REGULATIONS UNDER WATERMAN'S LICENSING ORDINANCE, 1863,

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 88, 2 March 1864, Page 7

REGULATIONS UNDER WATERMAN'S LICENSING ORDINANCE, 1863,

FOB THE LAKE WAKATIP. 1. No person licensed under the <l Waterman's Licensing Ordinance, 1863," shall use any rowing or sailing boat on the Lake Wakatip, for the carriage and conveyance of passengers or goods, unless such boat has been first approved of in ■writing by the person authorised to grant licenses in the Wakatip district; and if any such licensed person shall be found using, or shall be employed as hired servant, in any such boat, for such purpose, he shall be liable to a penalty of forty shillings, and his license may be forfeited in the discretion of the person before whom the penalty shall be recovered. 2. The person authorised to grant licenses in the Wakatip district may, if he think fit, withdraw his written approval of any such boat if he shall at any time afterwards, upon examination, find the boat is not in good condition, and in every way fit and safe for the carriage of passengers and goods. 3. The person authorised to grant licenses in the Wakatip district shall keep a register of all rowing and sailing boats, approved of by him, and shall in such register and in such written approval enter the tonnage of such sailing vessels. 4. All boats to be employed in carrying goods or pasoengers to any distance beyond half a mile from the shore of the Lake, or from any landing place on the Lake, shall be decked, and of not less than five tons according to the register kept by such authorised person as aforesaid, and if any person shall carry for hire cargo or passengers in a boat not decked, or of less tonnage than five tons, to a greater distance than half a mile from the shore, or from any such landing place, such person shall be liable to a penalty of forty shillings. 5. All boats carrying goods or passengers on the said Lake, to be allowed to carry three passengers for every ton, when such space is not occupied with cargo, the tonnage of every vessel to be deemed and taken to be that entered in the register of such authorised person as aforesaid. 6. If such boat shall at any time have on board a greater number of passengers than the number allowed by the sth Regulation, the boatman or boatmen using or having the charge thereof, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of forty shillings. 7. The license to ply for hire shall be granted annually, and no person shall receive any such license until he has been examined by the person authorised to grant licenses for the Wakatip district, and shall have obtained a certificate from such examiner, that he thoroughly understands the management of a boat. Provided that such authorised person, instead of himself examining such person, may require him to produce a certificate of competency from the Harbor Master or Deputy Harbor Master of the Port of Otago. 8. The license to be granted shall be in the form in the Schedule A to these Regulations, and before the same shall be granted, there shall be a fee of five shillings for the same, to such person as aforesaid. 9. Every licensed boatman shall have the name and number of his boat legibly painted on the in side of the sternsheets of such boat, or on the after part of the coamings of the main hatch of a sailing vessel, decked, under a penalty of forty shillings. 10. No boats whatever are to be made fast to any steps or landing place, or to be kept longer at such landing place or steps, than required for landing their passengers or goods, under a penalty of forty shillings. Schedule A. Lake Wakatip District, Province of Otago. Waterman's License. License No. Whereas has been approved of by me as a fit and proper person to hold a license to ply for hire as a waterman, on the Lake Wakatip,—Now therefore, I, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby license the said to ply for hire in any boat which has been approved of in writing by me, or any other person duly authorised at any appointed ferry, wharf, or landing place within the said district of Wakatip, under the Regulations which now are, or may from time to time be fixed and constituted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago. Given under my hand at this day of 186 . Signed A. B. N.B.—This license shall expire on the day of 186 . Notice of intention to renew the same must be given in writing fourteen days prior to that date. Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this fourteenth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago. Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary.