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4. The rates of Pilotage are:-In the Har-bour, 3s. per foot; in the Roadstead, 1s per
   foot. But it is optional with Masters of Ves-sels to take a Pilot.

5. When the Pilot offers his services out-side the Bar, if employed, he shall be entitled
   to the full amount of pilotage after the vess-l is safely anchored or moored in the Harbour.

6. The limits of the Pilot station shall
   extend three miles from the Port.
   In the event of the Pilot being required to
   board or conduct a Vessel beyond that distance,
   he shall be entitled, in addition to the Pilotage,
   to distance-money at the rate of Twenty-one
   Shillings per mile.

7. When the Pilot offers his services inside
   the Bar, if employed, he shall be entitled to
   half-Pilotage.

8. When the services of a Pilot are required
   to move a vessel from one side of the Harbour
   to the other, he shall be entitled to Twenty-one Shillings except when from the prevalence,
   of certain winds or strong tides, he is unable at
   the time, to bring her, (if desired) into the
   "Iron Pot" (Eastern Harbour).

9. 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 diem in addition
   to the regular Pilotage.

10. Pilots are not bound to conduct any
    vessel to sea until the pilotage has been paid,
    or satisfactorily secured.

11. Any Filot refusing or neglecting to
    perform his duty, shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

12. The Master of any Ship or Vessel
    employing other than a duly licensed Pilot,
    should such have offered his services, shall
    forfeit double the amount of pilotage.

13. Any person or persons resisting, im-peding, or obstructing, the Harbour Master
    or Pilot, or other person or persons deputed
    by either of them, in the execution of his or
    their duty, or using threatening or abusive
    language to them, shall forfeit and pay a sum
    not exceeding Five Pounds.

HARBOUR.

14. No Ballast or Rubbish shall be thrown
    overboard, except in such places as the Har-bour Master may point out; and any person
    offending against this Regulation shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

15. No Timber, Firewood, or any bulky
    articles, shall be left on any public landing
    place, or on any Government Reserve, longer
    than Fourteen days; and any person offending
    against this Regulation shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

16. Any person removing, injuring, or
    destroying, any Buoy, Beacon, or Sea Mark,
    shall forfeit and pay the sum of Twenty
    Pounds.

17. Any person or persons removing Stone,
    Shingle, or any part of the Soil below high
    water mark, inside the Harbour, without the permission of the Harbour Master, shall forfeit
    a sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

18. The Master of every Vessel arriving
    with Gunpowder on board, exceeding Fifty
    Pounds weight, shall give immediate notice
    to the Pilot on his boarding such vessel and
    shall land the same at a place appointed for
    that purpose, by the Superintendent, before
    entering the Eastern Harbour, under a penal-ty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

19. Masters of Vessels are prohibited from
    firing guns in the Harbour, except in cases of
    distress, and any person offending against
    this Regulation, shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding Five Pounds.

20. The Master of any Ship or Vessel, or
    person in charge, refusing, or neglecting to
    remove his Vessel when desired by the Har-bour Master, or obstructing him in the dis-charge of such duty, shall be liable to a pe-nalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

21. The Master of every Vessel shall anchor
    or moor where the Harbour Master or Pilot
    may direct, and he shall not quit such anchor-age until due notice be given to the Harbour
    Master, and any Master offending against this
    Regulation shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding Five Pounds.

22. After a vessel has been unloaded and
    properly ballasted, it will be at the option of
    the Harbour Master to remove her out clear
    of the Shipping, to make room for Vessels re-quiring 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 enable her to be removed, the Har-bour Master or Pilot may remove such Ves-sel at the expense and risk of the owner
    thereof.

23. Any person obstructing or impeding
    the navigation of any channel, or creek, or
    obstructing any public landing place, by
    placing a vessel, cable, boat, warp, or other
    article in the way, shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding Ten Pounds; and, in case any
    person causing such obstruction or impedi-ment shall refuse or neglect to remove, or
    cause to be removed, the same, when required
    so to do by the Harbour Master or Pilot, the
    Harbour Master or Pilot may cast off or cut
    such obstruction.

24. Any person who makes any vessel,
    boat, timber, or other article fast to any buoy,
    beacon, 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 such buoy, beacon, or sea
    mark is accidentally removed, injured, or des-troyed, who does not forchwith make good
    such damage, or pay to the Harbour Master
    a sum sufficient to cover the expenses of so
    doing, shall, for every such offence, forfeit a
    penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

25. 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