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roads, or other public employment, until an opportunity 
offers to send him off the island. 
4. As many disturbances and much distress have been 
caused, by people being landed among the Society Islands 
without the smallest means of support; such a practice is 
hereby forbidden under a penalty of forty dollars, or an 
equivalent, for every person so landed, to be paid by the 
master, or commander, or person so landing him or them. 
5. No person is to be landed for the purpose of remain¬ 
ing after the ship or vessel that brought him has left, 
without the permission of the governor of the place at 
which he is desirous of remaining. 
6. Should the governor give his permission to any per¬ 
son to remain on the island for the recovery of his health, 
during the absence of the ship, it is expected that the 
master or commander will furnish him with any reasonable 
supply for his support, as many seamen have been left in 
the greatest distress from the neglect of this precaution : 
be it known, that a recurrence of it will cause a statement 
to be made of the case, to the government to which the 
vessel belongs, that the master, or commander, or other 
person so offending, may be proceeded against on his 
arrival there, as the laws of his own country direct on that 
behalf. 
7. As soon as any ship or vessel appears within a rea¬ 
sonable distance of the reefs, a pilot will be sent to con¬ 
duct her in ; and when she leaves, he will, in like manner, 
take her to sea, for which service he is to receive six 
Spanish dollars, or an equivalent. 
8. All masters, commanders, and other persons, residing 
on, or visiting, this island, are charged strictly to observe 
these regulations ; and as it is the duty of any and all of 
his Britannic Majesty's subjects, to enforce the laws of 
their own country, so it will be to give all advice and 
assistance in securing offenders against them, and stating 
their name, and other particulars, to the government of 
New South Wales, or to the secretary of the admiralty, 
should the case refer to a person belonging, or likely to 
return, to Great Britain, with the name of the person, the 
ship, and the place to which she belongs. 
