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

 shall exempt the said vessel from further payment of light or anchor- 

 age duty in the same or any other port in this Island until the first 

 day of January next after such payment, but no longer; and such 

 vessel shall not be cleared at the Custom house without the produc- 

 tion of such certificate; but new vessels leaving this island on their 

 first voyage, and intended for sale, shall only be liable to pav two- 

 pence per ton duty, unless they again return, when they shall imme- 

 diately become liable to the full duty as aforesaid. 



III. All other vessels coming into any port or place in this Island 

 shall pay, on entry, six-pence per ton as aforesaid to the Controller 

 of navigation laws, who shall grant a certificate thereof, agreeably 

 to the form marked (A) in the schedule to this Act annexed, which 

 shall exempt them from further payment of light or anchorage duty 

 in that or any other port in this Island until the first day of January 

 next after such payment, but no longer; and the Controller of navi- 

 gation laws shall be paid seven and one-half per centum on all moneys 

 so received by him as aforesaid for light duty. 



IV. All vessels anchoring within any harbor 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 harbor master 

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

 to the said form (A), which shall exempt them from further pay- 

 ment of anchorage or light duty in that or any other port or harbor 

 in this Island until the first day of January next after such payment, 

 but no longer. 



V. The person receiving anchorage duties as aforesaid .shall quar- 

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

 Controller of navigation laws for the port, harbor or place for which 



such person shall have been appointed ; and shall make and 

 628 subscribe an affidavit at the foot of each return of the correct- 

 ness thereof, in the form in the schedule to this Act annexed, 

 marked (B), to be sworn before such Controller of navigation laws, 

 who is hereby required and empowered to administer the oath for 

 that purpose; and all sums of money, so received as aforesaid for 

 anchorage duties, shall, at the time of such return being made, be 

 paid to the Controller of navigation laws for the port, harbour or 

 place as aforesaid, and shall by him be paid, together with all light 

 duties collected under this Act, into the Treasury of this Island, to be 

 applied as directed in and by the Act of the eighth Victoria, chapter 

 three, intituled "An Act to make new provisions for the support of 

 Lighthouses, Buoys and Beacons;" and such persons shall, for his 

 services, be paid twenty pounds per centum on all moneys so received 

 and paid over by him to such Controller as aforesaid for anchorage 

 duties. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall 

 entitle or be construed to entitle any Controller of navigation laws to 

 any sum or sums of money as per centage on any moneys received or 

 paid over by or to him for anchorage duties as aforesaid. 



VI. If the master of any vessel liable to any duty imposed by this 

 Act 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, in the case of light 

 duties, or the harbor master, in the case of anchorage duties, is hereby 

 authorized, in his own name as such officer, to sue for and recover such 



