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2d. The intended departure of any ship or vessel shall be reported to 

 the Master- Attendant twenty-four hours previous to her sailing, except in 

 cases of emergency, which will be determined by the Resident. 



3d. Commanders of all vessels are requested, when boarded by the 

 Master- Attendant's boat, to deliver to the Post-Office letter-carrier, all 

 letters, packets, and dispatches, for the Settlement, and to receive and furnish 

 a receipt for Post-Office packets which may be sent on board on their 

 departure. 



4th. With a view of affording an authentic record of the progress of 

 the trade of the Settlement, all Commanders of European or square-rigged 

 vessels, are required to give in before sailing, to the Master-Attendant, an 

 accurate specification of the goods imported and exported by them ; such 

 statement to be sealed, and not opened until the vessel shall have quitted the 

 Port. To facilitate this operation, the Master- Attendant will supply the 

 Commanders with proper forms. 



5th. With the same object in view, a verbal statement of the import 

 and export cargoes of Native vessels shall be given in by their Commanders. 



6th. After reporting at the Master- Attendant's Office on their arrival, 

 and immediately previous to their departure, all Commanders of European 

 and Native vessels are required to wait on the sitting Magistrate, and supply 

 him with a list of the passengers intended to remain at or depart from this 

 Settlement. 



7th. All vessels, European and Native, will promptly receive a port- 

 clearance on application to the Master- Attendant's Office, and such port- 

 clearance will be given without fee or charge. 



8th. All cargo boats shall be regularly admeasured, numbered, and 

 registered in the Master- Attendant's Office, and each boat shall have marked 

 upon the bow, her No. and her tonnage. 



9th. All cargo boats shall be supplied with good and sufficient cover- 

 ings, adequate to protect the goods received on board from damage. 



10th. The following shall be the maximum of charges taken for boat- 

 hire, wooding, watering, and ballasting of ships touching at the port, and 

 whose stay does not exceed 4S hours, as well as in all other cases where no 

 previous arrangement or contract is made. 



Boat-hire— 68 cents of a Spanish dollar per koyan of 40 peculs. 



Boat-hire, for a return boat 34 cents. 



Fire-wood, per 1,000 billets, (of 18 katties per billet,) 5$ Spanish 

 dollars, with a proportional price if the billets are smaller or larger. 

 Ditto, ditto, boat-hire included, 8j Spanish dollars. 

 Ballast-sand per koyan, including boat-hire, 80 cents. 



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