2. Harbour Masters’ Fees may be levied for any service performed by a Harbour Master under the said Act or under these Regulations, at the rate of one penny per ton of the vessel in respect of which the service is performed.

3. All vessels having Mails on board are, on approaching the anchorage, to hoist a White Flag at the fore-mast-head, and to keep the same flying until the Mails are taken out of the vessel.

4. The Master of every vessel shall anchor or moor where the Harbour Master 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.

5. 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. Any master offending against this Regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

6. 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.

7. No boat shall go within fifty yards, nor shall any person go on board of any vessel entering any port, except those duly authorised by, and such reporters for the press as hold a written authority from Government; nor shall any person quit the vessel so entering any port before the same 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.

8. All vessels are to unshot their guns before they anchor, and no guns or fire-arms, except in self-defence, or in cases of distress, or mail steamers announcing arrival and departure, 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.

9. 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.

10. 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 decked vessels must have at least one man on board by day and by night, under a penalty not exceeding Five 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 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 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 such Justice shall direct, and for causing such vessel, or boat, baulk of timber, or other bulky article, to be sold, and out of the money arising from such sale may pay the charges of such clearing or removal, as the case may be, paying the surplus to the Harbour Master, to be accounted for by him.

15. 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, provided that no such penalty shall together exceed the sum of Twenty Pounds.

16. It shall be competent at any time for the Harbour Master, or a person deputed by him, to order any ship, lighter, boat, or timber to be removed from or to any part of the Harbour, whenever such removal shall in his opinion, for the general accommodation of the shipping, be proper. And any person who shall fail to obey such order, or otherwise offend against this regulation, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

17. No vessel, not being a mail steamer, shall be unmoored on Sunday from her anchorage, and no work is to be done on board any vessel in Harbour on Sundays (except such as may be necessary for the cleanliness and safety of the vessel) without the express permission in writing of the Harbour Master, under a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

BALLAST.

18. No rubbish or filth is to be landed on any lands belonging to the Crown, except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out, and any person offending against this regulation shall incur a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

19. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, or filth is to be thrown into the Harbour, but is to be deposited at any place the Harbour Master may direct, and any person offending against this regulation shall incur a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

20. Any person removing shingles, stone, or any part of the soil below high water mark, without permission from the Harbour Master, or in the absence of the Harbour Master a Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

21. Proper tarpaulins are to be used in discharging or taking in ballast, coals, rubbish, gravel, earth, or filth, so as effectually to prevent any part thereof falling overboard, and no ballast is to be taken on board or discharged from any vessel after dusk, under a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

LIGHTERS AND BOATS.

22. No lighter or boat when detained shall anchor in the channel between Acheron Head and the Quarantine Island, nor in the middle of any fair-way, but shall anchor within the bays abreast of the aforesaid channel, and close over on either side of any fair-way, under a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.