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[SECT. 7.] And the commissioner of [the] impost, or deputy, shall 

 attend at his office at certain hours de die in diem, for entering ships 

 and vessels, and to give certificate of paying the duty thereof to the 

 naval officer, for which he shall demand and receive sixpence, and 

 no more. 



[SECT. 8.] And no ships or vessels shall be cleared by the naval 

 officer, until such certificate be produced that the duty of the light- 

 house be paid; and the ship, with master, shall be charged with the 

 duty thereof, till paid to the commissioner of impost. 



And be it further enacted l>y the authority aforesaid, 



[SECT. 9.] That the person who shall be appointed from time to 

 time, by the general court or assembly, to be keeper of the sa[idj [me] 

 lighthouse shall carefully and diligently attend his duty at all times 

 in kindling the lights, from sun-setting to sun-rising, and plac- 

 774 ing them so as they may be most seen by vessels coining in or 

 going out; and upon conviction of neglect of his duty, before 

 the court of general sessions of the peace within the county, shall be 

 liable to be fined, according to the degree and circumstance [s] of his 

 offence, not exceeding one hundred pounds, two-thirds thereof to be 

 to his majesty to and for the support of the government of this his 

 majesty's province, and the other third part thereof to the person or 

 persons that shall inform of such neglect; to be recovered by bill, 

 plaint or information in any of his majesty's courts of record within 

 this Province. [Passed July 23. 



No. 158. 1761, June 5: Act of the Province of Massachusetts Bay % 



1751-2, Cap. 2. 



An Act in addition to an act made and passed in the first year of the reign of 

 His Majesty King George the First, intituled "An Act for building and main- 

 taining a lighthouse upon the Great Brewster (called 'Beacon Island'), at 

 the entrance of the Harbour of Boston." 



Whereas the lighthouse at the entrance of the harbour of Boston 

 hath been greatly damaged by fire, and it hath been ordered by this 

 court that it should be repaired; and it being reasonable that the 

 charge of such repairs should be borne by those who receive the im- 

 mediate benefit thereof, 



Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and 

 House of Representatives, 



That the commissioner of impost be and hereby is directed, by him- 

 self and his several deputies, to demand and receive of the master of 

 every vessel (which, within the space of two years from the publica- 

 tion of this Act. shall clear out from any port within this province, 

 being bound to any port without this province), over and above what 

 is already by law provided, the following rates at each time of clear- 

 ance; viz., for every vessel of less than one hundred tons, two shil- 

 lings; for every vessel of above one hundred tons, and not exceeding 

 two hundred tons, three shillings; and for every vessel of above two 

 hundred tons, four shillings; the tonnage to be computed according 

 to what such vessels may measure in carpenters tonnage, and not ac- 

 cording to the register of such vessel; and the said commissioner of 



