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3. 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.

4. No boat shall go alongside of any vessel entering any Port, except those duly authorised by Government, before the vessel is properly secured at her anchorage, and has been declared free by the Immigration or other proper Officer, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

5. Masters of vessels arriving from Ports beyond the Australasian Colonies are not allowed to let their steerage passengers leave their vessels for the purpose of landing at Dunedin after twelve o’clock noon during the months of April, May, June, July, August, and September; nor after two o’clock, p.m., during the remaining months, unless with the consent of the Immigration Officer, under a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

6. All vessels are to unshot their guns before they anchor, and no guns or firearms, except in self-defence or in cases of distress, are to be discharged from any vessel or from any boat unless permission in writing has been obtained from the Harbour Master, and any person who shall offend against this regulation (including as well any sportsman or any other offender), shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

7. All Masters or other persons in charge of vessels are immediately to strike their top-gallant yards and masts, to have their jib and spanker booms rigged close in, and moor or clear hawse, when called upon by the Harbour Master or other competent authority to do so, and are generally to follow such directions as the state of the weather, the crowded condition of the Port or River, or other circumstances may render necessary or expedient in the judgment of the Harbour Master, with a view to the safety and interest of the whole shipping, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

8. All Masters of Vessels exceeding one hundred tons burthen lying in the Harbour shall cause a sufficient guard or watch to be kept on deck both by day and night, of one man if the vessel is under three hundred tons, and of two men if over three hundred tons burthen; all other descriptions of deck vessels must have at least one man on board by day and by night, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

9. In the event of an alarm of fire in the Harbour, each vessel in the Harbour shall send to where the fire is, her buckets, axes, mauls, and whatever else she may have on board that may be useful in such cases; also as many men to assist in extinguishing the fire as can be spared, such men and means to be under the command of one of the Officers of the vessel to which they belong, and to be placed at the disposition of the Harbour Master, whose lawful order they shall be bound to execute, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

10. Smoking vessels in the Harbour for destruction of vermin is prohibited, without permission from the Harbour Master, under whose inspection, or that of some other person duly authorised by him in that behalf, the operation is to be performed, and after proper precautions shall have been taken for the extinction of fire in the event of accident; and any person who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. No wreck is to be left standing in any part of the Harbour, but must be conveyed on shore above high water mark; and any wreck so left, after notice given by the Harbour Master for the removal of such wreck, may be removed by order of the Harbour Master at the risk and expense of the owner, who shall be further liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

14. 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, upon being required so to do by notice in writing under the hand of the Harbour Master or any Justice of the Peace, within such 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, upon the complaint of the Harbour Master, or any other person, may issue his warrant for the clearing of the Harbour or removing of such vessel, boat, baulk of timber, or other bulky article, in such manner as