of the Goods landed from or taken on board every Vessel within the Limits of the Harbour, Dock, or Pier. L. The Undertakers shall every Year cause an annual Account in abstract to be prepared, showing the total Receipt and Expenditure of all Monies levied by virtue of this or the special Act, for the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of December or some other convenient Day in each Year, under the several distinct Heads of Receipt and Expenditure, with a Statement of the Balance of such Account duly audited and certified by the Clerk or Secretary for the Time being of the Undertakers, and shall send a Copy of the said Account, free of Charge, to the Clerk of the Peace in England and Ireland, and the Sheriff Clerk in Scotland, for the County or of the Counties respectively, if more than One, in which the Harbour, Dock, or Pier is situate, on or before the Expiration of One Month from the Day on which such Account shall end, which Accounts shall be open to the Inspection of the Public at all seasonable Hours, on Payment of the Sum of One Shilling for every such Inspection : Provided always, that if the Undertakers omit to prepare and send such Accounts as aforesaid, they shall forfeit for every such Omission the Sum of Twenty Pounds. Harbour, And with respect to the Appointment of Harbour Masters, Dock Masters, and Pier Masters, and their Duties, be it enacted Dock, and Pier as follows: Master. LI. The Undertakers may appoint such Harbour Masters Appointment of as they think necessary (including in such Expression Dock Harbour, Dock, Masters and Pier Masters, as herein-before defined), and from or Pier Master. Time to Time, as often as they think fit, may remove any such Harbour Master. LII. The Harbour Master may give Directions for all or any Powers of of the following Purposes; (that is to say,) For regulating the Time at which and the Manner in which any Vessel shall enter into, go out of, or lie in or at the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, and within the prescribed Limits, if any, and its Position, mooring or unmooring, placing and removing, whilst therein: For regulating the Position in which any Vessel shall take in or discharge its Cargo or any Part thereof, or shall take in or land its Passengers, or shall take in or deliver Ballast within or on the Harbour, Dock, or Pier: For regulating the Manner in which any Vessel entering the Harbour or Dock or coming to the Pier shall be dismantled, as well for the Safety of such Vessel as for preventing Injury to other Vessels and to the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, and the Moorings thereof: For removing unserviceable Vessels, and other Obstructions from the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, and keeping the same clear: For regulating the Quantity of Ballast or dead Weight in the Hold which each Vessel in or at the Harbour, Dock, or Pier shall have during the Delivery of her Cargo, or after having discharged the same: Provided Harbour, Dock, or Pier Master. Provided always, that nothing in this or the special Act contained shall authorize the Harbour Master to do or cause to be done any Act in any way repugnant to or inconsistent with any Law relating to the Customs, or any Regulation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs. LIII. The Master of every Vessel within the Harbour or Dock, or at or near the Pier, or within the prescribed Limits, if any, shall regulate such Vessel according to the Directions of the Harbour Master, made in conformity with this and the special Act; and any Master of a Vessel who, after Notice of any such Direction by the Harbour Master served upon him, shall not forthwith regulate such Vessel according to such Direction, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds. LIV. If any Harbour Master, or any of his Assistants, without reasonable Cause, or in an unreasonable or unfair Manner, exercise any of the Powers or Authorities vested in the Harbour Master by this or the special Act, the Person so offending shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds. LV. If any Person give or offer any Sum of Money, or any thing whatsoever, by way of Reward or Bribe to any Harbour Master or any Officer employed in or about the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, for the Purpose of gaining an undue Preference in the Execution of his Office, or for the Purpose of inducing such Harbour Master or other Officer to do or omit to do any thing relating to his Office, or if such Harbour Master or other Officer receive any such Reward or Bribe as aforesaid, every Person so offending shall be liable for every such Offence to a Penalty of Twenty Pounds. LVI. The Harbour Master may remove any Wreck or other Obstruction to the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, or the Approaches to the same, and also any floating Timber which impedes the Navigation thereof, and the Expence of removing any such Wreck, Obstruction, or floating Timber shall be repaid by the Owner of the same, and the Harbour Master may detain such Wreck or floating Timber for securing the Expences, and on Nonpayment of such Expences, on Demand, may sell such Wreck or floating Timber, and out of the Proceeds of such Sale pay such Expences, rendering the Overplus, if any, to the Owner on Demand. LVII. No Vessel which shall be laid by or neglected as unfit for Sea Service shall be permitted to lie within the Limits of the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, but the Harbour Master may cause every such Vessel to be, at the Expence of the Owner thereof, removed from the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, and laid on any Part of the Strand or Sea Shore, or other Place where the same may, without Injury to any Person, be placed; and the Charges of removing or placing such Vessel may be recovered from the Owner of such Vessel by summary Complaint, in England or Ireland, before any Justice of the Peace, and Harbour, Master. and in Scotland before the Sheriff; and in case of Refusal or Master may remove Vessels LVIII. If the Master of any Vessel in or at the Harbour, Harbour Dock, or Pier, or within the prescribed Limits, if any, shall not moor, unmoor, place, or remove the same according to the Direc- within Docks, tions of the Harbour Master, or if there be no Person on board &c. of any such Vessel to attend to such Directions, the Harbour Master may cause such Vessel to be moored, unmoored, placed, or removed as he shall think fit, within or at the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, or within the prescribed Limits, and for that Purpose the Harbour Master may cast off, unloose, or cut the Rope, or unshackle or break the Chain by which any such Vessel is moored or fastened; and all Expences attending the mooring, unmooring, placing, or removing of such Vessel shall be paid to the Undertakers by the Master of such Vessel: Provided always, that before the Harbour Master shall unloose or cut any Rope or unshackle or break any Chain by which any Vessel, without any Person on board to protect the same, shall be moored or fastened, he shall cause a sufficient Number of Persons to be put on board of such Vessel for the Protection of the same. Vessels entering Harbour or mantled as Har Dock to be dis LIX. Before any Vessel shall enter the Harbour or Dock or approach the Pier the Master thereof shall cause her to be dismantled as directed by the Harbour Master; and if any Vessel shall enter the Harbour or Dock or approach the Pier without bour Master being dismantled in the Manner required by the Harbour Master, shall direct. after Notice shall have been given to the Master of such Vessel so to dismantle the same, such Master shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds. lowered when LX. Before any Vessel shall enter into the Dock the Master Vessels to have of such Vessel shall cause her Sails to be lowered or furled; their Sails and if the Master of any Vessel shall navigate the same under entering and sail into or in the Dock he shall for every such Offence be liable navigating to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds. LXI. Every Vessel in the Harbour or Dock or at or near the Pier shall have substantial Hawsers, Towlines, and Fasts fixed to the Dolphins, Booms, Buoys, or mooring Posts, when required by the Harbour Master; and if any Vessel shall be in the Harbour or Dock or at or near the Pier without substantial Hawsers, Towlines, or Fasts fixed as aforesaid, after Notice from the Harbour Master to the Master of such Vessel to furnish or fix the same, such Master shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds. Dock. Vessels to have fixed to Moor- LXII. Every Person other than the Harbour Master who Penalty for wilshall wilfully cut, break, or destroy the Mooring or Fastening fully cutting of any Vessel lying in the Harbour or Dock or at or near the Moorings. Pier shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not Dock, and Pier exceeding Five Pounds. Harbour, Master. Penalty on Vessels lying near the En trance of Har bour or Dock without Permission. Vessels may be removed for the Purpose of repairing Har bour or Dock. Harbour Master may remove such Vessel if the neglect or refuse so to do. LXIII. As soon as the Harbour or Dock shall be so far completed as to admit Vessels to enter therein, no Vessel, except with the Permission of the Harbour Master, shall lie or be moored in the Entrance of the Harbour or Dock, or within the prescribed Limits, and if the Master of any Vessel either place it or suffer it to remain in the Entrance of the Harbour or Dock, or within the prescribed Limits, without such Permission, and do not, on being required so to do by the Harbour Master, forthwith proceed to remove such Vessel, he shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, and a further Sum of Twenty Shillings for every Hour that such Vessel shall remain within the Limits aforesaid, after a reasonable Time for removing the same has expired after such Requisition. LXIV. Whenever the Undertakers shall deem it necessary, for the Purpose of repairing, scouring, or cleansing the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, that any Vessel lying therein or thereat shall be removed therefrom, the Master of such Vessel shall, within Three Days after Notice in Writing signed by the Harbour Master has been given to him, remove such Vessel according to such Notice; and in case of his neglecting so to do, such Master shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds. LXV. If the Master of such Vessel cannot be found, or if he neglect or refuse to remove the same, as required by the said Notice, the Harbour Master may remove such Vessel to such Master thereof, Station as he shall select, and the Expences of such Removal shall be paid to the Undertakers by the Owner of the said Vessel or the Master thereof: Provided always, that previous to the Repair of Harbour, Dock, or Pier which shall require the Removal of the Vessels therefrom, the Harbour Master shall give Three Days Notice of such Repair and of the Necessity for such Removal to the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs of the District within which the Harbour, Dock, or Pier is situate, or which shall be specified for that Purpose in the special Act, and cause a like Notice to be affixed on some conspicuous Part of such Custom House and of the Office of the Undertakers. Discharge of Cargoes and Removal of Goods. Delivery of Cargoes and placing of dis Vessels. And with respect to the discharging of Vessels and the Removal of the Goods, be it enacted as follows: LXVI. The Master of every Vessel which shall go into the Harbour or Dock for the Purpose of being discharged of her Cargo shall cause her to be so discharged as soon as conveniently may be after entering therein, and shall cause her, after being so discharged, to be removed, without Loss of Time, into such Part of the Harbour or Dock as shall be set apart for light Vessels, and the Harbour Master shall cause a Part of the Harbour or Dock to be set apart for light Vessels accordingly; and if the Master of any such Vessel shall not cause it to be so removed within Twenty-four Hours, after being required so to do by Notice in Writing signed by the Harbour Master, he shall be be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, and the Harbour Master may cause such Vessel to be so removed, and the Expences of such Removal shall be paid to the Undertakers by the Master of such Vessel. Discharge of Cargoes and Removal of Goods. Goods may be removed from after lying there longer than allowed by Bye the Quays, &c. LXVII. If any Wharfinger or other Servant of the Under- Penalty on Wharfingers takers, or any of their Lessees, or the Servants of such Lessees, giving undue shall give any undue Preference, or show any Partiality in loading Preference. or unloading any Goods on any of the Quays, Wharfs, or other Works belonging to the Undertakers, the Person so offending shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds. LXVIII. No Goods shall be allowed to remain upon any of the Piers or Quays or in the Approaches thereto for a longer Time than shall be allowed by the Bye Laws of the Undertakers; and if any Goods shall so remain without the Consent of the Undertakers the Harbour Master, or any Person appointed by the Undertakers for that Purpose, may remove the same to any of the Premises of the Undertakers or other convenient Place, and keep the same until Payment to the Undertakers of the Expences of such Removal, and of the keeping of the Goods; and if such Expences be not paid within Seven Days after Demand thereof made upon the Owner, or if no such Owner can be found, the Harbour Master may sell such Goods, and out of the Proceeds of such Sale pay such Expences, rendering the Overplus, if any, to the Owner on Demand. And with respect to the Protection of the Harbour, Dock, and Pier, and the Vessels therein, from Fire or other Injury, be it enacted as follows: LXIX. Every Person being the Owner of or having the Charge of any Tar, Pitch, Resin, Spirituous Liquors, Turpentine, Oil, or other combustible Thing which shall be upon any Quay, Dock, or Wharf belonging to the Undertakers, or on the Deck of any Vessel within the Harbour or Dock or at or near the Pier, shall cause the same to be removed to a Place of Safety within Two Hours after being required so to do by Notice in Writing, signed by the Harbour Master, and if he fail so to do shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings for every Hour such combustible Thing shall remain in any such Place as aforesaid after the Expiration of Two Hours from the Service of the said Notice. Laws. Protection of the Harbour, Dock, and Pier. Combustible Quays, &c. to be removed. Matter on LXX. If any such combustible Thing as aforesaid shall Combustibles to be guarded remain on any Part of the Quays or Works connected with the during the Harbour, Dock, or Pier, or on the Deck of any Vessel within Night. the Harbour or Dock or at or near the Pier, after Sunset, the Owner or Person having the Charge of the same, or on his Default the Harbour Master, at the Expence of such Owner, shall provide a sufficient Number of Persons to guard the same from Half an Hour before Sunset to Half an Hour after Sunrise; and such Expence, if not paid by the said Owner to the Undertakers, on Demand, shall be ascertained and recovered in the same Manner as Damages for the Recovery of which no special |