60 COLONIAL ORDINANCES.
Ship or Vessel, shall wilfully let fall or throw into the Harbour
or Waters aforesaid, or in any other manner convey away from
any Ship, Boat, or Vessel, Wharf, Quay, or Landing-place, any
such Article, or who shall be accessory to any such Offence ;
and it shall be lawful for any Constable to take any such Offender
into Custody, and to seize and detain any Boat in which such
Person shall be found, or out of which any Article shall be so
let fall, thrown, or conveyed away.
4. Every Person who for the Purpose of protecting or
preventing any thing whatsoever from being lawfully seized
within the said Colony or in the Harbour or Waters thereof, on
Suspicion of its being stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained ,
or of preventing the same from being produced or made to serve
as Evidence concerning any Felony or Misdemeanour committed
or supposed to have been committed within the said Colony or
in the Waters thereof, shall frame or cause to be framed any
Bill of Parcels containing any False Statement in regard to the
Name or Abode of any alleged Vender, the Quantity or Quality
of any such thing, the Place whence or the Conveyance by which
the same was furnished, the Price agreed upon or charged for the
same, or any other Particular, knowing such Statement to be
false, or who shall fraudulently produce such Bill of Parcels,
knowing the same to have been fraudulently framed .
5. Every Person who shall, within the said Colony or in
the Harbour or Waters thereof, bore, pierce, break, cut, open, or
otherwise injure, any Cask, Box, or Package containing Wine,
Spirits, or other Liquors on board any Ship, Boat, or Vessel, or
in or upon any Warehouse, Wharf, Quay, or Bank, with intent
feloniously to steal or otherwise unlawfully obtain any Part of
the Contents thereof, or who shall unlawfully drink or wilfully
spill or allow to run to waste any Part of the Contents thereof.
6. Every Person who shall, within the said Colony or in
the Harbour or Waters thereof, wilfully cause to be broken,
pierced, started, cut, torn , or otherwise injured, any Cask, Chest ,
Bag, or other Package containing any Goods while on board of
any Barge, Lighter, or other Craft, lying in the Harbour or
Waters aforesaid, or any Quay, Creek, Wharf, or Landing-place
adjacent to the same, or on the Way to or from any Warehouse,
with intent that the Contents of such Package or any Part
thereof may be spilled or dropped from such Package.
Superintendents and VII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That any Superin-
Inspectors may board
Vessels. tendent or Inspector belonging to the Police Force shall have Power
by virtue of his Office to enter at all times, with such Constables as
he shall think necessary, as well by Night as by Day, into and upon
every Ship, Boat, or other Vessel (not being then actually employed
in Her Majesty's service) lying in the Harbour or Waters aforesaid,
and into every Part of such Vessel, for the purpose of inspecting and
upon occasion directing the Conduct of any Constable who may be
stationed on board of any such Vessel, and of inspecting and observing
the Conduct of all other Persons who shall be employed on board of
any such Vessel in or about the lading or unlading thereof, as the
case may be, and for the purpose of taking all such Measures as may
be necessary for providing against Fire or other Accidents, and
preserving Peace and good Order on board of any such Vessel, and
for