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and no vessel shall commence discharging excepting such Manifest or Boat note has been delivered.

13. Vessels to discharge only during Custom House hours as required by the officers of H.M. Customs.

14. No timber will be allowed to be landed on the Wharf, upon any consideration whatever.

15. Masters of vessels are responsible for the good condition and safe custody of goods until they have obtained receipt for the same from the Jetty Clerk in attendance, and their responsibility ceases only on receipt of such document, according to its tenor.

16. All Masters of vessels will be required in future, in loading their craft, to place bond and dutiable goods distinct from free goods, so that when required by the officers of H.M. Customs they may be discharged separately.

Draymen.

17. No goods to be delivered to any drayman, except upon the order in writing of the consignees, or his representative.

18. All draymen will be required to give receipts for the goods they remove, which will be handed to the consignee in exchange for his receipt in full which will be held by the Wharfinger as his quittance for the goods.

19. In all cases of dispute, precedence of loading will be taken by Priority of arrival.

General.

20. All receipts to be written in Ink and on the prescribed forms.

21. No cargo will be allowed to be loaded or any vessel until the Master of such vessel shall have rendered to the Treasury Office an account (as taken upon freight), of all goods by that vessel consigned to each consignee, and any master or his agent sending in a false return of the same will be liable to prosecution.

22. No goods will be delivered to consignees or their orders, unless the same be endorsed by the agents of the vessel from which the goods are landed, or accompanied by their order or endorsed Bill of Lading.

23. Consignees will thoroughly understand that the Government will not be in any way responsible for the internal condition of the Packages. A note will be taken of the apparent external condition, but the Government will not be responsible for the condition of any goods on delivery to the consignees, except it shall be made to appear that such damage took place while the goods were in the charge of the Officers of the Jetty and by their default.

24. All goods not called for within three hours after landing, or if not applied for before 4 p.m. will be placed in the Lock-up Wharehouse, and will not be delivered until the following day, when double Jetty Dues will be charged upon them, which must be paid into the office before the goods are delivered, the clerk’s receipt for the extra dues being the warehouseman’s authority to deliver up the goods.

25. All damaged goods, or goods which have the appearance of damage, breakage or leakage will be placed in the Lock-up Warehouse, and notice posted upon the board to the effect when surveys, &c., may be held upon them, at the option of the consignee, for which on those goods which are submitted to survey, double Jetty dues will be levied, and upon those which are not surveyed, half dues in excess, consignees bearing expense of repacking and cooperage.

26. No person will be allowed upon the Platform, excepting the consignees of Goods and the draymen whose drays are loading, and any unauthorised person found handling the contents of Packages open for examination will be given into the custody of the Police.

NATHL. CHALMERS,
Deputy Superintendent.

(Republished from Otago Provincial Government Gazette, No. 275, 11th Nov. 1863.)

PROCLAMATION.

Admitting Cattle into the Province of Otago from a portion of the County of Mornington in the Colony of Victoria.

By the Honorable John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

I, JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date hereof, until further notice, that portion of the County of Mornington, in the Colony of Victoria, hereinafter described, shall not be deemed an infected district within the meaning and for the purposes of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861." And that I do hereby rescind the Proclamation of the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, bearing date the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, so far as the same relates to the before-mentioned portion of the Colony of Victoria, that is to say: All that area commencing at the mouth of a creek in Western...