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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Health-Officer; and any person offending against
this regulation, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
Five Pounds.

10. After the clearance has been delivered to the
    master of any vessel outward bound, no passenger
    shall be taken on board.

11. All complaints against any person connected
    with the Harbour Department must be made in
    writing to the Port Officer for the Province.

Harbour Regulations.

12. 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.

13. All vessels are to have buoys and sufficient
    buoy ropes to their anchors, to show their position;
    and to exhibit at some conspicuous place twenty feet
    above the deck, a bright light from dark to daylight,
    and in default thereof, the master shall forfeit and
    pay a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

14. Any anchor, kedge, or cable slipped or cut, if
    not weighed within twenty-four hours, may be
    weighed by order of the harbour-master or pilot, at
    the risk of, and the expense of the owner; and when
    no buoy rope has been attached, the anchor, kedge,
    or cable shall be forfeited.

15. After a vessel has been unloaded and properly
    ballasted, it will be at the option of the harbour-
    master to move her out clear of the shipping, to
    make room for vessels requiring 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
    harbour-master or pilot, may move such vessel at
    the expense and risk of the owner thereof.

16. Any person obstructing or impeding the navi-
    gation of any channel, river, inlet, or creek, or
    obstructing any 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
    impediment, will not remove or cause to be removed
    the same, when ordered by the harbour-master or
    pilot, the harbour-master or pilot may cast off or cut
    any such obstruction.

17. The owner or part owner in, or the commander
    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 vessel or
    boat, or remove such baulk of timber, or other
    bulky article, on being required so to do, by notice
    in writing under the hand of the harbour-master or
    of any Justice of the Peace, within such reasonable
    time as may be mentioned for the purpose in such
    notice, shall for every such offence, forfeit a penalty
    not exceeding Ten Pounds.

18. Any Justice, upon the complaint of the har-
    bour-master or any other person, may issue his
    warrant for the clearing of the harbour, or removing
    of such sunk or stranded vessel or boat, 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
    surplus to the Harbour-master to be accounted for
    by him.

19. 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 of moving her from one place of
    anchorage to another, he shall notify in writing such
    his desire to the harbour-master, who shall there-
    upon, unless he sees sufficient reason to the contrary,
    direct the removal accordingly.

20. In the performance of any such service by the
    harbour-master, the master of the vessel and the
    crew thereof are required to give and afford to such
    harbour-master all possible aid and assistance to
    effect the same; and in effecting any such service, or
    any other service in the execution of his duty, the
    harbour-master is empowered to make fast and attach
    any rope, or other tackle, to any other vessel, and if
    there is no crew, of the vessel to be moved, or the
    crew thereof refuse, or fail to aid and assist as afore-
    said, or if the crew, or tackle, or quantity of ballast
    on board such vessel is not sufficient to enable the
    harbour-master to effect such removal, he is em-
    powered to hire and employ such other assistance
    and tackle, and to purchase and put on board such
    vessel such other quantity of ballast as to him seems
    requisite, at the cost or charges of the master or
    owner of such vessel, and such cost and charges such
    master or owner is required to pay to the harbour-
    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.

21. All vessels must unshot their guns immediately
    after entering any port or harbour, and no guns or
    firearms are to be discharged, or blue-lights, rockets,
    or other combustibles, burned or discharged from any
    ship, vessel, or boat (except from mail, steamers an-
    nouncing their arrival or departure) unless permission
    in writing has been obtained from the harbour-
    master), except only, when urgent assistance is re-
    quired, under a penalty of Five Pounds.

22. All ships and vessels under 400 tons, at anchor,
    are required to be provided with fire-buckets in the
    proportion of four to every hundred tons, and two
    for every additional hundred tons, one half of which
    are to be constantly hung up in some convenient
    place, with lanyards attached, ready for drawing
    water.

23. In the event of the death of any person on
    board of any vessel in port, the master of such
    vessel is to cause the body to be buried on shore,
    previously reporting the particulars to the Police.

24. The Master, or person in charge of any
    ship or vessel, with the undermentioned exceptions,
    shall at all times in port, as well by day as by night,
    have at least one seaman in charge of the deck of
    such ship or vessel; and the person having such
    charge, and all persons having the charge of or being
    on board of any boat within any port, shall answer
    to the challenge of the water police, or other duly
    authorised public officer. Vessels laid up, coal hulks,
    ballast or other lighters, lying in such limits as the
    harbour-master may authorise them to occupy, are
    exempt from the foregoing regulation.

25. Masters requiring to careen, heave down, or
    haul their vessels on shore for the purpose of in-
    spection, or repairs, must apply to the harbour-
    master of the port for permission, except when such
    work is proposed to be done on private property.

26. Accidents involving personal injury, loss of
    life or property from loss or collision of vessels or
    boats, are to be reported in writing by the person in
    charge to the nearest Harbour-master and principal
    officer of Customs as soon as possible.

27. All Masters, Pilots, or other persons in charge
    of vessels, are immediately to strike their top-gallant
    yards and masts, to have their jib, spanker, and all
    other booms rigged close in, top up, and brace fore
    and aft all yards, and moor and clear hawse wher