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Boats may be searched by officers in Police boats.
Ships arriving having contagious diseases on board to report the same.
Ships to remove when ordered.
Steamers' fairway to be kept clear.
Not to make fast to or injure buoys and beacons.
Vessels to exhibit light at night.
ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1862.
Harbour Regulation.
liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars; and all boats whether private or not may and shall be subject to be stopped and examined by the Police boats, and if the person in charge of any boat does not heave to on being hailed by a Police boat or uses abusive language to the officer or persons on board of her in the execution of their duty, he shall be liable to be detained in custody until he can be brought before a Magistrate, and on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
16. Every commanding officer of any ship-of-war, or master of a merchant ship or vessel of whatsoever nation who may arrive in this harbour having small-pox or any other disease of a contagious or infectious nature on board, shall hoist the proper quarantine flag, and no communication shall be held with any other vessel or boat or with the shore, until permission be given by the Harbour Master; and the Boarding Officer on nearing such ship shall be informed of the nature of such disease that proper precautions may be taken and assistance rendered, under a penalty in any of the foregoing cases not exceeding two hundred dollars for every offence.
17. Every such commanding officer of a ship-of-war, or master of a merchant vessel, having any such disease on board, shall forthwith remove his ship to any berth which shall be pointed out by the Harbour Master, and there remain and keep the quarantine flag flying until a clean bill of health shall be granted by the Harbour Master; and shall afford free access and render every assistance to the Colonial Surgeon or other officer of health who may be directed by His Excellency the Governor to visit such ship, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars for every offence.
18. A public fairway shall be buoyed off for the passage of river and coast steamers, and no vessel or boat of any description shall be allowed to anchor within such fairway, and the master of any vessel or boat dropping anchor in, or otherwise obstructing such fairway shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars in addition to any fine otherwise leviable under this Ordinance in the case of sea-going vessels, and in the case of boats registered in the Colony to a like fine in addition to the forfeiture of register or licence if it be so adjudged by the Marine Magistrate.
19. Every master of any vessel of whatsoever description, who shall make or cause to be made fast to any of the public buoys or beacons or their moorings any rope, chain, or other gear or shall foul or in any way injure the said buoys, beacons, or moorings, shall on conviction thereof be fined a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, in addition to the cost of repairing or replacing the same. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 17 of 1873.]
20. Every master of a vessel or hulk in this harbour shall from sunset to sunrise cause to be exhibited a bright white light from the starboard foreyard arm or in the case of dismantled vessels or chops at the place where it can be best seen, and in default shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.