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16. 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, under a penalty not exceeding £5, to be
    paid by any person landing such rubbish or
    filth.

17. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone,
    earthenware, glass, or filth is to be thrown
    overboard from any vessel or boat, but is to be
    landed and placed at such place as the Harbour
    Master may direct, and no gravel, earth, stone,
    earthenware, glass, bottles, filth, or rubbish, is
    to be placed by any other means at any place
    below the highwater mark within the harbour,
    and proper tarpaulins are to be used in dis-
    charging or taking in ballast, coals, rubbish,
    gravel, earth, or filth, of any kind so as to pre-
    vent any part thereof falling into the harbour;
    and any person who shall offend against any of
    the provisions of this regulation, shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding £20.

18. No pitch, tar, rosin, or other combus-
    tible matter shall be lighted or heated on board
    any vessel or boat, whilst lying alongside or
    near any wharf or vessel in the harbour, and
    any person who shall offend against this regu-
    lation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    £20.

19. No wreck is to be left stranded in any
    part of the harbour but must be conveyed on
    shore, above high water mark, and if any
    wreck is so left the owner thereof shall be
    liable to pay a penalty not exceeding £20.

20. Any person throwing a dead animal into
    the harbour or placing any dead animal below
    highwater mark within the limits of the an-
    chorage, shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
    ceeding £5, and to an additional penalty of £1
    for every day during which any such animal
    remains in the harbour, or below highwater
    mark, or unburied on the beach above high-
    water mark. Provided that no such penalty
    and additional penalty shall together exceed
    the sum of £20.

21. Vessels, unless specially permitted in
    writing by the Harbour Master, are prohibited
    from firing guns between the hours of sunset
    and sunrise, and on Sunday (except in cases of
    distress), and any person who shall offend this
    regulation shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
    ceeding £5.

22. Any person removing shingle, stone,
    shells, or any part of the soil below highwater
    mark without the permission of the Harbour
    Master, or in the absence of the Harbour
    Master, of a Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit
    a sum not exceeding £10.

23. Any person landing or shipping cattle
    from or into any vessel or boat, on the shores
    of the harbour, within the limits of the
    City or Suburbs of Auckland, (except as here-
    inafter mentioned) shall forfeit and pay £5 for
    each head of cattle so landed or shipped, but
    no such penalty shall exceed £20 in the whole.
    Tame cattle or thoroughbred stock imported
    for breeding purposes may, subject to the ap-
    proval of the Harbour Master or Inspector of
    Police, whose permission in writing must be

first obtained, be shipped or landed at the
Queen-street Wharf before eight o'clock in the
morning; and any description of cattle may be
landed or shipped within the Suburbs between
sunrise and sunset, subject as aforesaid to the
approval of the before-mentioned authorities.

Note.—The third part of the Act of the
Imperial Parliament, "The Merchant Ship-
ping Act, 1854," has been brought into opera-
tion in New Zealand, so far as the same is
applicable.

Signals

to be made from vessels in harbour when re-
quired as under :—

Sea Pilot.—Union Jack at the fore.
Harbour Master.—Ensign at the fore.
Day Signal.—The Union Jack
over Ensign at the main.
Police Boat Night Signal.—Two lights ver-
tical at the peak, four feet
between each.
Custom House Boat.—Union Jack at the
peak.
Medical Assistance.—Union Jack over En-
sign at the peak.

Rules to be observed by vessels passing each

other.

24. Whenever any vessel proceeding in one
    direction meets a vessel proceeding in another,
    and the Master or other person having charge of
    either such vessel perceives that if both vessels
    continue their respective courses they will pass
    so near as to involve any risk of a collision, he
    shall put up the helm of his vessel to port so as
    to pass on the port side of the other vessel, due
    regard being had to the tide and to the position
    of each vessel with respect to the dangers of
    the channel, and as regards sailing vessels to
    the keeping of each vessel under command; and
    if the Master or any other person having
    charge of any vessel neglect to observe these
    regulations, he shall, for every such offence, be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

25. Steam vessels when passing or near to
    sailing vessels are always to be considered in
    the light of vessels navigating with a fair
    wind.

The following established nautical rules are
appended for the guidance of Masters of
vessels:—

26. Sailing vessels having the wind fair
    shall give way to vessels on a wind.

27. When two vessels are going by the
    wind the vessel on the starboard tack shall
    keep her wind and the one on the port tack
    bear up, thereby passing each other on the
    port hand.

28. When two vessels have the wind large
    or a-beam, and meet, they shall pass each other
    in the same way on the port hand, the helm of
    each being put a-port.

Gunpowder.

29. No Gunpowder shall be shipped or
    landed at any wharf or other place within the
    City of Auckland, except between Britomart