MERCHANT SHIPPING.
Table O (A).
No. 10 of 1899.
1033
[ss. 28 (5) & 43 (3).]
PRIVATE BUOYS AND MOORINGS.
1. A monthly rental of $5 shall be payable half-yearly in advance for each buoy and the moorings thereof sanctioned by the Harbour Master. No fees shall be chargeable on buoys and moorings used solely for warping purposes, provided such buoys and moorings shall not, under any pretence whatever, be used for any other purpose than warping.
2. All moorings and buoys shall be kept and maintained in good condition and in proper position by the owners thereof and at their own expense.
3. It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to inspect and require repairs if necessary to be effected to any buoys and moorings and to require the same if necessary to be relaid and removed.
4. It shall be lawful for the owner of any buoy and moorings so sanctioned as aforesaid to permit other vessels to make use of the same on such terms as he may think fit.
Table P.
LIGHT OR OTHER DUES.
[ss. 32 (1) & 43 (3)].*
1. All ships which enter the waters of the Colony, except British and foreign ships of war and all vessels of less than 20 tons, shall pay the following dues, viz.:---- 2 cents per ton.
2. Such dues shall be paid either at the time of entry or at the time of clearance.
3. All river steamers which enter the waters of the Colony by day or by night, shall pay five-sixths of a cent per ton.
Table Q.
REGULATIONS FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER AND EXPLOSIVES IN THE GOVERNMENT GUNPOWDER DEPÔT.
1. The officers and men belonging to the Government Gunpowder Depôt, hereafter in this Table referred to as the Depôt, and to every vessel receiving or discharging explosives out of or into the Depôt, shall, unless cause is shown to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, be at the Depôt and on board such vessel.
2. During the time that explosives are being received or discharged, no person shall, in the Depôt or on board of any vessel receiving or discharging the same, or engaged in transhipment thereof, have or use any charcoal or other combustible matter or any fire or naked light.
3. During such time as aforesaid, no person shall smoke in the Depôt or on board of any vessel receiving or discharging explosives or engaged in transhipment thereof, nor shall any person in the Depôt or on board of any such vessel be employed about any work other than and except the receipt, discharge, or transhipment aforesaid.
4. The cargo of every vessel employed in the transhipment of explosives shall, on her arrival at the Depôt, be immediately discharged by the owners or consignees of such cargo and shall be then delivered
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.