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Master, to be accounted for as aforesaid; and
if any person without the consent or authority
of the Harbour Master cuts or casts off any
such rope or tackle so made fast and attached
to any other vessel as aforesaid, or in any other
manner infringes this regulation, such person
shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds.
30. Any person without due authority resist-
ing, impeding or obstructing the Harbour
Master, Pilot, or other person deputed by either
of them, in the execution of his duty, or using
threatening or abusive language to them, or
any of them, shall forfeit and pay a sum not
exceeding five pounds.
31. 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 of five pounds, to be paid
by any person landing such rubbish or filth.
32. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones,
earthenware, glass, or filth is to be thrown over-
board 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,
stones, earthenware, glass bottles, filth or rub-
bish, is to be placed by any other means at any
place below the high water mark within the
Harbour; and proper tarpaulins are to be used
in discharging or taking in ballast, coals, rub-
bish, gravel, earth, or filth of any kind, so as to
prevent any part thereof falling into the har-
bour; and any person who shall offend against
any of the provisions of this regulation shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds.
33. No pitch, tar, rosin, or other combustible
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 regulation
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds.
34. 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 liable to a
penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
35. Any person throwing a dead animal into
the harbour, or placing any dead animal below
high water mark within the limits of the
anchorage, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds, and to an additional
penalty of one pound for every 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 and additional penalty shall
together exceed the sum of twenty pounds.
36. All vessels, unless specially permitted 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 against this regula-
tion shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
five pounds.

37. Any person removing shingle, stones,
    shells, or any part of the soil below high-water
    mark without the permission of the Harbour
    Master, or, in the absence of the Harbour Mas-
    ter, of a Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum
    not exceeding five pounds.
38. No waterman, or other person in charge
    of any boat, shall go alongside, or board, or
    suffer or permit any person to board any vessel
    arriving at port from beyond sea, until such
    vessel is properly secured at her anchorage; and
    any person offending against this Regulation
    shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five
    pounds. Provided that this regulation shall
    not be construed to prevent the boarding of any
    vessel by the owner or agent, or any other
    person having the written permission of the
    owner or agent, or by any Immigration Agent,
    Pilot, Boarding Officer, Officer of Customs, or
    Health Officer, or other person acting in the
    execution of his duty.
39. All vessels carrying ballast for shipping
    shall have the stem and stern post of such ves-
    sel marked with a plate of iron in inches, shew-
    ing its tonnage, according to the draught of
    water when laden. The Master or owners of any
    vessel supplying ballast to any ship or vessel
    without complying with the above regulations
    shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any
    sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

Gunpowder.
40. The Master of every vessel arriving with
gunpowder on board, exceeding the quantity
necessary as ship's stores, shall give immediate
notice thereof to the Pilot on his boarding the
vessel, and shall land the same at the Powder
Magazine before anchoring at the usual anchor-
age ground, or forfeit a sum not exceeding
twenty pounds.
41. No gunpowder is to be either received
or issued by the Keeper of the Magazine,
except between the hours of seven in the
morning and five in the afternoon.
42. The Master of every vessel shall cause
all gunpowder to be conveyed to the Magazine
immediately after its being landed, or forfeit a
sum not exceeding ten pounds.
43. All gunpowder so landed must be packed
in barrels containing not more than one cwt.
each, closely joined and hooped, without any
iron about the packages, and so secured that no
portion of the gunpowder be in danger of being
scattered in the passage; and any person offend-
ing against this regulation shall incur a penalty
of any sum not exceeding ten pounds.
44. Nothing contained in these Regulations
shall be deemed to apply to any ship, boat, or
gunpowder the property of Her Majesty, nor
to any ship of war of any foreign nation, nor
to any gunpowder in charge of the Govern-
ment of the Colony.

Signals
To be made from all Vessels in Harbour when
a Pilot is required—
Sea Pilot—Union Jack at the fore.
Police Boat—Ensign at the main.