotage,
Quarantine and Harbours, as in the said Ordi-
nance provided.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, by and with the advice and consent of his
Executive Council, doth hereby make the fol-
lowing Regulations for the Ports and Har-
bours within the Province of Otago.
F. G. STEWARD.

Pilots and Masters of Vessels.

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 hereto
   annexed.

3. Every Pilot shall carry his License with
   him, and shall produce it to the Master of any
   Ship or Vessel on its being demanded or for-
   feit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

4. The Master of any Vessel employing
   other than a duly Licensed Pilot, if such shall
   have offered his services, shall forfeit double
   the amount of Pilotage.

5. Pilots are not bound to conduct any
   Vessel to sea until the payment of Pilotage has
   been satisfactorily secured.

6. Every 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 day in addition to
   the regular Pilotage.

7. Any Master who shall make a signal for
   a Pilot to take his vessel to sea, and shall not,
   within twelve hours after the arrival of the Pilot
   or board such vessel, proceed to sea, shall for-
   feit and pay a sum at the rate of One Pound
   per day for every day such Pilot may be de-
   tained on board such vessel in addition to the
   regular Pilotage, and the Pilot shall not be
   compellable to take such vessel to sea until
   such forfeiture and Pilotage shall have been
   satisfactorily secured. Provided that no penal-
   ty or penalties under this regulation shall ac-
   cumulate to a larger sum than twenty pounds.

8. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty,
   are to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty
   pounds.

9. The Master of every Vessel shall anchor
   or moor where the Harbour Master or Pilot
   may direct, and he shall not unmoor or quit
   the anchorage until notice be given in writing
   at the Harbour Master's Office, and any Mas-
   ter offending against this Regulation shall for-
   feit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

10. All Vessels must have buoys and buoy
    ropes to their anchors to show their position;
    and must hoist a conspicuous light at their
    peak end, and keep the same burning from sun-
    set to sunrise or forfeit a sum not exceeding
    ten pounds.

11. All Vessels moored or at anchor are to
    have both cables clear, and in readiness to slack
    away when required, and any Master offending
    against this Regulation shall forfeit a sum not
    exceeding ten pounds.

12. The rate of Pilotage shall be 3 shil-
    lings per foot in harbour, and one shilling per
    foot in any outer roadstead.

13. The Master of any Vessel neglecting to
    heave to and take on board the first duly licen-
    sed Pilot who shall offer his services, or refusing
    to accept of his services when offered, shall be
    liable to the same amount of Pilotage as if the
    services of such Pilot had been accepted, unless
    the Master of such Vessel is provided with a
    certificate of exemption (which may be granted
    by the Governor of the Colony or by the Su-
    perintendent of the Province) and has flown the
    exemption flag at the main from the time of his
    approaching within two leagues of any harbour
    in the Province, such exemption flag to consist
    of not less than six breadths of white bunting.

14. Any person who shall board any vessel
    arriving from a foreign port, before such vessel
    shall have been boarded by some person duly
    authorised in that behalf, shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Gunpowder.

15. The Master of every Vessel arriving
    with Gunpowder on board, exceeding fifty
    pounds in weight, shall give immediate notice
    thereof to the Pilot on his boarding the Vessel
    and shall land the same at the Powder Maga-
    zine before anchoring at the usual anchorage
    ground, or forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty
    pounds.

16. No Gunpowder is to be either received
    or issued by the Keeper of the Magazine, ex-
    cept hetweenth-hoof
    and five in the afternoon.

17. The Master of every Vessel shall cause
    all Gunpowder to be conveyed to the Magazine
    immediately after its being landed, or forfeit a
    sum not exceeding ten pounds.

18. All Gunpowder so landed shall be
    packed in barrels containing not more than one
    hundredweight each, closely joined and hooped
    without any iron about the packages, and so
    secure that no portion of the Gunpowder be in
    danger of being scattered in the passage, and
    any person offending against this Regulation,
    shall incur a penalty of any sum not exceeding
    ten pounds.

Harbours.

19. 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, and any person offending against this Re-
    gulation shall incur a penalty of any sum not
    exceeding five pounds.

20. No timber or any other article shall be