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landed, or forfeit a sum not exceeding
ten pounds.

25. All Gunpowder so landed to be packed in barrels, containing not more than one hundred weight each, closely joined and hooped without any iron about the packages, and so secured that no portion of the Gunpowder be in danger of being scattered in the passage, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

26. Previous to the delivery of any Gunpowder so stored, fees as per Schedule B shall be first paid.

Note.—Henry St. Hill, Esq., Resident Magistrate, is specially authorised, in accordance with the provisions of the Arms Importation Ordinance, Session 6, No. 1, to prevent the landing of Powder by Masters of Vessels. The penalty for landing Gunpowder (and also Arms or other warlike stores) without a licence is any sum not exceeding £500.

The Harbour

27. 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, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

28. No timber or any bulky article is to be left on any public Wharf or landing place under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

29. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, or filth, is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat, but is to be landed at any place the Harbour Master may direct, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

30. Any person removing, wilfully injuring, or destroying any Buoy, Beacon, or Sea Mark, shall forfeit a sum of twenty pounds.

31. Any person throwing a dead animal into the harbour (within the limits of the anchorage) without attaching to it sufficient weight to sink it, is liable to a penalty of not more than twenty nor less than five shillings.

32. Vessels, unless specially permitted in writing by the Harbour Master, are prohibited from firing guns between the hours of sunset and sunrise and on the Sabbath (except in cases of distress), under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

33. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells, or any part of the soil below high-water mark (except where the water frontage has been given by the New Zealand Company to their purchasers) without permission from the Harbour Master, or in the absence of the Harbour Master the Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

34. The third part of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854" has been brought into operation in New Zealand as far as applicable.

Pilots’ Licence.

By virtue of the power vested in me, you are hereby authorised and directed to act as pilot for the Port of Wellington, and you are enjoined to use your best skill and knowledge in all duties appertaining to that office, strictly conforming to the Regulations of the Harbour aforesaid, and obeying such orders and instructions as you may from time to time receive from me.

Given under my hand this day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ___ at Government House, Auckland, New Zealand.

SCHEDULE A.

Declaration.

I, A B, of the ___ do solemnly declare that I have delivered all public despatches, letters, parcels, newspapers, and all Post Office mails and letters, both in parcels and loose, which were on board my vessel.

Signature of Master.

Witness.

SCHEDULE B.

For each and every barrel or package containing 50 lbs. of Gunpowder and upwards, for any period not exceeding six weeks... £0 10 0
Ditto, ditto, above six weeks per week... 0 0 2

For each and every barrel or package containing less than 50 lbs. for any period not exceeding six weeks... 0 0 6
Ditto, ditto, above six weeks per week... 0 0 1

II.—QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

1. The Master of every Vessel arriving in the Harbour which shall be deemed by the Harbour Master to be liable to quarantine, shall, on being directed so to do by the Harbour Master cause the same to be anchored in the Quarantine ground appointed for the purpose.