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496 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1862.


Harbour Regulation.


Boats may be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty- five dollars ; and all boats whether private or
searched by
officers in Police
boats. not may and shall be subject to be stopped and examined by the Police boats, and if
the person in charge of any boat does not heave to on being hailed by a Police boat or
uses abusive language to the officer or persons on board of her in the execution of
their duty, he shall be liable to be detained in custody until he can be brought before
a Magistrate, and on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

Ships arriving 16. Every commanding officer of any ship - of- war, or master of a merchant ship
having con
tagious diseases or vessel of whatsoever nation who may arrive in this harbour having small-pox or any
on board to
report the same.
other disease of a contagious or infectious nature on board, shall hoist the proper
quarantine flag, and no communication shall be held with any other vessel or boat or
with the shore, until permission be given by the Harbour Master ; and the Boarding
Officer on nearing such ship shall be informed of the nature of such disease that
proper precautions may be taken and assistance rendered , under a penalty in any of
the foregoing cases not exceeding two hundred dollars for every offence.

Ships to remove 17. Every such commanding officer of a ship- of- war, or master of a merchant
when ordered.
vessel, having any such disease on board, shall forthwith remove his ship to any berth
which shall be pointed out by the Harbour Master, and there remain and keep the qua
rantine flag flying until a clean bill of health shall be granted by the Harbour Master;
and shall afford free access and render every assistance to the Colonial Surgeon or other
officer of health who may be directed by His Excellency the Governor to visit such
ship, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars for every offence.

Steamers' 18. A public fairway shall be buoyed off for the passage of river and coast
fairway to be
kept clear.
steamers, and no vessel or boat of any description shall be allowed to anchor within
such fairway, and the master of any vessel or boat dropping anchor in, or otherwise
obstructing such fairway shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding fifty
dollars in addition to any fine otherwise leviable under this Ordinance in the case of
sea going vessels , and in the case of boats registered in the Colony to a like fine in
addition to the forfeiture of register or licence if it be so adjudged by the Marine
Magistrate.

Not to make fast 19. Every master of any vessel of whatsoever description , who shall make or
to or injure
buoys and cause to be made fast to any of the public buoys or beacons or their moorings any rope,
beacons.
chain, or other gear or shall foul or in any way injure the said buoys , beacons, or moor
ings, shall on conviction thereof be fined a sum not exceeding twenty- five dollars, in
addition to the cost of repairing or replacing the same. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 17
of 1873. ]

Vessels to 20. Every master of a vessel or hulk in this harbour shall from sunset to sun
exhibit light at
night. rise cause to be exhibited a bright white light from the starboard foreyard arm or in
the case of dismantled vessels or chops at the place where it can be best seen, and in
default shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.