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Refusing to pay fare.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
(g) hires any vessel and refuses or neglects on deinand by the person in charge thereof to pay the lawful fare,
such person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 months.
Any constable may take into custody any person offending against paragraph (b) of this sub-section, and may seize and detain any boat in which such person is found or out of which any article is let fall, thrown, 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 any constable any person offending against para- graph (d) of this sub-section.
(2) In the following cases,
Obstruction of wharf. jinproper
(a) if any launch, junk, or other vessel shall be found alongside nooring, etc. any public wharf or landing place (not being engaged in taking on board or landing passengers or cargo) or alongside any vessel, private wharf, or landing place (unless with the permission of the master or owner thereof), or lying off any vessel, wharf, or landing place, public or private, so as to obstruct the free access of other vessels thereto; or
Pirentme not
to be used
except in
(b) if any lighter, junk, or boat is moored or at anchor at a dis- tance of less than 100 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 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. Provided that nothing herein contamed 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 thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 months.
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(8) Except as is provided by section 25 (3), or except in cases of ships of war, or ships carrying nails in respect of the mail signal certain cases gun, 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 by regulations prescribe, from any ship, junk, or boat, under a penalty not exceeding 200 dollars.
Table 0.
Harbour
Master may
remove
obstruction.
Removal of Obstructions-
27. The Harbour Master may, by written notice, require any person to remove, within a reasonable time to be specified in such
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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 it to be removed, and may recover the expenses of removal from the person named in the notice; or, if no such person can be found, the obstruction, when removed by the Harbour Master, may be sold to defray the expense of such removal.
Moorings and Buoys.
28. (1) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to place in the Government waters of Colony such Government moorings and buoys as may be borings. approved by the Governor, and to allow the use thereof on such terms and conditions and for such fees as the Governor-in-Council may direct.
Tabis 0 (a).
(2) No person shall keep or place moorings or buoys in the waters Private of the Colony except with the sanction of the Harbour Master, and except on the conditions prescribed by the Governor-in-Council under sub-section (5) of this section. Such moorings and buoys shall be of such nature and construction as the Harbour Master may approve.
(3) No person shall moor or anchor bulks or vessels of like des- Mooring of cription within the waters of the Colony except with the sanction hulks, etc.
of the Harbour Master, and except on such conditions and subject
to the payment of such fees as the Governor-in-Council may direct.
(4) Moorings and buoys sanctioned by the Harbour Master under Use of sub-section (2) of this section shall not be made use of by any ship mooringa. other than the ships of the person to whom such sanction has been granted, except with the consent of such person or by the direction of the Harbour Master; and the master of any ship using any such moorings and buoys without such consent or direction shall be liable to a penalty of 20 dollars for every day or part of a day during which be so uses such moorings and buoys, after he has been requested fo remove therefrom.
(5) The Governor-in-Council shall have power to make rules re- Rules. gulating the terms, conditions, and fees for any of the purposes mentioned in this section.
• As amended by No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.
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