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of cable out. These moorings naturally interfered with the moorings of 
other vessels. For a time ship-agents preferred to continue to use the 
wharfage charged at this time was 2s. per ton, weight or measurement; - 
horses, 5s. each; sheep, 4s. per score; goods for transhipment, ls. per 
n. No berthage charge was made until a specified time allowance, 
according to tonnage, had expired. А vessel of, say, 400 tons was allowed 
up to en days for discharging cargo. There appears to have been no 
regulation in the matter of loading cargo. 
The Clerk of Works from the Ist May to the 23rd December, 1862, was 
Mr. Henry Bragg; from that time to the completion of the contract Mr. 
W. H. Hales was in charge. Mr. Bragg was also in charge of the Queen's 
Bond contract. 
In July, 1864, the Council decided to lengthen the southern end of the 
inner tee and the cross-head, and also to lengthen the main wharf and add 
another cross-head. The Wharf Committee recommended that the moor- 
ings and buoys should be placed not more than 10 to 15 fathoms from the 
bow of a vessel ; that the wharf should be let by public auction ; and also 
that the wharf should be lighted for the safety of passengers, and that the 
white light at the end of the wharf should be replaced by a red light (the 
standard for the same to be raised about 8 ft., as there had been complaints 
that the light had been obscured by the vessel that might be moored 
at the cross-head). Much technical detail is given in a report on the 
rhe очы of the wharf laid before the Council on the 21st January, 
6 John 
Bros., of Westminster, and Crumlin, Wales, and Messrs. Thomson and 
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Browning, London—responded. The scheme of Messrs. Kennard was 
