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6. To assist the Harbor Master to ascertain the number of persons which any boat may safely carry, he shall, in addition to measuring the cubical contents, be authorised to require the person applying for a license to load its boat, and to ascertain the absolute weight of such loading.

7. Upon presentation of the certificate hereinbefore mentioned, and upon the payment of one pound to the Provincial Treasurer, he shall issue to the person named therein, and for the boat named in the said certificate, a license in the form herein after annexed.

8. But no boat shall be licensed under these Regulations unless it shall, by measurement made, be at least four feet six inches in the beam and twenty inches deep, nor unless it shall contain eighty cubic feet of space, not unless also it shall be in sound condition, properly found, and, in the opinion of the Harbor Master, suitably constructed for the safe conveyance of passengers.

9. No boat shall be licensed under these Regulations which shall not be owned by a licensed waterman, and the license of any licensed boat which shall cease to be owned by the licensed waterman to whom the license shall have been issued, shall thereby become null and void.

10. Every Waterman’s Boat License which shall be issued under these Regulations, shall, unless the same shall be suspended, or unless it shall be sooner cancelled in manner hereinafter provided, remain in force for one year from the date whereof it is longer.

11. Every licensed waterman shall, in a conspicuous place in the sternsheets or on the backboard of every boat with which he shall ply for hire, have legibly painted in letters not less than two inches long the name of the boat, the number of persons (including the crew) that the boat shall be licensed to carry in ordinary weather, and the name of the owner, and, in default thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

12. Every licensed waterman who shall take in any boat more passengers or luggage than he shall be authorised for such boat, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding twenty pounds.

13. It shall be lawful for any licensed waterman’s boat partly or wholly loaded with passengers or cargo or luggage, and for the purpose of these Regulations every one hundred and fifty pounds weight of cargo or luggage shall be considered to be equivalent to one passenger.

14. Every licensed waterman who shall convey, or be concerned in conveying, any passenger, carry or luggage, in such a manner as to interfere with the rowing, or to endanger the life of such passenger, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding twenty pounds.

15. Every licensed waterman who shall take a boat carrying passengers into the tide rip when it shall be breaking and dangerous, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

16. If any licensed waterman shall stow, or suffer to be stowed, either any type of cargo he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

17. Every licensed waterman who shall not, when required by the Harbor Master, suffer his licensed boat or boats, and the appurtenances thereof, to be inspected, and who shall not, for that purpose, have it or them ready at the time and place which shall be appointed by the Harbor Master, and render such assistance as may be then and there required from him, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

18. If the Harbor Master, after inspecting any licensed waterman’s boat, shall deem it unseaworthy, he is hereby authorised to suspend and demand the custody of the license of such licensed waterman, and the owner of such boat shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which he shall fail to deliver up the same.

19. Every licensed waterman in charge of a licensed waterman’s boat, shall, when required by the Harbor Master, immediately by whatsoever means produce his own license and boat’s license for inspection, and, in default, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

20. Any licensed waterman who shall lend his license to any other person shall be liable to a penalty of five pounds.

21. But any licensed waterman who by sickness shall be prevented from plying, or who, possessing with the Harbor Master a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner to that effect, together with his license, be permitted to nominate a substitute in his stead, shall submit such substitute to the satisfaction of the Harbor Master that he thoroughly understands the management of a boat, the Harbor Master shall issue to him a certificate which shall authorise him to ply for hire in the conveyance of passengers for a period not exceeding one month, and such certificate may from time to time be renewed during the illness of the licensed waterman whose license shall be so deposited with the Harbor Master.

22. During the currency of every such certificate, and for the purposes of these Regulations, it shall be deemed to be a waterman’s license; and every person to whom such a certificate shall have been issued, shall be deemed to be a licensed waterman, subject to these Regulations.

23. For the purposes of these bye-laws, the harbor shall be divided into “The Ordinary Charge,” “The City Charges,” and “Outer Anchorages.”

(a) “The Ordinary Charge” shall be bounded by a straight line produced south