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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1741, 12 November 1862, Page 5

iflcto Zealanir Sajette. At the Government House, at Auckland, the 23rd day of October, 1862. Present, — His Excellency the Governor in Council. WHEREAS by the Marine Board Act, 1802, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time .o time to make Regulations relating to the sale and commodious navigation of any Port, Harbour, or River, and the order and management of vessels resorting thereto. Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby make the following Regulations for the Port and Harbour of Otago. And doth declare that this Order shall take effect from and after the 15th day of November next. General Rules and Regulations. 1. The Master of every vessel shall anchor or moor where the Harbour Master or Pilot may direct, and he shall not unmoor or quit the anchorage until notice be given in writing at the Harbour Master’s office; and any Master offending against this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. 2. All vessels must have buoys and buoy ropes to their anchors to show their position ; and must hoist a conspicuous light at their peak end, and keep the same burning from sunset to sunrise, or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 3. All vessels moored or at anchor are to have both cables clear, and in readiness to slack away when required, and any Master offending against this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 4. No boat shall go alongside of any vessel entering any Port, except those duly authorised by Government, before the vessel is properly secured at her anchorage, and has been declared free by the Immigration or other proper Officer, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 5. Masters of vessels arriving from Ports beyond the Australasian Colonies are not allowed to let their steerage passengers leave their vessels for the purpose of landing at Dunedin after twelve o’clock noon during the months of April, May, June, July, August, and September, nor after two o’clock, p.m., during the remaining months, unless with the consent of the Immigration Officer, under a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 6. All vessels are to unshot thejr guns before they anchor, and no guns or firearms, except in self-defence or in cases of distress, are to be discharged from any vessel or from any boat unless permission in writing has been obtained from the Harbour Master, and any oerson who shall offend against this regulation (including as well any sportsman or any other offender), shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 7. All Masters or other persons in charge of vessels are immediately to strike their topgallant yards and masts, to have their jib and spanker booms rigged close in, and moor or clear hawse, when called upon by the Harbour Master or other competent authority *0 do so, and are generally to follow such directions as the state of the weather, the crowded condition of the Port or River, or other circumstances may render necessary or expedient in the judgment of the Harbour Master, with a view to the safety and interest of the whole shipping, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 8. All Masters of Vessels exceeding one hundred tons burthen lying in the Harbour shall cause a sufficient guard or watch to be kept on deck both by day and night, of one man if the vessel is under three hundred tons, and of two men if over three hundred tons burthen ; all other descriptions of deck vessels must have at least one man on board by day and by night, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 9. In the event of an alarm of fire in the Harbour, each vessel in the Harbour shall send to where the fire is, her buckets, axes, mauls, and whatever else she may have on board that may be useful in such cases, also as many men to assist in extinguishing the fire as can be spared, such men and means to be under the command of one of the Officers of the vessel to which they belong, and to be placed at the disposition of the Harbour Master whose lawful order they shall be bound to execute, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 10. Smoking vessels in the Harbour for destruction of vermin is prohibited, without permission from the Harbour Master, under whose inspection, or that of some other person duly authorised by him in that behalf, the operation is to be performed, and after proper precautions have been taken for the extinction of fire in the event of accident; and any person who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 11. No pitch, tar, resin, or other combustible matter shall be lighted or heated on board any vessel or boat whilst lying alor side or near any wharf or vessel in the ’ hour ; and any person who shall against this regulation shall be Ha’* penalty not exceeding twenty pov >T 12.‘Any anchor or kedge Qu^enor cut from, if not -weighed four hours, may be weighed Harbour Master, at the risk s from £IOO to the owner ; and when no buo^P 1 / t0 William tached the anchor or kedge sh 13. No wreck is to be lef* pait of the Harbour, but rn T 1 TSIIMENT onshore above high wreck so left after notice giv- ’ _ hour Master, for the removal' * en or Fa ™ h ” may be removed by order o Master, at the risk and expen 1 , who shall be further liable to will be m exceeding twenty pounds. 14. The owner or part °’7j ce j commander of any vessel or boa, t f , been sunk, stranded, or run on sl-j.br one owner of any baulk of timber, orce from article which is in the -water, i, 3 paper, clear the Harbour of such vessel, remove such baulk of timber, or oV article, upon being required so to 9ra e tice in writing under the hand ig en t.