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Any breach of this chapter punishable by fine, &c. [Ordinance I of 1862, sec. 29.]
Interpretation clause. [Ordinance 17 of 1873, sec. 2.]
Power to erect lighthouses, &c. [Ibid, sec. 8.]
Power to raise necessary funds by public loan. [Ibid, sec. 4.]
Power to advance funds out of the Colonial Treasury. [Ibid, sec. 5.]
Light dues.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
Powers of Magistrates.
32. Where no penalty is specially attached by this chapter to the breach or infringement of any provision herein contained, the same shall be punishable by a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and in default of payment thereof, imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding one month.
CHAPTER II.
Lighthouses, Buoys, or Beacons.
33. In the construction of this chapter, the term "lighthouses" shall, in addition to the ordinary meaning of the word, include lightships and all floating and other lights exhibited for the guidance of ships; and the terms "buoys and beacons" shall include all other marks and signs of the sea.
2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to erect and maintain within the Colony such lighthouses, buoys, or beacons as the Governor in Council shall think necessary to be exhibited for the guidance of ships.
3. It shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, with the assent of the Legislative Council, to raise by way of public loan, upon the security of the general revenues of the Colony, such sums of money as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and every loan so raised shall be a charge upon the said Colonial revenue.
4. It shall be lawful for the Governor, in the meanwhile, with such assent as aforesaid, to order the payment, by way of temporary advance, out of any monies for the time being in the Colonial Treasury, of such sums of money arising from the general revenues of the Colony, as may be required for the purposes aforesaid: Provided always that all sums of money so advanced out of the general revenue of the Colony, shall be repaid into the Treasury out of the sums which may be raised by way of loan under the provisions in that behalf herein before contained.
[The provisions of these sub-sections are extended to the Gap Rock Lighthouse by Ordinance No. 35 of 1889.]
Light Dues.
34. The owner or master of every ship which enters the waters of [Ibid, sec. 6.] the Colony, shall pay such dues in respect of the said lighthouses, buoys, or beacons as may, from time to time, be fixed by order of the Governor
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