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29. Any person obstructing or impeding
    the navigation of any channel, river, inlet,
    or creek, or obstructing any public landing
    place, by placing a vessel, cable, boat, warp,
    or other article in the way, shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; and,
    in case any person causing such obstruction
    or impediment will not remove, or cause to
    be removed, the same, when ordered by the
    Harbour Master or Pilot, the Harbour
    Master or Pilot may cast off or cut such
    obstruction.

30. The owner, or part owner, 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 that purpose in such notice, shall,
    for every such offence, forfeit a penalty not
    exceeding twenty pounds, and a further and
    separate penalty of twenty pounds each and
    every week, or portion of a week, after the
    time named in such notice, until such vessel,
    boat, baulk of timber, or other bulky article,
    shall be removed or cleared away; 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
    the 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, and penalties incurred by the
    refusal or neglect to remove or clear the
    same, paying the surplus to the Harbour
    Master, to be accounted for as fees collected
    by him.

31. No wreck is to be left stranded in
    any part of the Harbour, but must be conveyed on shore above high-water mark; and
    if any wreck is so left, the owner thereof
    shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    five pounds each day, or part of a day,
    during which such wreck shall be so left.

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; in the
    absence of the Harbour Master the Resident
    Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
    ten pounds.

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

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

36. 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.

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.

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 0 0 1

Printed at the “Advertiser” Office, Willis Street.