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ORDINANCE No. 4 or 1867.

Gunpowder Storage.

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Gunpowder Storage Ordinance 1867.”

2. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such day as shall hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.

3. Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1848 and section 12 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1862, shall be and the same hereby are repealed, and the provisions of the other sections of Ordinance No. 1 of 1848 shall be held to extend to gunpowder of every kind and description whatsoever anything in the said Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding

4. The Governor is hereby empowered to provide at the expense of the Colony, -one or more vessel or vessels for the storage of gunpowder, and no gunpowder arriving in this Colony shall be stored in any other place than such vessel or vessels except as provided by section 13 and subject to the observance of the rules and regulations to be made under section 16 of this Ordinance.

5. Such vessel or vessels shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be termed a Government depôt or Government depôts for the storage of gunpowder and shall be under the control and management of the Harbor 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 Harbor Master with the approval of the Governor shall deem expedient.

6. The master of every vessel arriving in this Colony and having on board thereof any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two hundred tbs. shall immediately upon the arrival thereof, furnish the harbor master with a copy of the manifest of such gun- powder, 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.

7. 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 Harbor Master and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom without the permission in writing of the Harbor Master.

8. When any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two hundred tbs. 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, receive from the Harbor 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 Harbor 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 Harbor Master.

9. The master of every vessel having on board more than two hundred tbs. of gunpowder or whilst engaged in the transhipment of any quantity shall exhibit at the highest masthead, a red flag.

Short title.

939

Commencement

of Ordinance.

Repeal of section 12 of Ordinance No.

1 of 1862, and application of other sections.

Vessels to be provided for storage of gunpowder;

To be termed Government depôt for the storage of gunpowder.

Master of vessel having upwards of two hundred- lbs. of powder on board to furnish Harbour Master with particulars immediately.

Master of such vessel to take same to specified place and there remain until he have permission to leave.

Mode of pro-. ceeding when gunpowder is to be exported.

Masters having more than two. hundred Iba. of gunpowder on beard to exhibit a flag, also when transhipping the

same.