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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4001, 18 June 1870, Page 7

Provincial "Government Gazette.

the first of July then next ensuing. Every duel license shall be numbered, and contain the name oi ths person to whom the same is granted, and upon demand, shall be produced to any person by whom he may be employed. Any person plying for hire with any such vessel or boat as aforesaid, withont being licensed under this regulation, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 72, Every person who wishes to ply as a waterman in any nort, must make application in writing to the Superintendent of the Province for a license, such application to be countersigned by two respectable resident^ in the said pdrt, whd shall testify to the applicant's respectability. This application it for renewal of a license, must be sent in not teas than fourteen days before the first of July in each year, but may be sent in at any time for a new license. _ 73. Every licensed waterman shall, in addition to his license, carry a printed copy of the watermen's regulations, and a table of fares, any or all of which he shall produce to any person by whom he may be employed, on their being demanded, or be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 74. Any master or waterman licensed under the provisions of clause 71 of these regulations, found guilty of dishonest or improper conduct, or of using abusive or insulting language, or of plying with a bout which the Harbour Master or other duly authorised officer shall consider to be not fully equipped with proper gear, and not in a seaworthy condition, shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to have his license caficelle'dby Girder of the Justice or Justices before whom any such convictions shall have taken place. 75. Every licensed master or waterman as aforesaid, who shall carry in any boat more passengers or cargo than the boat has been licensed to carry, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than two pounds nor more than twenty pounds ; and any such boatman who shall demand more than the proper fare, or who shall, without sufficient reason, refuse or neglect to employ his boat when required, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 76. Any licensed master or waterman lending his license to any other person, shall be liable to a penalty of forty shillings. 77. But any licensed master or waterman 1 being in charge of any boat, who by sickness may be prevented from plying, may, on depositing with the Harbour Master a certificate from a duly Qualified medical practitioner to 1 that effect, together with his license, be permitted to nominate 1 a substitute, and should the Harbour Master be satisfied of the efficiency of the said substitute, he may issue a certificate authorizing him to serve in the place of the licensed person who is disabled by sickness for a period not exceeding one month, and such certificate may from time to time be renewed during the illness of the said licensed boatman so long as his license shall be so deposited with the Harbour Master. 78. Every vessel or boat used for the purpose of carrying passengers or cargo for hire in any port, harbour, or river, in the Colony, shall be licensed for thatpurpose'by the Superintendent of the Province, in which such vessel or boat is to ply ; and such license being granted on the certificate of the inspecting officers, as hereinafter provided, shall be in force till the first of July next ensuing ; and a certificate of license shall be given to the owner of the vessel or boat, and must at all times be produced for inspection when demanded by the Harbour Master or his deputy ; and the name and number of the boat for which the certificate of license is ; issued, and the name of the owner, and the quantity \ of cargo or number of passengers which the vessel or ! boat is licensed to carry, shall be stated in the ' certificate, and shall be also legibly painted on some conspicuous part of the boat ; and the owner of any j vessel or boat which shall be used for carrying passengers or cargo for hire, who shall not comply with the above regulation shall for every offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. i 79. Before a license is granted for any vessel or boat, as provided in the last preceding clause of these regulations, she must be inspected by two or more competent persons appointed by the Superintendent, who will, on approval, grant a certificate as to her dimensions and the quantity of cargo, or the number of passengers she may be permitted to carry, and such certificate must be produced on application for a license. 82. The Harbour Master or any person authorised by him may at any time inspect any cargo or other boat, and if found to be not fully equipped with proper gear, and not in a seaworthy condition, or if found to be overloaded, the license of said boat may be cancelled. 83. Each, boat which, is licensed to carry passengers shall carry twenty pounds of luggage (if required) with every passenger, without extra charge, and the sum to be paid for all luggf o 'e beyond the weight above stated, shall be at the rate of one passenger fare for every one hundred and fifty pounds weight, but for every one hundred aud fifty pounds weight ot luggage so carried one passenger must be deducted from the numberwhich such boat is licensed to carry, 84. The fares whioh licensed watermen will be allowed to charge will be fixed by the Superintendent of each Province for the several ports therein. 85. In those ports in which night watermen are required all regulations concerning them will be made by the Superintendent as aforesaid. 86. In those ports in which " watermen's houses" are provided they shall be set apart solely for the use of licensed watermen, and no other person will be permitted, to occupy them. Should any person persist in doing so, the watermen on duty shall report the same to the police, who will cause suet intruders to be removed, and any person persisting in returning to ' such " watermen's houses," afte; being warned by the police, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.

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