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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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
Ordinance provided.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, by and with the advice and censent of
his Executive Council, doth hereby make the
following Regulations for the Port and Har-
bour of Lyttelton.

FORSTER GORING,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS
FOR THE
PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Pilot 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 forfeit
   a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

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

5. The Master of any vessel requiring a Pilot
   to conduct her to sea must make an application
   at the Harbour Master's Office, 21 hours pre-
   viously to sailing.

6. The rate of pilotage into or out of the
   Port of Lyttelton, from or to the distance of
   one league from the pilot station are as fol-
   lows:-

Vessels under 200 tons 4d. per ton register.
" 200 to 300 tons 3d.
" 300 to 400 " 3d.
" 400 to 600 " 2d.
" 600 & upwards 2d.

—And 1d. per ton upon each occasion that a
vessel is shifted from one part of the harbour
to another.

7. Pilots are not bound to conduct any ves-
   sel to sea until payment of the pilotage has
   been satisfactorily secured.

8. Pilots on being appointed to outward-
   bound vessels, before taking charge, are to
   ascertain that their decks are clear, and that
   they are sufficiently manned, and in a proper
   state for working as regards masts, rigging,
   sails, anchors, and boats.

9. Any Master who shall make a signal for
   a Pilot, or cause a Pilot to be sent for to take
   his vessel to sea, and shall not, within 12 hours
   of the time of the arrival of the Pilot on board
   such vessel, proceed to sea, shall pay a sum at
   the rate of one pound per day for every day
   such Pilot may be detained on board such
   vessel, in addition to the regular pilotage.
   And the Pilot shall not be compelled to con-
   duct such vessel to sea until such additional
   payment and pilotage shall have been paid or
   satisfactorily secured.

10. 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.

11. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty
    to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Every Master so qualified and not re-
    quiring a Pilot shall, on approaching the har-
    bour within two leagues, hoist a white flag at
    the main, or forfeit a sum not exceeding full
    pilotage.

16. Every Master of a ship or vessel required
    to take a Pilot shall be furnished with a copy
    of the Harbour Regulations on her entry into
    Port by the boarding Pilot, and any Pilot fail-
    ing to deliver such copy before leaving any
    vessel, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding
    five pounds.

17. To the Master of every vessel not re-
    quired to take a Pilot, or in the absence of the
    Master to the principal Officer on board, a
    copy of the Harbour Regulations shall be deli-
    vered by the Harbour Master: provided how-
    ever that it shall not be necessary in any case
    to issue a second copy of the Regulations to
    the Master or Officer in charge of such vessel,
    unless demanded by such Master or Officer, in
    which case only on the payment of a fee of two
    shillings and sixpence, to be accounted for
    amongst the other fees taken by the Harbour
    Master.

18. Every Master or other Officer of a ship
    or vessel to whom a copy of the Harbour Re-
    gulations shall have been handed shall give, on
    demand, an acknowledgment thereof to the Pilot
    or Officer delivering such copy, and any Pilot
    failing to demand, or any Master of a ship or
    vessel refusing, on demand, to give such ac-
    knowledgment, shall forfeit and pay a fine not
    exceeding five pounds.

19. 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 exceeding ten pounds.

20. All vessels are to have buoys and suffi-
    cient 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