Liquids. In jars, bottles, and other packages (not in bulk) each s. d. In jars, bottles, and other packages (not in bulk) each Tea, in all packages, per 100 lbs. Coffee, sugar, pepper, sago, saltpetre, turmeric, tamarinds, spices, dates, rice, gram, paddy, and drugs, in bags, the bag Wheat, barley, oats, rye, and other grain and bran in bags or bulk, the imperial quarter... Flour, the 196 lbs. Tobacco, manufactured (except cigars), the cwt. Tobacco, leaf, the cwt.. Cigars, the 1,000..... Manufactures and all dry goods in cases, bales, or other packages, not otherwise described, measuring 60 cubic feet or upwards, the package.... 40 cubic feet and under 60 do. 0 1 0 1 0 10 00000 0 2 44432 Ord. 6-1851. Schedule of dues. Hams or cheeses, when not in packages coutaining more than one of either, the ham or cheese Paint, the ton Earthenware, in crates, the crate Bricks, tiles, or slates, the 1,000 Paving stones, the ton Cocoanuts, the 1,000 Rattans, the 100 bundles ... 0410212101, Fir and teak timber, the load of 50 cubic feet Mahogany and timber, not being fir or teak, the load of 50 cubic feet. Deals, planks, boards, battens, and all wood cut from the log (except staves), the load of 50 cubic feet.... Staves, viz., crown pipe, the 1,000 Do. crown hogshead, do.... Do. other pipe, do.. Do. Do. other hogshead, do... barrel and heading do.. Masts or spars, under 5 inches diameter, each.. 1 0 4 4 0 0 0 8 4 0 Wine, spirits, limejuice, oil, or other liquids, the 100 imperial Beef, pork, butter, candles, tallow, flour, meal, fruits, (dried Wheat, barley, rye, oats, bran, pease, beans, and lentils, the Hay, the 100 lbs.... Argol, aloes, gum, or wax, the ton All other articles not enumerated or otherwise described, the If ueasurement goods not otherwise enumerated or described, the 40 cubic feet.... Horses, mules, or asses, each. Horned cattle, each..... Sheep, goats, or pigs, each. EXEMPTIONS. 1st.-All public stores, naval or military baggage, and personal baggage of passengers, 2nd. All goods coastwise, whether shipped or landed, except imported goods upon which wharfage has not been once paid. 3rd.-Ships' stores outwards. 4th. All goods exported, upon which wharfage had been paid upon importation. No. 7.] [December 16, 1851. Ordinance for empowering the Commissioners for inquiring into the Rebellion in the Kat River Settlement and in other places upon the Eastern Frontier to take Evidence, and for punishing Perjury committed before the said Commissioners. [Temporary. Expired.] [December 16, 1851. No. 8.] Ordinance for applying a Sum not exceeding £201,484 18s. 11s. for the service of the year 1852. [Spent.] No. 9.] [December 20, 1851. Ordinance for the better Regulation of the Sale of Wines and Spirituous and Fermented Liquors. [Repealed by Act No. 28, 1883.] No. 1.] [February 6, 1852. Ordinance for remitting and releasing certain Loans of Money heretofore made from the Public Treasury of this Colony to or for the use of the Orange River Sovereignty. [Spent.] No. 2.] [April 3, 1852. Order for constituting a Parliament for the said Colony. No. 3.] [April 3, 1852. Ordinance for regulating in certain respects the Appropriation of the Revenue of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope by the Parliament thereof. [Vide Order in Council dated 11th March, 1853.] No. 4.-Sd. George Cathcart.] [April 3, 1852. Ordinance for Improving the Kowie Harbour. (1) [This Ordinance provides for the formation and management of the Kowie Harbour Improvement Company, which was dissolved by Proclamation dated 30th June, 1870. The following sections only, viz., §§ 35, 43, 44-46, 50, 51 and 53, require to be reprinted.] Proclamation of of wharfage dues. 35. And be it enacted that when and as soon as it shall be made to appear to the Governor aforesaid by the directors for the levy time being that the works aforesaid have been sufficiently advanced to permit the entrance of ships and vessels into the said harbour 1 See Acts 26, 1864; 10, 1866-67; 16, 1869; 11, 1874. Ord. 4-1852. Property in works vested in directors. it shall and may be lawful for the said Governor, by his proclamation to be issued for that purpose and published in the Government Gazette, to announce that from and after some certain day to be specified in such proclamation there shall be levied by and paid to the said directors or such other person or persons as shall be appointed to receive the same for their use upon all goods, articles, matters, and things landed or shipped in or at the said harbour such dues of wharfage not exceeding the several rates of dues respectively set forth in the schedule to this Ordinance as the said Governor shall approve of and appoint, and such dues from time to time by proclamation to alter, but so however as never to exceed the rates mentioned in the said schedule; and the said directors shall be entitled to recover by legal process all such dues from the owners of all goods, articles, matters, and things, landed or shipped respectively, and shall moreover have the right of retaining all goods, articles, matters, and things landed in or at such harbour in respect of which wharfage dues shall be payable until the same shall be paid, as well as the right of preventing any goods, articles, matters, or things from being shipped in or at the said habour until the wharfage dues payable in respect thereof shall have been paid; Provided that the said directors shall erect or provide such cranes and other conveniences as may be necessary for landing and shipping at the said harbour. 43. And be it enacted that the right to and property in all and singular the embankments, walls, piers, jetties, wharves, or other works constructed under the provisions of this Ordinance, as also to and in the said harbour itself, shall vest in the directors of the Extent of harbour, said company for the time being: Provided that the said harbour lending-place, &c. when completed shall be taken to extend from the end next the sea of the piers to be constructed at the entrance thereof, up to the spot or place in the Kowie River at which a line drawn parallel to the line of low water along the sea shore and at a distance from such low water line of one mile would cross the said river; and provided, also, that the said directors shall appoint fit and proper landing places in the said harbour, and that no articles shall be landed or shipped except at some such landing-place unless by permission of the said directors, under the penalty of forfeiting any sum not exceeding fifty pounds and not less than forty shillings, which sum shall be paid to the said directors for the purposes of this Ordinance. Power in directors dues. 44. And be it enacted that the directors for the time being may to farm out wharfage from time to time should they deem it expedient let or farm the wharfage dues payable in or at the said harbour, and all wharves, cranes, machines, or other conveniences provided by the said directors under this Ordinance at such rents and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon between the said directors Ord. 4--1852. Limitation of term and the person contracting with them: Provided that the said directors shall be bound to take good collateral security for the payment of the stipulated rent and that no such hiring shall be of hiring to one year. for any term exceeding one year; provided, also, that no such contract of hire shall be entered into before the Governor aforesaid shall have been informed of and shall have approved of the terms and conditions thereof and of the amount of rent proposed to be reserved. 45. And be it enacted that it shall and may be lawful for the Arrangements with said directors to make arrangements with any person or persons steam-tug. persons providing who shall be willing to provide and keep in or at the harbour aforesaid a steam-vessel of the sort commonly called a steam-tug for assisting vessels frequenting the said harbour, and such directors shall approve of a reasonable scale of fees or charges to be paid by vessels employing such steam-tug, and no higher fees or charges shall in any case be demandable or payable: Provided that the said directors before approving of any such scale shall submit the same to the Governor aforesaid and obtain his sanction; and provided, also, that no vessel shall be bound to employ or accept the assistance of such steam-tug. 46. And be it enacted that the owner of every vessel shall be answerable to the said directors for any damage done by such vessel through the wilful act or negligence of any person employed about the same to any of the works aforesaid or to the said harbour; and the master or other person in charge of such vessel by whose wilful act or negligence any such damage is done shall also be liable to make good the same, and the said directors may detain such vessel until sufficient security has been given for the amount of damage done by such vessel: Provided that every such owner who shall be obliged to pay or make good the amount of any damage arising from any wilful or negligent act or omission of any other person shall be entitled to recover from such other person the amount so paid. Liability of owners of ships for damage to works. 50. And be it enacted that as soon as the shareholders of the said company shall be fully repaid their paid-up capital with all interest or dividends due thereon as well as the certain bonus herein before provided then all and singular the works aforesaid and all land granted to or otherwise vested in the said directors and not sold or otherwise disposed of shall cease to be the property of the said directors and become thenceforth the property of Her Majesty the Queen in Her Colonial Govenment for public purposes, and this Ordinance shall thereupon cease and determine: Provided that the directors for the time being shall be bound to execute all necessary surrenders or other deeds requisite for vesting the said property in Her said Majesty. GG |