✨ Harbour Regulations Continuation




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 237

  1. Every Pilot detained on board a vessel
    longer than 48 hours, whether by stress of
    weather, quarantine, or otherwise, is to be paid
    eight shillings per day in addition to the regu-
    lar pilotage.

  2. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty
    to forfeit a sam not exceeding twenty pounds.

  3. The Master of every vessel (except as
    hereinafter mentioned), arriving from beyond
    seas, and not being a coasting vessel, shall pay
    the full amount of pilotage, whether taking a
    pilot or not.

  4. All vessels trading to or from the neigh-
    bouring colonies shall be exempted from taking
    a Pilot, upon paying half the usual rate of
    pilotage, whatever that may be; if a Pilot is
    taken, however, full pilotage is to be paid.

  5. All vessels under 100 tons trading from
    or to the neighbouring colonies shall, upon the
    Master proving himself qualified, be furnished
    with a Certificate of Exemption from pilotage,
    but shall in lieu thereof, pay one full pilotage
    inwards and outwards per annum.

  6. Every Master so qualified and not requir-
    ing a Pilot shall, on approaching the harbour
    within two leagues, hoist a white flag at the
    main, or forfeit a sum not exceeding full pilot-
    age.

  7. 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 Master
    offending against this regulation shall forfeit
    a sum not exceeding five pounds.

  8. All vessels moored or at anchor are to
    have both cables clear and in readiness to slack
    away when required. And in default thereof
    the Master shall forfeit and pay a sum not ex-
    ceeding ten pounds.

  9. All vessels are when it is so ordered by
    the Harbor Master or Pilot to have buoys and
    and buoy ropes to their anchors, to shew their
    position, and to hoist a conspicuous light at
    their peak end from dark to daylight, and in
    default thereof the Master shall forfeit and pay
    a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

  10. And any anchor, kedge or cable, slipped
    or cut from, if not weighed within twenty-four
    hours, may be weighed by order of the Harbor
    Master or Pilot, at the risk of and the expense
    of the owner. And when no buoy rope has been
    attached, the anchor, kedge, or cable shall be
    forfeited.

  11. After a vessel has been unloaded and
    properly ballasted, it will be at the option of
    the Harbor Master to remove her out clear of
    the shipping, to make room for vessels requir-
    ing berths to unload, and if there shall not be
    on board any vessel which has been unloaded,
    sufficient men or ballast or requisite tackle to
    to enable her to be removed, the Harbor Mas-
    ter or Pilot may remove such vessel at the ex-
    pense and risk of the owner thereof.

  12. Any person obstructing or impeding the
    navigation of any channel, river, inlet or creek,
    or obstructing any public landing place by plac-
    ing a vessel, cable, boat, or warp, or other ar-
    ticle in the way, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding ten pounds; and in case any person
    causing such obstruction or impediment, will
    not remove or cause to be removed the same
    when ordered by the Harbor Master or Pilot,.
    the Harbor Master or Pilot may cast off or
    cut such obstruction.

  13. The owner or part owner in, or the com-
    mander of, any vessel or boat which has been
    sunk, stranded, or run on shore, or the owner
    of any baulk of timber, or other bulky article
    which is in the water who does not clear the
    Harbor of such vessels or boats, or remove such
    baulk of timber or other bulky article upon
    being required so to do, by notice in writing un-
    der the hand of the Harbor Master, or any Jus-
    tice of the Peace, within such reasonable time
    as may be mentioned for the purpose in such
    notice shall, for every such offence, forfeit a pe-
    nalty not exceeding ten pounds.

  14. And any Justice upon the complaint of
    the Harbour Master, or any other person may,
    issue his warrant for the clearing of the Harbour
    or removing of such baulk of timber, or other
    bulky article in such manner as such Justice
    shall direct, and for causing such vessel or boat,
    baulk of timber, or other bulky article to be
    sold, and out of the money arising from such
    sale, may pay the charges of such clearing or
    removal as the case may be, paying the surplus
    to the Harbour Master to be accounted for as
    fees collected by him.

  15. Any person who makes any vessel, boat,
    timber, or other article fast to any buoy, bea-
    con, or sea mark, and any Master or owner of a
    vessel being navigated without having a Pilot
    on board, or the owner of any boat by which
    any such buoy, beacon, or sea mark, is acci-
    dentally removed, injured, or destroyed, who
    does not forthwith make good such damage or
    pay to the Harbour Master, a sum sufficient to
    cover the expense of so doing, shall for every
    such offence, forfeit a penalty not exceeding
    twenty pounds.

  16. Whenever a vessel not employed in
    coasting only, arrives within the Harbour, the
    Harbour Master shall appoint the place where
    she is to cast anchor or be moored; and as often
    as the Master of any vessel is desirous of re-
    moving her from one place of anchorage to
    another, he shall notify in writing such his de-
    sire to the Harbour Master, who shall there-
    upon, unless he sees sufficient reason to the
    contrary, direct the removal accordingly; and
    the Harbour Master may remove any vessel,
    timber, or any other article from any berth
    alongside any Wharf or elsewhere, if such re-
    moval is, in the opinion of the Harbour Master,
    desirable and proper for the general accommo-
    dation of the shipping; and for any such service
    so to be performed by such Harbour Master
    there shall be paid by the Master, or Owner
    of such vessel to such Harbour Master, the
    sum of 7s. 6d. for each vessel under 100
    tons register, and for each other articles;
    and a sum at the rate of 1d. per ton register for
    each vessel above 100 tons register, to be ac-
    counted for as aforesaid.



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πŸ›οΈ Harbour Regulations for the Port and Harbour of Port Victoria (continued from previous page)

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
25 October 1859
Pilotage fees, Vessel movement, Penalties, Anchorage, Harbour Master, Mooring, Sunken vessels