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tioned in such notice for that purpose; any Justice
of the Peace may issue his warrant for the removal
and sale thereof, deducting the amount of all expenses
from the proceeds of such sale, and pay the surplus,
if any, to the Provincial Treasurer; and if the pro-
ceeds be insufficient to cover such expenses, he may
demand the balance from such owner or master, and
may levy the same by distress if not paid within
fourteen days.
29. Any person who wilfully injures, removes, or
destroys any buoy, beacon, or sea mark used for the
convenience of navigation, or the preservation of
vessels, shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction
of the said offence shall be liable to penal servitude
for a period not exceeding four years.
30. If any person wilfully breaks down, destroys,
or in anywise damages or injures any wharf, quay,
pier, or dock shed, roadway, building, or other work
whatsoever which is under the charge of any Super-
intendent, every person so offending shall for every
such offence forfeit a penalty not exceeding fifty
pounds, over and above the amount of injury or
damage done.
31. If any person wilfully or negligently breaks,
throws down, damages, or takes away any lamp, lamp-
post, lamp-iron, or other work set up for the purpose
of lighting any such wharf, quay, pier, or dock, as
aforesaid, or any such adjoining roadway, or street as
aforesaid, or wilfully extinguishes any light within
such lamp, every person so offending shall forfeit for
every such offence a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds over and above the amount of the injury or
damage done.
32. All masters of vessels exceeding two hundred
tons register shall cause a sufficient guard or watch
to be kept on deck both by day and night. All other
descriptions of decked vessels must have at least one
person on board by day or night, and in default
thereof shall be liable to a penalty of ten pounds.
33. No waterman or other person in charge of any
boat or craft shall be allowed to leave any such boat
or craft in the way so as to obstruct the accommoda-
tion for getting to or from the steps of any vessel or
public landing place; and if such obstruction be not
removed by the person or persons so offending when
requested to do so by the Harbour Master, or officer
deputed by him, such person shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding five pounds.
34. All masters or other persons in charge of
vessels are immediately to strike any yard or top-
mast, or rig in any boom, and move or clear hawse
when called upon by the Harbour Master, and are
generally to follow such directions as the state of the
weather or other circumstances may render necessary
or expedient in the judgment of the Harbour Master
for the safety and interest of the shipping, and in
default thereof shall forfeit and pay any sum not
exceeding ten pounds.

Gunpowder.
35. All vessels arriving having gunpowder on
board exceeding fifty pounds weight shall hoist the
"Union Jack" at the main, and remain clear of the
shipping until such gunpowder be landed; and any
person offending against this regulation shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
36. Provided that the foregoing regulations shall
not apply to Her Majesty's ships of war, or those of
any foreign Power, or to gunpowder in such quantity
as may be sufficient only for, and be on board as
ships' stores, but in no case to exceed the weight of
fifty pounds.
37. All gunpowder shall be landed from vessels in
boats properly troused over, and carrying a red dis-
tinguishing flag, under a penalty of ten pounds.

General Directions.
All persons navigating vessels are to observe the
following established nautical rules as enacted by the
Imperial "Merchant Shipping Act, 1862."

Preliminary.
Act. 1. In the following rules every steam ship
which is under sail, and not under steam, is to be
considered a sailing ship, and every steam ship which
is under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be
considered a ship under steam.

Rules concerning Lights.
Act. 2. The lights mentioned in the following
articles, and no other, shall be carried in all weathers
between sunset and sunrise.
Act. 3. Seagoing steam ships when under weigh
shall carry—
(A.) At the Foremast Head: A bright white light
so fixed as to show an uniform and unbroken light
over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the
compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on
each side of the ship, viz., from right a head to two
points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a
character as to be visible on a dark night with a clear
atmosphere at a distance of at least five miles.
(B.) On the Starboard Side: A green light, so con-
structed as to throw an uniform and unbroken light
over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the com-
pass, so fixed as to throw the light from right a head
to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side,
and of such a character as to be visible on a dark
night with a clear atmosphere at a distance of at least
two miles.
(C.) On the Port Side: A red light, so constructed
as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an
arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so
fixed as to throw the light from right a head to two
points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a
character as to be visible on a dark night with a clear
atmosphere at a distance of at least two miles.
(D.) The said green and red side lights shall be
fitted with inboard screens projecting at least three
feet forward from the light, so as to prevent these
lights from being seen across the bow.
Act. 4. Steam ships, when towing other ships, shall
carry two bright white mast-head lights vertically in
addition to their side lights, so as to distinguish them
from other steam ships. Each of these mast-head
lights shall be of the same construction and character
as mast-head lights which other steam ships are
required to carry.
Act. 5. Sailing ships under weigh or being towed
shall carry the same lights as steam ships under weigh,
with the exception of the white mast-head lights,
which they shall never carry.
Act. 6. Whenever, as in the case of small vessels
during bad weather, the green and red lights cannot
be fixed, these lights shall be kept on deck on their
respective sides of the vessel ready for instant exhibi-
tion, and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels,
be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient
time to prevent collision, in such a manner as to make
them most visible, and so that the green light shall
not be seen on the port side, nor the red light on the
starboard side.
To make the use of these portable lights more
certain and easy, they shall each be painted outside,
with the colour of the light they respectively contain,
and shall be provided with suitable sceens.
Act. 7. Ships, whether steam ships or sailing ships,
when at anchor in roadsteads or fairways, shall,
between sunset and sunrise, exhibit, where it can best
be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet
above the hull, a white light in a globular lantern of
eight inches in diameter, and so constructed as to
show a clear uniform and unbroken light, visible all