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every day such Pilot may be detained on board such vessel, in addition to the regular pilotage, and the Pilot shall not be compellable to take such vessel to sea until such forfeiture and penalties under this regulation shall accumulate to a larger sum than twenty pounds.

9. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty are to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

10. All vessels trading to or from the neighbouring colonies shall, upon the Master proving himself qualified, be furnished with a certificate of exemption from pilotage; but shall, in lieu thereof, pay one full pilotage inwards and outwards per annum.

11. The rate of pilotage into or out of Harbour, from or to the distance of one league from the Pilot Station, is threepence per registered ton, ten shillings per mile for every mile beyond one league from the Pilot Station, and twenty-one shillings upon each occasion that a vessel is shifted from one part of the Harbour to another.

12. The Master of any vessel neglecting to heave to and take on board the first duly licensed Pilot who shall offer his services, or refusing to accept of his services when offered, shall be liable to the same amount of pilotage as if the services of such Pilot had been accepted, unless the master of such vessel is provided with a certificate of exemption (which may be granted by the Governor of the Colony, or by the Superintendent of the Province), and shall have flown the exemption flag at the main from the time of his approach-ing within two leagues of any harbour in the Province, such exemption flag to consist of not less than six breadths of white bunting.

General Rules and Regulations.

13. 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; and any Master offending against this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

14. All vessels must have buoys and buoy ropes to their anchors to show their position, and must hoist a conspicuous light at their peak end, and keep the same burning from sunset to sunrise; or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

15. All vessels moored or at anchor are to have both cables clear, and in readiness to slack away when required; and any Master offending against this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

16. Pilots shall not be bound to take vessels to sea on Sunday.

17. Any person who shall board any vessel arriving from a foreign port, before such vessel shall have been boarded by

some person duly authorised in that behalf, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

18. No timber or any other article shall be left on any public jetty, wharf, or landing-place, or the approach thereto, for a longer period than six hours; and any person offending against this regulation shall incur a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; and it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, when in his opinion the public convenience requires it, at any time during or after the expiry of such period, to cause such timber or other article immediately to be removed from any such jetty, wharf, or landing-place, or approach thereto, to any place he may think proper, at the expense and risk of the owner, or his agent, or the person in charge of such timber or other article.

19. Any person removing, wilfully injuring, or destroying any buoy, beacon, or sea mark, shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

20. Any person drowning any animal in or throwing a dead animal into the Harbour, or placing any dead animal below high water mark, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to an additional penalty of one pound per 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 shall together exceed the sum of twenty pounds.

21. No pitch, tar, resin, 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.

22. Any anchor or kedge slipped, parted, or cut from, if not weighed within twenty-four hours, may be weighed by order of the Harbour Master, at the risk and expense of the owner; and when no buoy has been attached, the anchor or kedge shall be forfeited.

23. 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.

24. 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 vessels or boats, or remove such baulk of timber, or other article, upon being required so to do, by notice in writing under the hand of the Harbour Master or any Justice of the Peace, within a reasonable time as may be mentioned for the purpose in such notice, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and any Justice