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with the signal NM, "I am on fire" shall be hoisted at the highest masthead and guns fired as above provided for night time.
3. If on board any ship or vessel in the waters of the Colony a disturbance or riot shall cccur which the master or his officers are unable to quell, if by day, the ensign Union down shall be hoisted at the peak and the signal PC, "want assistance ; mutiny" shall be hoisted at the highest masthead or wherever practicable under the circumstances; guns may also be fired as in sub-section 2; if by night, three lights shall be hoisted at the peak and a single light at the masthead, and guns may also be fired as before stated.
Offences in the Waters of the Colony.
[See also "The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873," and Regulations]. XXVIII.-Every person who within the Colony or the waters thereof shall commit any of the following offences, shall incur a penalty of not more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Every person who shall cast or throw any dead body, ballast, rubbish, or other substance, either from shore or from any vessel, into the waters of the Colony, or shall negl.ct within a reasonable time to remove any sunken vessel or other obstruc- tion in the said harbour belonging to him or in his charge or keeping.
Every persen who not being in Her Majesty's service and not being duly authorised by law for the purpose, goes on board any ship within the waters of the Colony, without the permission of the master or officer in charge; and the master or
son in charge of such sbip may take any such person so going on board as aforesaid to custody and deliver him up forthwith to any constable to be d alt with according to law.
Every person not being in Her Majesty's service who shall make fast to or cause to be made fast to a ship under way within the waters of this Colony, any boat, junk or other vessel, without the sanction of the master or officer in charge of such ship.
2. Except as is bereinbefore directed by sub-sections 2 and 3 of section XXVII., or with the sanction of the Harbour Master, no cannon, gun, or fire-arm, of any description shall be discharged, within such portions of the wa'ers of the Colony as the Governor may from time to time by regulations prescribe, from any merchant Vessel or boat, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.
Removal of Obstructions.
XXIX. The Harbour Master may, by written notice, require any person to remove within a reasonable time, to be specified in such notice, any obstruction in the waters of the Colony, caused by such person or belonging to him or in his charge or keeping; and if such person fail to remove the obstruction within the specified time, the Hart our Master shall cause the obstruction to be removed, and may recover the expenses of removal from the person ramed in the notice.
Mooring.
XXX.-No person shall place moorings in the waters of the Colony except with the sanction of the Harbour Master, and such moorings shall be of such nature as the Harbour Master shall approve, and the Harbour Master way, upon giving such Banction, attach such conditions to the use aud employment of such moorings as he shall think fit.
LIGHTHOUSES, Buoys, OR BEACONS. Light Dues.
XXXIV.-The owner or master of every ship which enters the waters of the Colony, shall pay such dues in respect of the said lighthouses, buoys, or beacons as may, from time to time, be fixed by order of the Governor in Council, to such officers as the Governor shall, from time to time, appoint to collect the same, and the same shall be paid by such officers into the Colonial Treasury.
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