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Marine.

By Order in Council dated 9th day of July, 1888, the following by-law No. 167, passed by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the town of Kincardine on the 1st June, 1888, was approved :

"1. Tolls shall be and they are hereby imposed and they shall be collected upon all goods, wares, merchandise and chattels shipped or landed on board or out of any vessel. boat or craft from or upon any part of the harbor of the said town of Kincardine, or the basin, piers or wharves connected therewith, and upon all logs. timber, spars or masts, going into or through or upon the same or any part thereof.

"2. The said tolls shall be imposed and collected at and according to the rates set out in the schedule to this by-law and hereto annexed.

"3. The harbor master for the said corporation for the time being is hereby authorized and empowered to collect and receive the said tolls on behalf of the said corporation.

"4. The said tolls shall be employed, after payment of the expenses of collection, for the purpose of improving the said harbor and keeping in repair the same and the piers and wharves in connection therewith.

"5 The harbor master shall pay in to the town Treasurer, on the ist day of each month, the amount of tolls due and collected by him for the then preceding month, and shall also, at the same time, deliver to the town Clerk a detailed statement of the amount so collected and paid in.

"SCHEDULE referred to in the annexed by-law:

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By Order in Council, dated Wednesday, 11th day of July, 1888, under the provisions of the 13th section of the Pilotage Act, being chapter 80 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the Order in Council of the 30th April, 1874, appointing a Pilotage district for the Counties of Digby and Annapolis, in the Province of Nova Scotia, was cancelled so far as it relates to the County of Digby, and a Pilotage district was formed for St. Mary's Bay in the County of Digby, the limits of which district shall embrace the whole of St. Mary's Bay and such ports and harbors therein as belong to the County of Digby inside of an imaginary line drawn between Whipple Point and Cape St. Mary's,-such district to include also Grand and Petit Passages.

Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. XXII, p. 103.

By Order in Council, dated Tuesday, the 25th day of September, 1888, under the provisions of the 3rd section of chapter 84 of the Revised "An Act respecting the Government Statutes of Canada, intituled Harbors, Piers and Breakwaters," the accompanying rules and regulations, together with tariff of tolls and dues were made and established for the following wharves and piers in the Province of Nova Scotia, viz. Hampton, Margaretville, Port George and Port Lorne, in the County of Annapolis; Arisaig, Bayfield and Tracadie, in the County of Antigonish; Grand Narrows. in Cape Breton County; Brulé. in Colchester County; Parrsboro'. in Cumberland County; Belliveau's Cove, Cape Cove or Cape St. Mary, Centreville or Trout Cove. Church Point, Meteghan Cove, Plympton, Salmon River, and Saulnierville, in Digby County; Militia Point, Port Hood Island and Port Hood Wharf, in Inverness County; Avonport, Canada Creek, Chipman's Brook, Hall's Harbor, Harborville, Morton, Ogilvie and Victoria Pier, in

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King's County; Broad Cove and Tancock Island, in Lunenburg County; Pictou Island, in Pictou County; Eagle Head and White Point, in Queen's County; Grand Narrows, or Iona, in Victoria County; Cranberry Head and Tusket Wedge Wharf in Yarmouth County.

RULES AND REGULATIONS for the government of certain wharves and piers in the Province of Nova Scotia, established in accordance with the provisions of chapter 84, Revised Statutes of Canada.

RULE 1.-That no waggon or vehicle shall drive along the wharf or pier, unless employed in the loading or unloading of vessels or carting ballast.

RULE 2.-That no person shall ride or drive a horse or horses faster than a walk on the wharf.

RULE 3.-That no lumber, lath or other material shall be piled in or near the snubbing posts in such a manner that a vessel cannot be made fast.

RULE 4. That masters of vessels or other persons in charge of vessels, shall make a faithful report of the cargo, as to the quantity and description, to the wharfinger at his office; and any master or person in charge of any vessel, who neglects to report and to pay the tolls and dues (except by permission of the wharfinger) shall be liable to have the vessel of which he may be in charge, or of which he is master, seized and detained. then or at any future time until such dues and tolls are paid on the vessel, and the master, owner or person in charge, shall also be liable to the penalty provided by law.

RULE 5.-That any master or person in charge of any vessel, making a false report of cargo, shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars, with or without imprisonment, for each and every false report, and the vessel shall be liable to detention then or at any future time until such dues are paid or satisfied; and if any master or person in charge of any vessel neglects to report her cargo, such vessel or the owner thereof shall be liable for the tolls on such cargo at any future time, and the master thereof shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars for each and every offence. The master or person in charge of any vessel shall report and pay the tolls to the wharfinger at his office.

RULE 6. That no person shall remove any goods, chattels, merchandise or material of any description from the wharf or pier on which the tolls and dues have not been paid, without the permission of the wharfinger.

RULE 7.-- That all goods, chattels, merchandise or material of any kind whatever having been landed, piled or placed on the wharf or pier property for shipment, shall be liable to tolls as per schedule annexed, whether afterward shipped or not, and shall likewise be liable to all rules and regulations as to removal and ground rent and sale.

RUTE 8.-All tolls and dues shall become due and payable at once upon the goods, chattels, merchandise or other material being landed, piled or placed on the wharf or pier property.

RULE 9.-That no goods, chattels, merchandise or material of whatsoever nature or kind, shall be landed or placed in or upon the wharf or

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portions of the wharf or pier property as may be allowed to them for the time being and shall be so landed and placed in such a manner as the wharfinger may direct; and goods, chattels, merchandise or other material landed or placed on the wharf or pier property, shall be shipped or removed within forty-eight hours, and in default of so shipping or removing said goods, chattels, merchandise or other material, it may be removed at the direction of the wharfinger, and the expense of such removal shall be a lien upon such property so removed; it shall also pay a rental of not more than one dollar for every succeeding forty-eight hours for each and every twelve feet square of the wharf property so occupied thereby. case the owner or agent of such goods, chattels, merchandise or other material, refuses or neglects to ship or remove the same from the wharf or pier property after the expiration of twenty-eight days from the time of their being placed there, the proceedings provided for by the statute in that behalf may be taken, and the said goods, chattels, merchandise or other material sold to pay the sums due with costs.

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RULE 10.-That no slaughter house, fish stall or other structure shall be erected upon the breakwater property without the permission of the Minister of Marine, and any such structure shall pay ground rent to be determined by the Minister of Marine,--provisions to be made for the removal of structure by direction of the Minister of Marine.

RULE 11.-That no goods, chattels, merchandise or any other material shall be landed in or on, or shipped from off such slaughter house, fish stall or other structure without the permission of the wharfinger, and all such goods, chattels, merchandise or other material landed in or on, or placed for shipment from off such structure, shall be liable for the tolls and dues as if landed on any other part of the wharf property.

RULE 12.-Vessels will not be entitled to any berth although they may have been hauled in and made fast to the same, unless permission has first been obtained from the wharfinger, and are in all cases to remove at his request; and refusing or neglecting to do so, will be by him removed at the risk and expense of the owner.

RULE 13. - Vessels to discharge cargo will take precedence over vessels to load.

RULE 14. Lumber or merchandise of any description discharged overboard, to be rafted, will be charged half rates; but full rates if discharged into lighters, scows or other vessels.

RULE 15-Goods discharged from one vessel to another vessel will be charged half the specified rates for goods landed upon the wharf or pier, and in all cases said charge to be paid by the inside vessel.

RUIE 16.-All goods, chattels, merchandise or material of any description shipped from the wharf or pier will be charged the same rates as for landing, except in the case of goods, chattels, merchandise, &c., landed and directly re-shipped which shall be chaged one rate only.

RULE 17.-That no person shall obstruct the wharfinger in the performance of his duties.

RULE 18-That the tolls and dues specified in the accompanying schedule shall be and they are hereby imposed and authorized to be levied

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and collected by the wharfinger on the vessels and articles enumerated in said schedule.

RULE 19.-That the tolls payable upon such vessels or upon goods, chattels, merchandise or other material, being landed, piled or placed on the wharf property are hereby imposed upon, and may be collected and recovered from the owner of the same.

RULE 20.-No dirt, sand, gravel or other ballast will be allowed to be put upon the wharf unless with the approbation and under the inspection of the wharfinger; neither will dirt, sweepings of the hold or any articles whatsoever, under any pretence, be permitted to be thrown into the dock. Coal, limestone or any article which, either through carelessness or otherwise in discharging or loading, shall fall into the dock, shall be removed by the master of the vessel, or may be so by the wharfinger at the expense of the master.

RULE 21.-Wharfage will be charged on all ballast put on board or taken from any vessel at the wharf.

RULE 22-All goods, chattels, merchandise or material of any description on the wharf will be at the sole risk of the owner.

RULE 23.-The penalty for violation of the law, or any rule or regulation made thereunder, shall not exceed one hundred dollars, and punishment by impr.sonment shall not exceed thirty days.

Cord wood and bark

Crockery in crates

Cts.

3 each.

1 per barrel. } bag.

3

66

2 each.

dozen.

66

25 per 100.
25 1,000.

66

66

100 lbs.

3 barrel.

3 each.

10

10

4 per ton of 40 c. ft.

2 each.

10 per head.