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and pilotage shall have been satisfacto-
rily secured.

8. Pilots refusing or neglecting their
   duty, to forfeit a sum not exceeding
   £20.

9. The Master of every vessel shall
   anchor or moor where the Harbour
   Master or Pilot may direct, and he
   shall not unmoor or quit the anchorage
   until notice be given in writing at the
   Harbour Master’s office, or forfeit a
   sum not exceeding £5.

10. The rate of pilotage shall be 3s.
    per foot in Harbour, and 1s. per foot
    in any outer Roadstead.

11. The master of any vessel ne-
    glecting to heave-to and take on board
    the first duly licensed Pilot who shall
    offer his services, or refusing to ac-
    cept of his services when offered, shall
    be liable to the same amount of pilot-
    age as if the services of such Pilot had
    been accepted, unless the Master of
    such vessel is provided with a certifi-
    cate of exemption (which may be
    granted by the Governor of the colony
    or by the Superintendent of the Pro-
    vince) and has flown the exemption
    flag at the main from the time of his
    approaching within two leagues of any
    harbour in the Province, such exemp-
    tion flag to consist of not less than six
    breadths of white bunting.

12. Any person who shall board any
    vessel arriving from a foreign port, be-
    fore such vessel shall have been boarded
    by some person duly authorised in that
    behalf, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding £5.

POST OFFICE AND MAILS.

13. The Master of every vessel shall
    give notice at the Post Office, at least
    twenty-four hours before clearing at
    the Custom House, except Masters of
    Coasters, who are exempted from this
    regulation, unless when bound from
    one port of entry to another, or forfeit
    a sum not exceeding £10.

14. Every Master of a vessel is also
    to deliver to the Custom House Offi-
    cer, or other authorised person, his
    Cockets and Clearances from the last
    port, also all public despatches, letters,
    parcels, and all Post Office Mails, and
    letters, whether in parcels or loose,
    obtaining a receipt for the same; and
    repairing to the Post Office he is there
    to make a declaration as per Schedule
    B, of his having duly delivered up all
    letters as before mentioned, and is to
    produce the said declaration at the
    Custom House before making his re-

port at these places under a penalty of
a sum not exceeding £5.

GUNPOWDER.

15. The Master of every vessel ar-
    riving with Gunpowder on board, ex-
    ceeding the quantity necessary as ships’
    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 anchorage ground, or for-
    feit a sum not exceeding £20.

16. 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.

17. 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 ex-
    ceeding £10.

18. All Gunpowder so landed to be
    packed in barrels, containing not more
    than one hundred weight each, closely
    joined and hooped without any iron
    about the packages, and so secure that
    no portion of the Gunpowder be in
    danger of being scattered in the passage,
    under a penalty of any sum not ex-
    ceeding £10.

NOTE.—The principal Officer of
Customs and Harbour Masters, at dif-
ferent Ports, are specially authorised,
in accordance with the provisions of
Arms Importation Ordinance, Session
6, No 1, to permit the landing of Pow-
der by Masters of vessels.

HARBOURS.

19. No rubbish or filth is to be land-
    ed on any lands belonging to the Crown,
    except in such places as the Harbour
    Master may point out, under a penalty
    of any sum not exceeding £5.

20. No timber or any bulky article
    is to be left on any Public Wharf or
    landing place, under a penalty of any
    sum not exceeding £5.

21. No ballast, rubbish, gravel,
    earth, stone, or filth, is to be thrown
    overboard from any vessel or boat, but
    is to be landed at any place the Har-
    bour Master may direct, under a
    penalty of any sum not exceeding £20.

22. Any person removing, wilfully
    injuring, or destroying any Buoy, Bea-
    con, or Sea Mark, shall forfeit the sum
    of £20.

23. Any person throwing a dead
    animal into the Harbour, (within the
    limits of the anchorage) without at-