1
118
Maintenance.
Inspection.
I'se by others than
owner.
Liability to dues.
Time of payment.
River steamers.
+
Places of
officers and
men when →xplosives received or
discharged.
Prohibition
of use of charcoal, etc.
Prohibition of smoking. rtc.
Discharge of
cargo.
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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.
[as. 82 (1) & 48 (8).]
LIGHT OR OTHER DOES. 1. All ships which enter the waters of the Colony, except British and foreign ships of war, 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.
[s, 30 (12).]
RULES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER AND EXPLOSIVES IN THE GOVERNMENT GUNPOWDER DEPOTA.
1. The officers and men belonging to a Government Gunpowder Depôt and to every vessel receiving, or discharging explosives out of or into such depot, shall, uuless couse is shewn to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, be at such dépôt sud on board such vessel.
2. During the time that explosives are being received or discharged, no person shall, in a depót or on board of any vessel receiving or dis- charging the same, or engaged in transshipment 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 a depôt or on hoard of any vessal receiving or discharging explosives or engaged in transshipment thereof, nor shall any person in a depôt or on board of any such vessel be employed about any work other than and except the receipt, discharge, or transshipment aforesaid.
4. The cargo of every vessel employed in the transshipment of ex- plosives shall, on her arrival at the depôt, be immediately discharged by the owners or consignees of auch cargo and shall be then delivered
*As amended by G. N. 2nd October, 1908.
+ As amended by G. N. 189 of 1908 and No. 21 of 1912.
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into the depôt, and if the owner or consignee of such cargo fails in doing so, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or his deputy to have the same discharged and delivered into the depot at the expense of the said owner or consignes.
5. When explosives are being received into or discharged out of the Attendance depôt, the owner or the consignee of the same shall attend at the of owner or depôt, or shall send a responsible representative instead, and any ques. consignee receipt or tion which may arise as to the number or weight of cases or kegs discharge of received at or delivered out of the depôt shall be decided at the time explosives. by such owner or his representative, and the officer in charge of the depôt, who shall if necessary refer the same to the Harbour Master.
6. No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Harbour Bestriction Master, open any package in a depôt.
on opening of packages.
7. With reference to section 36 (10) of this Ordinance prohibiting the Mode of keeping of more than 20 fbs. of gunpowder on land, it is hereby directed keeping gun- that such gunpowder shall not be kept in any package other than one powder for composed of zinc, copper, or brass, and that the said package shall be private use. placed in a safe and convenient position beyond the reach of fire, or sccidents from lights, etc.
8. During the time any explosives are waterborne in the waters of Protection of the Colony on board of any vessel, either for the purpose of, or in the waterborne course of, carriage, landing, shipment, transshipment, or movement explosives. from one place to another, or otherwise, they shall be protected either by being stowed under hatches, or by being covered with serviceable tarpaulins, and no fires or naked lights shall be made or used on board any such vessel unless the said explosives are stowed under hatches, and the said vessel shall display a red flag, and, unless intending to leave the waters of the Colony, shall proceed without delay or inter- ruption or anchoring to her destination.
Table R. [65. 38 (12) & 43 (8).] SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER AND SAFETY CARTRIDGES IN THE GOVERNMENT DEPOTS. Packages containing 25 lbs. and loss of loose gunpowder.... 7 cents Packages containing 25 lbs. and less of gunpowder in tins, 10 Packages containing more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs.
of loost gunpowder, .... Packages containing more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs.
of gunpowder in tins,.............
27
כל
14
»
16
+
Packages containing 50 lbs, and less than 75 lbs. of gun-
powder in tins,
Packages containing 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. of loose
gunpowder,
20
22
77
Packages containing 75 lbs. and less than 100 Ibe, of loose
gunpowder,
26
11
Packages containing 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. of gun-
powder in tins,
* As amended by G. N. 189 of 1908.
"J
a month or fraction of a month.
Gunpowder
loose and in
ting.
582