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be compellable to take such vessel to sea until
such forfeiture and pilotage shall have been
satisfactorily secured; Provided that no penalty
or penalties under this regulation shall accumu-
late to a larger sum than twenty pounds.
9. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty
are to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty
pounds.
10. All vessels trading to or from the neigh-
bouring 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 out-
wards per annum.
11. The rate of pilotage into or out of Har-
bour, from or to the distance of one league
from the Pilot Station, is three-pence per
register ton, ten shillings per mile for every
mile beyond one league from the Pilot Station,
and twenty-one shillings upon each occasion
that a vessel is shifted from one part of the
Harbour to another.
12. The Master of any vessel neglecting to
heave to and take on board the first duly
licensed 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 Superintendent of the Province) and
shall have 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.
General Rules and Regulations.
13. 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.
14. 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 sunset to
sunrise, or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten
pounds.
15. 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.
16. Pilots shall not be bound to take vessels
to sea on Sunday.
17. Any persou who shall board any vessel
arriving from a foreign port, before such vessel
shall have been boarded by come person duly
authorized in that behalf, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five pounds.
18. No timber or any other article shall be
left on any public jetty, wharf, or landing-place,
or the approach thereto, for a longer period
than six hours, and any person offending against
this regulation shall incur a penalty not exceed-
ten pounds; and it shall be lawful for the
Harbour Master, when in his opinion the pub-
lic convenience requires it, at any time, during
or after the expiry of such period, to cause such
timber or other article immediately to be
removed from any such jetty, wharf, or landing-
place, or approach thereto, to any place he may
think proper, at the expense and risk of the.
owner, or his agent, or the person in charge of
such timber or other article.
19. Any person removing, wilfully injur-
ing or destroying any buoy, beacon, or sea
mark, shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
20. Any person drowning any animal in or
throwing a dead animal into the Harbour, or
placing any dead animal below high water
mark, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
five pounds, and to an additional penalty of one
pound per day during which any such animal
remains in the Harbour, or below high water
mark, or unburied on the beach above high
water mark, provided that no such penalty shall
together exceed the sum of twenty pounds.
21. No pitch, tar, resin, or other combusti-
ble 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
twenty pounds.
22. Any anchor or kedge slipped, parted, or
cut from, if not weighed within twenty-four
hours, may be weighed by order of the Harbour
Master, at the risk and expense of the owner;
and when no buoy has been attached the an-
chor or kedge shall be forfeited.
23. No wreck is to be left standing 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 lia-
ble to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
24. 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
Harbour 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 under the hand of the Harbour Master
or any Justice of the Peace, within such rea-
sonable time as may be mentioned for the pur-
pose in such notice, shall for every such offence
be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds
and any Justice upon the complaint of the
Harbour Master, or any other person, may is-
sue 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 sur-
plus to the Harbour Master to be accounted
for as fees collected by him.
25. All vessels are to unshot their guns be-
fore they anchor, and no guns or firearms, ex-
cept in self-defence or in cases of distress, are