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Service of documents.

Sale of goods seized.

Pecuniary penalty.

Berth of vessel

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Port Trust, and such constable, bailiff, or officer is hereby

empowered to take all necessary means and demand all

necessary aid to enable him to execute the said order.

28.

Service of any warrant, summons, writ, order, notice, or

other document, when personal service cannot be effected, may be

made upon the owner or upon the master or other person in charge of

any vessel by showing the original to and leaving a copy with any

person found on board the vessel and appearing to be one of her

crew, or by affixing a copy thereof or some conspicuous part of the

vessel.

29.

(1) The Port Trust may sell at public auction or by private

tender the whole or any part of the goods seized and detained

under the provisions of section 26

(a) at any time after the date of the seizure thereof in

respect of goods of the nature or kind referred to in

paragraph (b) of soction 26;

(b) at any time after the expiration of one month from the

date of such seizure in respect of any other goods;

and out of the proceeds arising from such sale retain the sums

due in respect of such goods, and the charges and expenses of

such seizure, detention, and sale.

(2) The Port Trust shall pay or deliver the surplus, if any,

or such of the goods as remain unsold, to the person entitled

thereto and may recover the deficiency, if any, by action in

any court of competent jurisdiction.

30. Every pecuniary penalty recovered for any violation or non-

observance of this Ordinance or of any by-law in force under this

Ordinance shall be paid over to the Port Trust by the Court or

magistrate before whom the penalty has been recovered.

31. The Port Trust may, in cases of emergency by notice in

writing order the master or owner of any vessel to berth such

vessel at, or to remove such vessel from, any dock or pier, and

if at the expiration of twelve hours after the receipt of such

notice the master or owner has not complied the rewith, he shall be

liable to pay to the Port Trust such sum as the Port Trust shall

determine not exceeding one thousand dollars for each twentyfour

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