His Excellency the Governor shall from time to time license such and so many persons to act as Pilots for any harbour within the Colony as he may think meet.

It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make such regulations respecting the examination and licensing of Pilots, the amount and payment of pilotage, the class of vessels which shall be bound to take Pilots, and respecting all other matters connected therewith, as may be required for securing the good conduct of Pilots and the efficiency of the pilot service: Provided that no coaster shall be subject to any pilotage.

His Excellency the Governor shall from time to time, by Proclamation, appoint stations or places for the performance of quarantine by such vessels bound to the several harbours of the Colony as may be liable thereto, and shall construct and maintain lazarets, and to take all such measures as may be necessary for securing the due performance of such quarantine.

The master of every vessel arriving at any harbour within the Colony which shall be deemed by the Harbour Master to be liable to quarantine, shall on being directed so to do by such Harbour Master cause the same to be anchored in the quarantine ground appointed for such harbour.

The master of every vessel so anchored shall neither himself quit nor permit any seaman passenger or other person to quit the same until he shall have been duly admitted to pratique.

It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make all such regulations respecting the placing of vessels in quarantine and the performance of such quarantine as may seem meet, and to appoint all such officers as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying such regulations into effect.

In order to secure the safety of shipping, and to prevent any obstruction of the navigation of any harbour or navigable river not being within the limits of any borough, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make such regulations respecting the anchoring and mooring of vessels, the package landing deposit and removal of gunpowder, the erection of magazines for the safe keeping thereof and the rent to be charged for the same, for the watering and ballasting and discharging of ballast of or from vessels, and all other matters relating to the safe and commodious navigation of such harbours or rivers, and the order and management of vessels resorting thereto, as may be deemed necessary.

It shall also be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make such regulations requiring declarations to be made by masters of vessels arriving at any of the ports of the Colony, and notices to be given by them of their intended departures from any such port, and prescribing the form and time of making such declarations or giving such notices, as may seem meet: Provided that masters of coasters shall not be compelled to give notice of sailing unless bound from one port of entry to another, and masters of colonial traders only twenty-four hours’ notice.

Every master of any vessel who shall offend against the provisions of this Ordinance shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

For the purpose of giving effect to the regulations hereby authorized to be made by the Governor in Council, the Governor in Council may by any such regulations impose any penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for any offence against the same.

Every such penalty shall be recovered in a summary way.