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MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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onths. Any constable may take into custody any person offending against paragraph (b) of this sub-section, and may seize and detain any vessel which such person is found or out of which any article is let fall, or conveyed away. It shall be lawful for the master or other person in charge of any ship to take into custody and deliver up forthwith to a constable any person offending against paragraph (d) of this sub-section. Unless and until other regulations are made, the regulations in Table N of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be the regulations referred to in paragraph (f) of this sub-section.
(2) In the following cases; that is to say,-
(a) if any steam-launch, junk, or other vessel is found alongside of any public wharf or landing-place (except while taking on board or landing passengers or cargo), or lying off the same so as to prevent the free access of other vessels thereto; or
(b) if any lighter, junk, or boat is moored or at anchor at a distance of less than one hundred yards from low water mark of such part of the Colony as may be declared by regulation to be made by the Governor-in-Council, between the hours of nine o'clock at night and gun-fire in the morning: (Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to any lighter, junk, or boat moored or at anchor alongside of any private wharf with the consent of the owner thereof),
the owner, master, or other person in charge of such steam-launch, lighter, junk, boat, or other vessel shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months.
(3) Except as is hereinbefore provided by section 25 (3) or except in case of ships of war, no cannon, gun, firearm, or firework of any description shall be discharged, without the sanction of the Harbour Master, within such portions of the waters of the Colony, as the Governor may from time to time by regulations prescribe, from any ship, junk, or boat, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars: Provided that, unless and until other regulations are made, the regulations in Table O of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall apply.
Removal of Obstructions.
Firearm not to be used except in certain cases.
27. The Harbour Master may, by written notice, require any person to remove, within reasonable time to be specified in such notice, any obstruction, whether floating, submerged, or sunk, in the waters of the Colony, caused by such person or belonging to him or in his charge or keeping; and if such person fails to remove the obstruction within the specified time, the Harbour Master shall cause the obstruction to be removed.
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