THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1209

Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of
the powers and authorities vested in me by "The
Rating Act, 1876," and all other powers and authori-
ties in that behalf me hereunto enabling, do hereby
order and declare that the said errors in the said
notification, and anything irregularly done in matter
of form by the Assessment Court, or the Judge
thereof, with respect to the preparation and revision
of the valuation list aforesaid for the said county,
are hereby validated; and, notwithstanding such
errors and irregularities, the said valuation list signed
by the Judge of the said Court shall be and the
same is hereby declared to be a good and valid
valuation roll for the said County of Whangarei.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Auckland Harbour Board Graving-Dock By-laws
approved.

NORMANDY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of August, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Auckland Harbour Board, acting
under delegated powers conferred by Procla-
mation of the Superintendent of the Province of
Auckland, dated the twenty-fourth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, published
in the New Zealand Gazette of eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, page three hundred and fifty-five, and
by Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one,
published in the said New Zealand Gazette of one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, page five
hundred and seventy-seven, has made the by-laws
contained at the foot hereof; and it is expedient to
approve of the same:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of all
powers and authorities vested in me by "The Marine
Act, 1867," "The Harbour Boards Act, 1870," and
"The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," or any of
them, and of every other power and authority en-
abling me, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis
of Normanby, the Governor of New Zealand, do
hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the colony, approve of the following by-
laws made by the Auckland Harbour Board:-

BY-LAWS of the Auckland Harbour Board for the
Auckland Harbour Board Graving Dock, made in
pursuance of the power vested in them, that is to
say,-

1. Every application for the use of the dock shall
   be made in writing addressed to the Secretary of the
   Board, stating the vessel's name, the master's name,
   the tonnage, length, breadth, depth of hold and
   draught of water of such vessel. Every application
   shall be duly registered in a book kept for that pur-
   pose at the offices of the Board.

2. No vessel will be allowed to enter the dock
   until the agent, master, or owner thereof has ob-
   tained a permit from the Secretary of the Board, and
   paid the entrance fee for the time being chargeable,
   which will be forfeited in case the vessel does not
   enter in turn. The permit shall be given up to the
   Dockmaster before the vessel enters the dock.

3. The dock shall be available for use according to
   priority of registration. Any vessel not arriving at
   the dock at the appointed time to enter will forfeit
   the benefit of priority, and be placed at the bottom
   of the register.

4. The Board only provides the dock, and will not
   undertake the repairs of any vessel; and any person

wishing the use of the dock will be required to make
arrangements outside of the Board for repairs, as
also for all the necessary labour and material for
such repairs.

5. The Board will not be responsible for any acci-
   dent occurring to a vessel either before being docked,
   or whilst docking, or whilst in the dock, or undock-
   ing, or leaving the dock.

6. No person will be allowed to make any repairs
   to any vessel in the dock, which can be done out of
   it, when another vessel is waiting to go in. So soon
   as the Dockmaster considers the vessel in dock is
   repaired, so far as the use of the dock is required (of
   which the Dockmaster shall be sole judge), the
   master shall at once remove such vessel from the
   dock.

7. All arrangements of the blocks, shores, or other
   appliances for the admission of the vessel into the
   dock, shall be done at the risk and expense of the
   master or owner of such vessel.

8. All damage to dock, or to the property of the
   Board, by the docking or undocking of any vessel or
   incident thereto, or by the use of any of the appli-
   ances of the Board connected with the dock, shall be
   made good by the owner or master of such vessel
   before such vessel shall leave the dock. The amount
   of such damage shall be fixed and determined by the
   Engineer of the Board. The amount of damage, and
   also all dock charges and expenses, shall be a lien on
   the vessel.

9. No person shall repair any vessel in the dock
   before six o'clock in the morning, nor after six o'clock
   in the evening, without consent of the Dockmaster,
   and all extra time thus made shall be paid for in
   proportion to the daily rate.

10. All chips, dirt, refuse, or rubbish of any sort
    arising from the repair or cleaning of any vessel
    shall from time to time, and as often as the Dock-
    master may require it, be removed from the dock and
    its vicinity, and the adjoining buildings and premises
    and the floor of the dock shall be properly swept and
    cleaned before the water is drawn to float the vessel
    out of the dock. In default thereof, the Dockmaster
    may remove such chips, dirt, refuse, or rubbish, and
    the cost of such removal shall be a charge on the
    vessel and master or owner of the vessel, as dock
    charges, in addition to the penalties hereinafter pro-
    vided.

11. The daily rate for the time being, chargeable
    for the use of the dock, shall be for every day. Part
    of a day that the vessel is in dock shall be charged as
    a whole day (not including Sundays), and the vessel,
    master, owner, or agent shall continue liable for such
    daily rate until the dock has been cleansed, all blocks,
    shores, and other appliances accounted for and re-
    placed, and all rubbish removed to the place set
    apart for that purpose by the Board.

12. The master or owner of any vessel in the dock
    shall allow the dock to be used for other vessels, and
    the caisson to be removed for such other vessels to go
    out or in, as occasion may require, if in the opinion
    of the Dockmaster there is room in the dock for such
    other vessel or vessels; and the master or owner of
    any vessel or vessels in the dock shall be wholly
    responsible for shoring and protecting such vessel
    or vessels whilst the other or others are being docked
    or undocked, and shall at his own expense do such
    acts in relation to such shoring and otherwise pro-
    tecting the vessel or vessels in the dock as the Dock-
    master may direct.

13. No person will be allowed to keep a vessel
    longer than fourteen days in the dock, except under
    special circumstances, and by or under special agree-
    ment with the Secretary.

14. Any master or person occupying the dock with
    a vessel more than fourteen days, including the day