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the Harbour Master, with a view to the
safety and interest of the whole shipping;
and any master or other person offending
against this regulation shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

34. Any anchor, kedge, or cable slipped,
    cut, or parted from, must be weighed within
    twenty-four hours, or as soon thereafter
    as the Harbour Master may direct: Where
    a sufficient buoy with buoy-rope shall have
    been attached, the penalty for a breach of
    this regulation shall be a sum not exceeding twenty pounds; and where no buoy
    with buoy-rope shall have been attached,
    such penalty shall not exceed fifty pounds.

35. If said anchor, kedge, or cable be
    not weighed by the owner or master of the
    vessel from which the same has been
    slipped or cut or has parted within such
    reasonable time as may be fixed by the
    Magistrate awarding the penalty aforesaid,
    at the time of hearing the information or
    complaint, it may be weighed by the Harbour Master at the risk and expense of the
    master or owner of said vessel.

36. After a vessel has been unloaded
    and sufficiently ballasted, it will be at the
    option of the Harbour Master to moor her
    out clear of the shipping to make room for
    vessels requiring berths to unload.

37. In the performance of any such
    service by the Harbour Master or his
    duty, the master of the vessel and the
    crew thereof are required to give and afford
    to such Harbour Master or deputy all possible aid and assistance to effect the same;
    and in effecting any such service, or any
    other service in the execution of his duty,
    the Harbour Master or his deputy is empowered to make fast and attach any rope
    or other tackle to any other vessel, and if
    there is no crew on board of the vessel to
    be moved, or the crew thereof refuse or fail
    to aid and assist as aforesaid, or if the crew,
    or tackle, or quantity of ballast on board
    such vessel is not sufficient to enable the
    Harbour Master or his deputy to effect such
    removal, he is empowered to hire and employ such other assistance and tackle, and
    to purchase and put on board such vessel,
    such other quantity of ballast as to him
    seems requisite at the cost or charges of
    the master or owner of such vessel, and
    such cost and charges such master or
    owner is required to pay to the Harbour
    Master or his deputy, to be accounted for
    to the proper authorities; and if any person,
    without the consent or authority of
    the Harbour Master or his deputy, cuts or
    casts off any such rope or tackle, so made
    fast and attached to any vessel as aforesaid
    or refuses to assist the Harbour Master
    or interferes with him in the performance
    of his duty or otherwise or in any other
    manner infringes this regulation, such
    person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

38. Into vessels when discharged in
    whole or in part in open roadsteads, there
    shall be bound to be taken from day to
    day such quantity of ballast as shall suffice
    to keep them in fair sea-going trim, to the

satisfaction of the Harbour Master, in case
of their being compelled to put to sea; and
any master neglecting to comply with this
regulation shall for every such offence be
liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds.

39. The Harbour Master or any deputy
    of the Harbour Master, is empowered to
    take such means and to give such orders
    and directions as he may deem necessary
    for the purpose of preventing risk or accident, confusion or over-crowding of boats
    alongside of vessels, and any person wilfully
    disobeying any orders so given, shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding five
    pounds.

40. Any person obstructing or impeding
    the navigation of any channel, river, inlet,
    or creek, or obstructing any landing place,
    by any vessel, cable, boat, warp, or other
    article, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding ten pounds; and in case such
    obstruction or impediment be not removed
    when ordered by the Harbour Master, or
    pilot, or any other lawfully appointed officer of the port, the Harbour Master or
    pilot, may remove, cast off or cut any such
    obstruction.

41. It shall be competent for the Harbour
    Master or a person deputed by him
    to order that any vessel, lighter, boat, or
    timber, be removed from any berth alongside any wharf, or from any anchorage to
    any part of the harbour, whenever such
    removal shall in his opinion be proper for
    the general accommodation of the shipping.
    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.

42. If any vessel or boat be sunk,
    stranded, or run on shore, or if any baulk
    of timber or other bulky article be in the
    water in any port or harbour, and if the
    master of such vessel, or owner or part
    owner, or charterer or hirer thereof, or the
    person who shall have been in charge of
    such vessel or boat at the time of the sinking, stranding, or running on shore thereof,
    or the owner of such timber or bulky
    article, or the person who placed put or
    threw such timber or bulky article in the
    water, or the master of the vessel or boat
    from which such timber or other article
    may have fallen into the water shall not
    clear the port or harbour of such vessel,
    timber, or article as the case may be, within
    such time as the Harbour Master or
    other officer of the port shall require, by
    notice in writing, every such person shall
    be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty
    pounds; and every such person shall be
    liable to a further penalty not exceeding
    fifty pounds for every period of twenty-four
    hours after the expiration of the first
    twenty-four hours after the expiration of
    the time fixed in such notice, that he shall
    permit such vessel, boat, timber, or article
    to remain unremoved.

43. There must be at all times on board
    any vessel at anchor in any port, with the
    undermentioned exceptions, a sufficient