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III. All vessels anchoring within any harbour or port in this island, 

 whether for shelter, to take in supplies or otherwise, without the 

 certificate aforesaid, shall pay six-pence per ton to the harbour master 

 of the port or harbour, who shall grant a certificate thereof, agreeably 

 to the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (A), which 

 shall exempt them from further payment of anchorage duty, or light 

 duty, in that or any other port or harbour in this Island until the 

 first day of January next, after such payment, but no longer. 



IV. The person receiving any of the duties aforesaid, shall, quar- 

 terly, make a return in writing of the amount received by him to the 

 treasurer of this Island, and shall make and subscribe, at the foot 

 of each return, an affidavit of the correctness thereof, in the Form in 

 the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (B.), set forth, to be sworn 

 before a justice of the peace; and he shall also, at the time of making 

 such return, pay the amount so received by him into the treasury of 

 this Island, to be applied to the purposes specified in the Act of the 

 eighth Victoria, chapter three, intituled An Act to make new pro- 

 visions for the support of Light Houses, Buoys and Beacons, and to 

 which the duties imposed by that Act are thereby applied ; and such 

 person shall for his services be paid twenty pounds per centum on all 

 moneys so received and paid over by him as aforesaid, fo anchorage 

 duties, and seven and one-half pounds per centum on all moneys so 

 received and paid over by him as aforesaid, for light duties. 



V. If the master of any vessel liable to any duties hereunder, shall, 

 on demand, refuse to pay or shall depart without paying the same, 

 he shall forfeit five pounds in addition to the- amount of duties ; and 

 the Controller of Navigation Laws, or person so appointed as afore- 

 said in the case of light duties, or the harbour master in the 



622 case of anchorage duties, is hereby authorized, in his own name 

 as such officer, to sue for and recover such fine and duty before 

 any one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace which justice is 

 hereby directed and required, on the oath being made by any such 

 officer as aforesaid, to cause a capias to be issued for the recovery of 

 the same, and immediately to proceed and adjudicate on the same; and 

 if the amount of the judgment given by such justice, and the costs 

 and expenses, be not at once paid after the giving of such judgment, 

 then the defendant shall be imprisoned for the same length of time, 

 in proportion to the amount of the judgment, as he would have been 

 under an execution issuing out of any court for the recovery of small 

 debts, constituted, or to be constituted, under any Act now or here- 

 after, for the time being, to be in force, on a judgment of a similar 

 amount recovered therein. 



VI. If the master of any vessel shall not pay any such duty when 

 duly demanded, the officer shall, and he is hereby fully authorized 

 to seize such vessel, or any part of her materials, and to employ other 

 persons to assist him in doing the same, and to detain such vessel or 

 materials until the duty due and the expenses thereon are paid. 



VII. The remedies for the recovery of the duties and penalties 

 aforesaid, given by the two last sections of this Act, may be both pur- 

 sued, and at the same time, or at different times, or one only may be 

 pursued, or otherwise, as the officer collecting the same may think fit. 



VIII. So much of the Act of the eighth year of Her present 

 Majesty's reign, chapter three, intituled An Act to make new provi- 

 sions for the support of light houses, buoys and beacons, as relates 



