PORT REGULATIONS, &c.
IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER.
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[See also "The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873," and Regulations.] XXXVII.-The Governor is hereby empowered to provide, at the expense of the Colony, all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder, and no gunpowder arriving in this Colony shall be stored in any other building or vessel except as provided by sub-section 10, and subject to the observance of the rules and regulatious to be made under sub-section 12 of this Ordinance.
2. Such vessels or buil 'ing shall for the purposes of this chapter be termed a government depôt or government d pôts for the storage of gunpowder, and shall be under the contiol and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may
from time to time be received from the Governor; and such vessel or vessels shall be fitted and manned in such a manner as the Harbour Master with the approval of the Governor shall deem expedient.
3. The master of every vessel arriving in this Colony having on board thereof any quantity of gunpowder exc eding two hundred lbs. shall immediately, upon the arrival thereo', and before the discharge from the ship of any such gunpowder, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of such gunpowder, the marks of all the packages wherein such gunpowder shall be contained, and the names of the consignees of such gunpowder, if he shall know the same.
4. The master of every such vessel as in the last preceding section mentioned shall as soon as possible take the same to the place which shall be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, or his deputy, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom without the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.
5. When any quantity of gunpoder exceeding two hundred lbs. is about to be conveyed out of the Colony, the master of the vessels about to convey the same shall, on producing the written authority of the owners thereof or their agents, receive from the Harbour Master a permit to take on board the packages mentioned in such authority, and the master of such vessel shall thereupon move the same into such anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and from such anchorage the master of such vessel shall not remove the same except for the purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbour Master.
6. The master of every vessel having on board more than two hundred lbs. of gunpowder; or whilst engaged in the transhipment of gunpowder, shall exhibit a red flag at the highest masthead.
7. It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel to tranship any gun- powder between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M. from October to March inclusive, nor between the hours of 7 P.M. and 5 A.M. frɔm April to September inclusive, without the written permission of the Harlour Master.
8. It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel, without the written permission of the Harbour Master, to anchor such vessel within five hundred yards of any government depôt for the storage of gunpowder.
9. It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board gun- powder exceeding in quantity two hundred lbs. to auchor nearer than five hundred yards of any other vessel.
10. It shall not be lawful for any person without the permission in writing of the Governor to keep for any time, however short, within any house, store, godown, or other place on land, a larger quantity of gunpowder than fifteen lbs.
11. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, or Police officer duly authorized by warrant, to enter, and if necessary to break into, any house, store, godown, vessel, or place either on land or water, within which such justice of the peace shall be credibly informed on oath, or shall have reasonable grounds of his own knowledge to suspect and believe that gunpowder is kept or carried, or is on board of any vessel contrary to the provisions of this chapter.
12. The Governor in Council is hereby empowered to make rules and regulations for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this chapter, including
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