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in table Oa of the schedule hereto (rental $5 half yearly) and such moorings and buoys shall be of such nature as the Harbour Master shall approve.

3. No person shall moor or anchor hulks or vessels of like description within the waters of the Colony without the sanction of the Harbour Master and except upon such conditions and subject to the payment of such fees as the Governor in Council may direct.

4. Moorings and buoys sanctioned by the Harbour Master under sub-section 2 shall not be made use of by any vessel other than the vessels of the person to whom such sanction has been granted except with the consent of such person. The master of any vessel using any such moorings and buoys without such consent shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars per day for every day or part of a day during which he shall so use such moorings and buoys after he has been requested to remove therefrom.

LIGHTHOUSES, BUOYS, OR BEACONS. Light Dues.

XXXIII.—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, beacons, cables and other apparatus as may from time to time be fixed by order of the Governor, pursuant to resolution of the Legislative 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.

IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.

[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 or other explosives, and no gunpowder or other explosives 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 regulations to be made under sub-section 12 o this Ordinance.

2. Such vessels or buildings shall for the purposes of this chapter be termed a government depôt or government depôts for the storage of gunpowder, and shall be under the control 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 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 or other explosives exceeding two hundred lbs. shall immediately, upon the arrival thereof, and before the discharge from the ship of any such gunpowder or other explosives, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of the same, the marks of all the packages, and the names of the consignees, if he shall know the same.

4. The master of every such vessel as in the last preceding section mentioned. sball as soon as possible take the same to the place which shall be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom without. the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.

5. When any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives exceeding two hundred' lbs. is about to be conveyed out of the Colony, the master of the vessel 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.

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