walls, dock gates, dock bridges, cranes, hoisting machines, or other works, be- 51 Geo. 3. longing to any of the present or future docks or basins, piers, walls, or graving c. 143. docks, in the said port, shall pay for and make good all such damage, to be recovered, in case such damage shall not exceed 501. before any two justices of the peace, of the borough of Liverpool, in the manner prescribed by the said act; but where such damage shall amount to more than 50!, the same shall be recovered by action at law, with costs of suit, by the said trustees of the docks.

Rule 38. If any person shall, without the authority of the harbour-master, or Opening dock the respective dock-masters of such docks, open or shut any dock gates, sluice, gates, &c. clew or drawbridge of any of such docks, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 1007, and in case of the drawbridge, a sum not exceeding 201.

Rule 39. No person shall, at any time, discharge into, or lay any timber in Discharging any such docks or basins, without the consent, in writing, of the dock committee, timber into upon pain of forfeiting a sum not exceeding 101, and also a further sum not ex- docks. ceeding five shillings for every hour such timber shall remain in such docks or basins after the expiration of 24 hours after passing the custom house officers; and no gunpowder, pitch, tar, rosin, hemp, flax, faggots, furze, brandy, or Combustible spirituous liquors, turpentine, oil, hay, straw, tallow grease, shavings of wood, or goods. combustible matter of any kind, shall remain on any of the dock quays, basins, or piers whatsoever, or any part thereof, or upon the deck of any vessel, in any of the said docks, basins, or cuts, above the space of forty-eight hours together, after passing the custom-house officers: and the owner or consignee of such goods, matters, or things, and master of any such vessel, shall cause the same to be watched and guarded by one or more discreet person or persons during the night time, for so many hours as the said trustees shall direct, by writing, placed in the dock office, in the said town; and in case he or they shall neglect so to do, he or they shall forfeit, for every such offence, a sum not exceeding 51. and the owner or consignee of any such goods, matters, or things, and the master of any such vessel, shall, for every hour which the same shall remain on such quays or docks respectively, beyond forty-eight hours, forfeit 5s,

Rule 40. If any fire, candle, or lamp, be found lighted or burning on board Fire, candle, any vessel lying within any of the said docks, basins, or piers, the master of any &c. such vessel shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 101.

Rule 41. Every owner, consignee, and other person whatsoever, landing, or Non-removal causing to be landed or laid, any goods, timber, wood of any kind, masts, yards, of goods from pumps, boats, anchors, cables, casks, guns, paving stones, lime stones, soapers' dock quays. waste, dung, or manure, or other thing whatsoever, (other than materials for the necessary repairs of the docks and piers, and other works belonging thereto,) upon any of the quays of the present or future docks, basins, or such other works as aforesaid, shall, within forty-eight hours next after the same shall have been so landed or laid, wholly remove the same from off such quays, on pain of forfeiting a sum not exceeding 5s. for every hour such goods shall remain upon any such quays beyond the times before specified.

Rule 42. In case any person shall wilfully cut, break loose, damage, or de- Unloosing stroy, any cable, hawser, rope, or other thing, by which any vessel lying in the ships' ropes, said river Mersey, or in any of the said docks, basins, piers, or cuts, shall be &c. moored or fastened, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 501.; and shall also pay all the damage thereby occasioned, to be ascertained and recovered before a justice of the peace, in the manner prescribed by the said act.

Rule 43. If any person shall damage, break, demolish, or throw down, any Damaging lamp or lamps, irons, or posts, set up about the said docks, basins, graving docks, lamps. creeks, entrances, and pier heads respectively, or any of them, or shall extinguish the lights within the same lamp or lamps, or take out the oil, or damage the iron, or other furniture thereof, he may be taken up and carried before a justice of the peace, and for his said offence shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 51. for each lamp, lamp iron, or post, or other furniture, so broken, thrown down, or damaged, or for every light extinguished as aforesaid; and moreover shall make satisfaction for the damage so done, as such justice shall award; and in case he shall not pay such fine, and make such satisfaction, he shall be committed to the common gaol of the said town, for any time not exceeding one calendar month.

Rule 44. The trustees may make by-laws for appointing, regulating, and By-laws for ordering the use of the slips, basins, wharfs, quays, and other conveniences; and, regulations of also, for regulating boats and small craft making use thereof, and ordering and boats, &c. governing the boatmen, or persons employed in such boats and small craft, which

51 Geo. 3. c. 143.

Salvage.

By laws to

regulate masters of ships, pilots, water men, &c.

Masters of

of servants.

by-laws may respectively contain a penalty for each offence, not exceeding the sum of 51.

Rule 45. It sh 11 be lawful for any justice of the peace, upon complaint being made to him, to hx and as crtain what sum of money shall be paid to any boatman or other person, for salvage or labour, in finding and taking any anchors and cables in the said river; and in case such sum, after tender made, he refused, it shall then be lawful for suca justice to issue his warrant to search for the said auchors and cables, and to deliver them to whom they belong.

Rule 46. It shall be lawful for the said trustees to ordain such by-laws, rules, and orders, as they shall think fit, for mooring, unmooring, and navigating all vessels, and all smail craft whatsoever, using the said docks, basins, entrances, and quays, and conveniences thereto Lelonging; and also, in what manner the master and mariners of all vessels and stall craft whatsoever, shall conduct and behave themselves within the same; and also in what manner all pilots and watermen shall conduct themselves in the taking charge of and piloting all vessels; and to ordain by-laws for the good rule and government of the said docks, basins, piers, graving docks, lighthouses, lights, buoys, landmarks, beacons, perches, buildings, now or hereafter to be erected, under this or any former act, provided that no such by-law shall contain any penalty exceeding the sum of 51, for one offence.

Rule 47. Where any offence shall be committed against this or any former act, ships answer in relation to any of the docks, basins, entrances, piers, and other works of the able for acts said port, whereby any penalty is forfeited, and the immediate offender cannot be discovered, in every such case the master or other person having the command of such vessels in the employment about which such offence shall have been committed, shall be liable to such pecuniary fine or penalty in like manner as if he had been the immediate offender.

Bribes.

Applications of penalties. Informers.

53 Geo. 3. c. 122. (a)

of marine

stores not to follow trades.

Rule 48. If any owner or master of any vessel, or any other person, shall give to or offer any sum of money or other thing what-oever, by way of reward or bribe, to any water-bailiff, babour-master, dock-master, constable, or other officer, for the purpose of doing or omitting to do any act, matter, or thing, touching or in any wise relating to their office; or in case any of the officers aforesaid shall receive any sum of money by way of reward or bribe as aforesaid, every such offender, in giving or receiving such reward or bribe, shall forfeit, for every such offence, a sum not exceeding 201.

Rule 49. All penalties by this act, or any former act, relating to the docks, basins, and works of the said port of Liverpool, shall, when levied, be paid and applied, one third to the informer, and the other two thirds to the said trustees, for the benefit of persons assisting in the preservation of the lives of the crew of any vessel wrecked in the said port, or on the coasts adjacent thereto, or in the preservation of any such ship or cargo, or in the preserving, or endeavouring to preserve, the life of any person from being drowned in the said river, or any of the docks or basins, or in the relief of any of the sick, disabled, worn out, or superannuated men in the service of the said docks, or the widows and families of such of them as may have been killed in such service; and in case such penalties shall not amount to the annual sum of 2007, the residue may be raised from the rates and duties granted by the said act,

Rule 50. No dealer in marine stores (except sail-makers) shall carry on his business as such dealer in ma, ine stores, or hold, or use, or occupy, any wareWhere sellers house, cellar, or other building as a repository for marine stores, within the distance of forty yards from the margin or side of any dock in Liverpool, or of any basin or entrance to any such dock, on pain of forfewing, for every day on which he shall so carry on his business in, or use or occupy any such warehouse, &c. 51. Ships not Rule 51. Every vessel arriving at the port of Liverpool from any part or parts bringing coast of Great Britain, or of Ireland, not having or bringing a coast dispa ch, shall be dispatches. deemed and charged as a vessel coming in ballast as to the tonnage rates, although such ves el may have on board any article subject to duty under the table of rates annexed to the act of 51 Geo, 3.

Securing

Rule 52. No vessel arriving in ballast, and proceeding to depart in ballast, duties on ships shall be permitted so to depart until a certificate, from the receiver of the dock entering port duties of the payment of the rates due from every such vessel, shall have been pro 'uced to, and left with, the dock-master of the dock or basin where such vessel shall be stationed; and if any vessel liable to duty shall depart from any such

in ballast.

(a) Local and personal act.

dock, or from the port, without the production and leaving of such certificate, in 53 Geo. 3. . manner aforesaid, the owner, consignee, and master of such vessel, shall forfeit c. 122. double the amount of the dock duty which should have been paid; and the master of such vessel shall also be liable to the penalty of 20.

Rule 53. Over and above the penalty given by the foregoing act of 51 Geo. 3. Evading du every person evading the payment of the duties upon goods, imported into or ex- ties. ported out of the port, shall forfeit 201

Rule 54. A floating light shall be established at the entrance of the port of Floating Liverpool, and the following rates and duties shall be demanded and levied for light. the same, and the said rates and duties shall be levied and collected by all such ways and means, and under such penalties and forfeitures for any refusal or neglect to pay the same, as are contained in the acts relating to the other lights belonging to the port of Liverpool, viz.—

Vessels sailing to or from Liverpool, to any place between
Duncan's Bay Head and the Land's End, on the west side of
Great Britain, and between Malling Head and Cape Clear on
the east side of Ireland, the ton

Vessels sailing to or from Liverpool, to any place between
Duncan's Bay Head and the Land's End on the east and southern
coast of Great Britain, and between Malling Head and Cape Clear
on the west coast of Ireland, the ton
Vessels sailing to or from Liverpool, to any place not being within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the ad-
jacent islands to the northward of the Cape of Good Hope,
and the northward of Cape Horn, the ton
Vessels sailing to or from Liverpool, to any place to the eastward
of the Cape of Good Hope, and the westward of Cape Horn,
the ton

£. s. d.

0001

0001

001

002

[Here follow in the original, regulations respecting the basins, stairs, and slips ap- Basins, stairs, propriated to the use of boats, but which regulations are not necessary to be inserted in &c. this book.]

[ABSTRACT of the Bye-Laws made by the Trustees of the Docks, in Common Council assembled, the 4th day of October, 1815, and the 3d day of July, 1816, for the better regulation and management thereof.]

Rule 55. Any person who shall boil or heat any pitch, tar, turpentine, or other Heating pitch. combustible matter, within five yards of any vessel, either in the docks, basins, or &c. within entrances to the same, or upon the strand of the river, or within eight yards of five yards of the same kind of goods, or any of the quays, or who shall not extinguish the fire vessel. immediately after the business is done, shall forfeit 57. for every offence.

Rule 56. Any person who shall heat any pitch, tar, or turpentine, on board Heating any ship within the docks, basins, or entrances to the same, or on the strand of pitch, &c. on the river, or shall make any bonfire, or feu-de-joie, upon the quays or piers, board ship. shall, for every offence, forfeit 51.

on board in

Rule 57. If the master of any vessel shall bring the same into any of the docks, Gunpowder basins, or entrances, with loaded cannon or guns, with gunpowder on board, or when driven in by stress of weather, shall neglect immediately to discharge the same, or docks. who shall take gunpowder on board until clear of the docks or pier heads, shall, for every offence, forfeit 51.

Rule 58. The master of any vessel, who shall suffer the same to be made fast to Quay fenders, any of the quay fenders or chain post, shall forfeit 51.

&c.

Rule 59. The master of any vessel lying in or up to any of the docks, basins, How ballast, quays, walls, or piers, or the entrance to any such docks or basins, who shall suffer &c. to be any ballast, coal, manure, paving stones, lime stones, or rubbish, to be taken in taken in or or thrown out of the same, without having a canvas nailed to the ship's side, or discharged. other sufficient safeguard, or shall not cause the same to be thrown or laid at least five feet from the edge of the quay, or on the outside of the guard posts of the said quay, and taken away immediately, shall forfeit 51.

Rule 60. The master, owner, or consignee of every vessel lying within any of the When vessel docks or basins, shall have a ship-keeper on deck to attend the vessel every tide, to have a at least two hours before the time of high water, and one hour after high water, ship-keeper. under the penalty of 40s.

Rule 61. The master of any vessel, who shall wilfully or negligently suffer the Vessels not to same to be laid so near any of the dock gates as to binder them from being opened be laid near or shut, or who shall obstruct any other vessel from going in or out of the docks, gates.

Trim of vessels.

Leaving anchor without

a buoy.

Striking masts, &c.

Using stan ⚫hions.

Not putting stanchions into sockets, or not duly removing them.

Entry.

shall forfeit 51. every tide such obstruction shall continue; and the harbourmaster or dock-master may remove the same at the expence and risk of the

owners.

Rule 62. The master of any vessel when hauling into or out of the docks or basins, or removing from one part of the dock to another, or when lying therein, shali (except when any such vessel shall be driven by stress of weather) have the yards apeak, and the sprit-sail yard fore and aft, and the jib-boom run in, within at least three feet from the cap; and immediately after any such vessel shall be brought into any basin, shall have the anchors got in on the forecastle or deck, and shall have the steering sail booms and irons taken off from the yards and booms within twenty-four hours after any such vessel shall arrive in the docks or basins, and shall have the main and mizen booms and the quarter davids rigged in, under the penalty of 54.

Rule 63. The master of any vessel who shall, by negligence or otherwise, leave an anchor in the entrance to any of the docks, or upon the strand of the river, without a buoy, and shall not cause such anchor to be taken up the same tide or early in the next, shall forfeit 51.

Rule 64. The owner, consignee, or master of any vessel, who shall refuse to strike the top-gallant masts and yards of every such vessel entering any of the repairing or graving docks, agreeably to the orders and directions of the harbourmaster or dock-master, shall forfeit 51.

Rule 65. The owner, consignee, or master of any vessel, who shall refuse to cause the top-gallant masts and yards to be struck, during the whole time the said vessel remains in any of the repairing or graving docks, shall forfeit 5.

Rule 66. No owner or consiguee of auy vessel or goods, master of any vessel, master cooper or porter, or other person, shall make use of any iron stanchion, chains, or other thing, for the purpose of enclosing any part of the dock quays, for the discharge or loading any vessel, except upon such part or parts of the quay upon which there are now iron sockets placed to receive the iron stanchions, or in moveable sockets for the purpose of receiving the iron stanchions, and every person offending herein shall forfeit 54.

Rule 67. If any person shall use iron stanchions upon any part or parts of the dock quays upon which there are iron sockets, as aforesaid, and shall not place the stanchions in the sockets, or in moveable sockets, for the purpose of receiving the iron stanchions, or shall not every day remove all and every such stanchions, and chains, and moveable sockets, so used as aforesaid, or cause the same to be removed when and so soon as the porters or labourers therein employed shall have finished or left off work, every person so offending shall, for every offence, forfeit 54.

Rule 68. Dock Office, LiverPOOL, October 5, 1816.

Notice is hereby given, that from and after the first day of November next, all merchants and other owners or agents of ships and vessels trading to the port of Liverpool, will be required to enter the names of such vessels, their draught of water, and the date of their arrival at the port of Liverpool, together with the name of the dock into which they are intended to be brought, in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the harbour-master, near the Old Dock Gates. And all vessels will thereafter be admitted into the said docks or basins in the order only in which they shall be so entered; except when vessels are prevented entering the docks in their regular turns by want of sufficient water, in which cases lighter vessels will be allowed to enter the docks out of their regular turns, provided space be reserved for the accommodation of such heavier vessels when the tides will admit of their entrance.

Any master or other person having the charge or command of any ship or vessel, attempting to enter the said docks or basins, or any of them, otherwise than in conformity with the regulations before mentioned, will be prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law.

JOHN CUMMINS, Harbour Master.

PART IX.

TITLE CCXLV.

WAREHOUSING AND BONDING SYSTEM.

[THE Warehousing and Bonding System is perhaps as important as any can well be imagined concerning British Trade. Commenced comparatively on a small scale, it has been since greatly enlarged, and now embraces a most extensive field. Prior to the passing of the following acts, with a few exceptions, when goods were imported, the amount of the duties of customs and excise was by law required to be immediately paid to the King. By the Warehousing and Bonding System in some cases twelve, and in others fifteen, months, were originally allowed for such purpose. The advantages of this postponed period of payment have been so forcibly felt by every merchant that it would be superfluous, and indeed foreign to the nature of this work, to point them out. This period is now extended to two years, and under certain regulations to five years. Besides which, some modifications have been made in the primary plan. Thus, goods may be removed from one warehouse to another, and from one port to another, before payment of duty. This System presents also great facilities in the export of goods. Care has been taken to insert all the Warehousing and Bonding regulations under this title, and it is hoped in a way that will render them clear and intelligible. The Compiler has prepared "A List showing at one view every Article that may be Warehoused or Bonded in Great Britain before payment of duty." This List is placed under TITLE 289, and will, it is trusted, be found particularly useful.]

[As to the warehousing of East India goods, see TITLE 104.]
[As to the warehousing of Tobacco and Snuff, see TITLE 186.]

East Indies.

Tobacco and

snuff.

Table A.

Rule 1. IT shall be lawful for the importer of any of the goods, de- 43 Geo. 3. scribed in Table A. (a) and which shall be legally imported into the c. 132. § 1. port of London, (b) to lodge (c) the same in any warehouse situated at the Isle of Dogs, and belonging to the West India Dock Company, without payment, at the time of the first entry of such goods, of the duties of customs or excise due on the importation thereof, subject nevertheless to the regulations directed by this act: provided that no

(a) See TITLE 288.

(b) As to Out-Ports, see Rules 10, and 48-51, of this title.

(c) Goods, warehoused by virtue of this or the following acts relating thereto, must always be secured under the joint locks of the crown and the merchant.