New SotUh Wales, $e.] ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



land in any part of Sydney Cove, but at the King's Wharf, except from 

 Government, or King's boats, or by special permission of the Governor ; 

 penalty, prosecution for a misdemeanour, and forfeiture of the boat. — No 

 person but the naval officer, or a person specially authorized, may go on 

 board a vessel in the harbour, until the cargo has been reported, and the 

 proper bonds shall have been given, and permission obtained to hoist the 

 admission flag : penalty £5, to be paid by the master of the ship, and £5 

 by tlie offender. 



Masters, or other persons belonging to ships, are duly to answ er chal- 

 lenges by sentries when on shore. Masters must execute bonds with sureties, 

 that they wiU observe the Port Regulations ; and that they will carry away 

 no person from the Colony without permission ; and that their vessels shall 

 not depart until duly and fully cleared ; and that they will not export the 

 silver or copper coin in circulation within the Colony. Masters of vessels 

 are also to furnish the public bellman of Sydney, before the admission flag 

 is hoisted, with a correct list, under his signature, of his crew, in order 

 that all credit to the ship's company may be duly cried down ; and no sub- 

 sequent claim upon the crew, during the ship's continuance in the port, 

 shall prevent a seaman from proceeding to sea on board the vessel by which 

 he arrived. 



Any goods lauded, or delivered out of the ship, with intention to land, 

 at any place in New South Wales, other than is specified in the manifest 

 and entry of the cargo, may be seized. Wine, beer, spirits, and all strong 

 liquors, discharged or unshipped from any vessel, without special and proper 

 licence from the Governor, may be seized, and the master may be fined 

 £50. Arms, ammunition, naval or military stores, unshipped or landed, 

 or wilfully suffered by the master to be landed or unshipped, without special 

 permission in writing from the Governor, to be forfeited, and the master to 

 be subject to a fine of £50* 



Goods and packages discharged from a vessel in the harbour, to be 

 landed at the King's wharf only, or they will be liable to seizure. 



Persons landing without the Governor's permission, on Garden Island, 

 Cockle Bay, or Farm Cove, alter sunset, are liable to prosecution for the 

 misdemeanour, and the boats to seizure. 



Boats employed in smuggling are liable to seizure ; and any person 

 privy to, or assisting in, smuggling, liable to be sent to hard labour. 



Masters of vessels lying in Sydney Cove, from whence iron hoops, 

 stones, gravel, ballast, or rubbish Bhall have been thrown below high water 

 mark, are liable to a fine of £6. Masters knowingly leaving persons behind 

 in the Colony, without the Governor s permission, will be held responsible 



