MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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No. 10 of 1899.
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Application
of 68.31-88
lighthouse.
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
(a) injures any lighthouse or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy or beacon, or any cables, wires, or other apparatus, either in connexion therewith or otherwise; or
(b) removes, alters, injures, or destroys any lightship, buoy, or beacon, or any cables, wares, or other apparatus, either in connexion therewith or otherwise; or
(c) rides by; makes last to, or runs foul of any lightship, buoy, or beacon,
shall, in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars.
(2) The Governor-in-Council may make regulations for the pro- tection of telegraph cables or wires, either in connexion with any lighthouse, lightship, buoy, or beacon, or otherwise.
Gap Rock Lighthouse.
34. The powers and provisions contained in sections 31 to 83, in to Gap Rock respect of lighthouses, buoys, beacons, cables, wires, or other apparatus in connexion therewith, and dues, shall equally apply to the lighthouse upon the island commonly known as the Gap Rock, and any cables, wires, and other apparatus for the purpose of tele- graphic or other communication in connexion therewith.
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Harbour
Master may
light;
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Prevention of False Lights.
35.-(1) Wherever any fire or light is burnt or exhibited at such prohibit false place or in such manner as to be liable to be mistaken for a light proceeding from a lighthouse, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to serve a notice on the owner of the place where the fire or light is burnt or exhibited or on the person having charge of such fire or light, either personally, or by delivery at the place of abode of such owner or person, or by affixing the same in some conspicuous spot near to such fire or light, and by such notice to direct such owner or person, within a reasonable time to be therein specified, to take effectual means for extinguishing or effectually screening such existing fire or light, and for preventing for the future any similar fire or light; and any owner or person who disobeys such notice shall be deemed guilty of a common nuisance, and, in addi- tion to any other penalties or liabilities of any kind thereby incurred, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.
• An amended by No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912. As amended by No. 80 of 1911 and No. 17 of 1914.
Master may
(2) If any owner or person served with such notice as aforesaid Harbour neglects, for a period of 24 hours, to extinguish or effectually screen abate fales the fire or light therein mentioned, it shall be lawful for the Harbour light. Master, by his servants or workmen, to enter into the place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to extinguish such fire or light, doing no unnecessary damage; and all expenses incurred by the Harbour Master in such extinction may be recovered from such owner or person as aforesaid.
PART VIII.
IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.
26. (1) The Governor may provide, at the expense of the Colony, Vessels and all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder and buildings
for storage of other explosives.
explosives.
(2) Such vessels or buildings shall be termed "The Government Government Gunpowder Gunpowder Depôt," and shall be under the control and manage- Dapat ment of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may be received from the Governor; and such vessels or buildings shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may deem expedient.
anchor within
(3) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel to anchor Vessel not to within 500 yards of any Government Gunpowder Depôt, except by 500 yards of permission of the Harbour Master.
Depôt.
Ataster to be
particulars of
(4) The master, agent, or consignee of every vessel arriving in Turbour the Colony, having on board thereof us cargo any quantity of gun- fernished powder or other explosives, shall, immediately on arrival and before with the discharge from the vessel of any of such gunpowder or other explosives explosives, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest arriving in
the Colony. of the same, the marks of all the packages, and the names of the consignees, if he knows the gamė.
take vessel to
(5) The master of every such vessel shall, on arrival, take the Master to same to the Gunpowder Anchorage or to the place which may be specified pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, and the said vessel shall place. not be removed therefrom, without the permission of the Harbour Master, until her cargo of explosives has been discharged or for the purpose of going to sea.
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 5t of 1911, No. 10 of 1912 and
No. 17 of 1912.
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