hereby for the recovery of the rates payable to the said company in respect of such ship; and every master or other person having the command of any ship or vessel in any of the said docks, &c. who shall not properly clear the deck of such ship, by stowing away such articles as impede the delivery of the cargo, upon being required so to do by such proper officer as aforesaid, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds. $117.

The commander or mate to be on board all the time of unloading.— The master, commander, or mate of every ship which shall load or unload in any of the said docks, &c. or some person appointed by him or by the owner of such ship for that purpose, shall, during all the time employed in loading, unloading, or discharging such ship, remain on board, and superintend and assist in such loading, unloading, or discharging; and every such master, &c. who shall neglect or refuse to superintend and assist in the loading, unloading, and discharging of the same, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds. § 118.

Goods landed in the docks, and lodged in the custody of the East India Company, to remain liable to claim for freight.-And whereas it frequently occurs that the owners or consignees of goods landed from ships in the docks of the said company are desirous that the same should be lodged in the custody of the East India Company; and it is expedient that in such cases the said goods should continue liable to claims for freight, in the same manner as if such goods had been lodged in the custody of the proprietors of the said docks; be it therefore further enacted, that all goods which shall be landed in any of the said docks, and lodged in the custody of the East India Company, (whether the same be deposited in the warehouses belonging to the said Dock Company, or be removed to the warehouses of the said East India Company,) shall, when so landed or deposited, continue liable to the same claim for freight, in favour of the master and owner of the respective ships out of which such goods shall be so landed, and of any other person interested in the freight of the same, as such goods were liable to whilst the same were on board such ships, and before the landing thereof; and the directors of the said East India Company, or their servants or agents, or any of them, shall, upon due notice in that behalf to them given by such master or owner, or other person, detain and keep such goods in the warehouses of the said London Dock Company, or of the said East India Company, (as the case may be,) until the respective freights shall be duly paid, together with the rates and charges to which the same shall have been subject and liable, or until a deposit shall have been made by the owner or consignee of such goods, equal in amount to the claims or demands made by the masters of the respective ships, for or on account of freight upon such goods; which deposit the said directors of the said East India Company, or their agents, are hereby authorized and directed to receive and hold in trust, until the claim for freight shall have been satisfied, upon proof of which, and demand made by the person or persons, their exe, cutors, &c. by whom the said deposit shall have been made, and the rates and charges due upon the said goods being first paid, the said deposit shall be returned to him or them by the said directors, or their agents, with whom the said deposit shall have been made as aforesaid:-provided always, that no notice to detain goods for payment of freight shall be available for the purpose aforesaid, unless the same be given to the said East India Company before the issue of the warrants or other usual documents for the delivery of such goods. §.119.

rectors empowered to make rules and regulations for clerks," of }, carmen, &c.—The directors to make such rules and regulations them shall seem expedient for the admission of ships, vessels, ers, or craft into, and of the removal thereof out of, the said docks, is, locks, or cuts, and for the more safe and convenient shipping lading, landing and discharging, carrying and conveying, laying, housing, and depositing of goods, wares, and merchandize upon, r from the quays or wharfs of the said company, and also in reof the hours during which the gates and entrances of the said ; and cuts, and the entrances, wickets, or footgates of the said s and premises, shall be open, and in respect of the persons who be permitted to be employed in and about the docks, quays, fs, warehouses, and premises of the said company; and also such and regulations as to them shall seem expedient for the better ention of accidents by fire, and in particular as to the lighting or g of candles, fires, and lamps, and as to the smoking of tobacco or s within the said docks, &c. and for the better governing and lating porters, &c.; and of all masters of vessels, pilots, lighter, and others within the said premises, and for preventing damage g done to shipping, lighters, and craft, or to any goods, wares, or chandize; and also from time to time, as they shall see occasion, peal, annul, add to, amend, or alter such rules and regulations › them the said directors shall seem meet or requisite, and to affix appoint reasonable pecuniary penalties, not exceeding forty shil8 for any one offence, for the non-observance, non-performance, or r breach of all or any such rules or regulations, or any part of n. § 120.

uthenticated by-laws, rules, &c. to be evidence.—And be it further cted, that in all cases of prosecution for offences against the said bys, constitutions, and ordinances, and rules and regulations respecly, the production of a written or printed paper, purporting to be the aws, constitutions, and ordinances, or to be the rules and regulas of the said company, fas the case may be,) and authenticated by ing the cominon seal of the said company affixed thereto, shall be lence of the existence of such by-laws, constitutions, and ordinances, of such rules and regulations respectively; and it shall, as to such es and regulations, be sufficient to prove that a copy thereof hath n printed and affixed in manner by this act directed, and in case of being afterwards displaced, obliterated, or defaced, that it hath been laced by another such copy as well as consistently might be, unless of shall be adduced by the defendant that the same is not a copy of h by-laws, constitutions, and ordinances, rules and regulations pectively, or that a copy of such rules and regulations hath not been y kept, affixed up, and generally continued in manner by this act eeted. § 123.

Penalty on breaking or extinguishing lamps.-If any person shall fully damage, break, demolish, or throw down any lamp, lamp iron, mp furniture, pillar, post, or fence, which hath been set up by the said mpany within, near unto, or about any of the premises of the said npany, or any building erected, or shall wilfully extinguish the light thin any such lamp, every such person so offending shall forfeit and y any sum not exceeding forty shillings for each lamp, &c. so broken, rown down, or damaged, or for every light extinguished as aforesaid,' d moreover shall make such satisfaction to the said company for the mage so done as the justice by whom such forfeiture shall be ad

judged shall deem proper; which satisfaction shall and may be recovered in like manner and by the same remedies as the penalties by this act imposed. 124.

Powers of dock masters.-Every dock master of the said company shall have full power and authority to direct the mooring, unmooring, moving or removing of all ships and vessels, lighters and craft, coming into or going out of, or lying or being in any of the said docks, basins, locks, or cuts, and the time or times and manner of their entrance into lying in, or going out of the same, and their position, loading, and discharging therein, and the time or times of opening or shutting the several gates thereof; and in case the owner, master, pilot, servant, or other person having the care of any ship, vessel, lighter, or craft, shall refuse or neglect to obey any such order or direction within one hour after notice to him or them given in writing, or left with some person or persons on board the said ship, &c. for that purpose, the said dock master may moor, unmoor, move, or remove such ship or vessel, lighter or craft; and the charges and expenses thereof respectively shall be repaid, together with the sum of ten pounds for each offence, by the master or owner of such ship, &c. and may be recovered by the said company from the owner of such ship, &c. in case of non-payment thereof on demand, by such ways and means as penalties and forfeitures are by this act to be recovered; and in case any master or any other person whomsoever shall obstruct or hinder the due execution of any such direction or order so to be given by such dock master, every such person shall forfeit any sum not exceeding ten pounds, to be recovered and applied as hereinafter directed. § 125.

For preventing the obstruction of the dock entrances.-Every master or other person having the charge or command of any ship, lighter, barge, boat, or other vessel of any description whatsoever, who shall place or permit or suffer the same to remain in the river Thames within two hundred yards of any of the entrances to the said docks, basins, locks, or cuts, unless for the purpose of coming into or going out of the same, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds; and every master of any ship, lighter, &c. so placed within such distance, (whether for the purpose aforesaid or not,) who shall not immediately remove such ship, &c. from within such distance on being thereunto required by the dock master, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds for every hour that such obstruction shall remain after such requisition made; and in case the master of such ship, &c. shall not remove the same immediately upon being required so to do, it shall be lawful for the said dock master and his assistant to remove the same. § 126.

For regulating the mooring of vessels at the buoys, &c. of the company. -No ship or vessel, lighter or craft, shall lie at any of the buoys, or make fast to any of the dolphins, mooring posts, or mooring craft of the said company in the river Thames, save only such as is or are intended to go into, or which within six hours last past shall have come out of, the said docks, basins, locks, or cuts, except with the special permission of one of the dock masters of the company; and every master, pilot, and other person or persons having the charge or command of any ship, vessel, lighter, or craft lying or moored or having made fast at any of the said buoys, &c. shall remove therefrom such ship, &c. under his or their command, within six hours after being required so to do by the said dock master or his assistant, under the penalty of a sum not exceeding twenty shillings for every hour any such ship, vessel,

r, or craft shall remain at any of the said buoys, dolphins, or ing posts or craft, after such requisition as aforesaid. § 127.

vessel to enter into or navigate in the docks under sail-Before hip or other vessel shall enter into the said docks, basins, locks, or or any of them, such ship shall, unless the special permission e of the dock masters shall have been given to the contrary, have ails lowered or furled, so that she may not enter under sail, under ty of twenty pounds. § 128.

ck master to direct dismantling, &c. of vessels.-Every dock er shall have full power and authority to order all ships and ls entering the said docks, &c. to be dismantled in such manner as ay think proper and safe for the vessels entering the said docks, for the prevention of accident or mischief to other ships, lighters, or to the said docks, basins, &c. and during the time of every ship's ery, or when discharged of her cargo, to have such quantity of ist on board, or dead weight in her hold, as he may judge requisite uch ship or vessel, &c. and no ship or vessel shall be allowed to enter said docks, &c. unless she shall be so dismantled, nor shall any ship essel be unladen so far as to render her insecure through the want weight in her hold, or of such quantity of ballast on board, as the dock master may think expedient; and every such dock master I also have full power and authority to give directions for topping, cing, or striking yards and masts, taking in running bowsprits, and having substantial hawsers and tow lines and fasts to the dolphin, oring craft, buoys, mooring posts or rings, and also to regulate the ipment, rigging, and lading of all ships and vessels in the said ks, &c. as he shall think necessary; and in case he shall judge any or proceeding in the rigging, lading, or equipment of any ship or sel, injurious to the safety of such ship, or to other ships or vessels g in or entering or departing from the said docks, or to the said ks or works, he shall give notice to the master or other person having charge or command of such ship or vessel to discontinue and alter same; and in case such master or other person shall not according such direction suspend or alter such act or proceeding immediately er notice given to him or them, or some person or persons on board said ship or vessel for that purpose, or if any ship, lighter, craft, or -sel shall be left in the said dock or docks, &c. without any person or rsons on board, the master or other person having the command of ery such ship or vessel, or the owner thereof, shall pay any sum not ceeding five pounds; and the owner of such ship or vessel shall also answerable for all the injury that may be sustained by any other ips or vessels, or by the said company, through neglect thereof. 129.

Dock master or his assistant to remove or order out light vessels.-The ock master shall so soon as any ship or vessel shall have discharged her rgo, remove or cause to be removed such ship or vessel from the quays wharfs into such part of the said docks, &c. as he shall think proper, d upon giving twenty-four hours previous notice in writing to one of e owners, or to the master or person having the command thereof espectively, order out of the said docks, &c. all light ships or vessels; ad the owner, master, or other person having the command of any uch ship or vessel, who shall refuse or neglect to remove the same after uch notice as aforesaid, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five ounds; and in case of such neglect or refusal the dock master may re

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moye such ship or vessel out of the said docks, &e and day or moor the same in any part of the river Thames within high water mark, as conveniently as may be; and the owner, master, &c. shall pay and make good to the said dock master the charges and expenses of removing and mooring such ship or vessel accordingly; (such charges and expenses being first allowed by the said directors;) and if the same be not accordingly paid within five days after demand, the amount shall be recoverable by distress and sale of such ship or vessel, all or any of her tackle, apparel, or furniture, or any part thereof, the company rendering the overplus, (if any,) after deducting the charges of taking, keeping, and selling of such distress, to the owner or master, &c upon the same being demanded. § 130.

Dock master to direct the removal of lighters and craft.-If any lighter, barge, or other craft, either after having any goods taken or unladen thereout, or which shall enter or be in the said docks, basins, locks, or cuts, for the purpose or under pretext of taking or carrying goods from or out of the said docks, &c. or for any other purpose or under any other pretext whatsoever, shall remain or continue in the said docks, &c. for any longer space of time than twenty-four hours, it shall be lawful for the dock master to give notice in writing to any owner of such lighter, by delivery of such notice to him, or by leaving the same at his dwelling-house, counting-house, or place of carrying on business, or by delivery thereof to the person in charge of such lighter, if any there shall be, to remove such lighter, from and out of the said docks, &c.; and if any such lighter shall not be removed within twelve hours after such notice shall be given, the owner shall forfeit and pay the sum of forty shillings for the first twenty-four hours, and the sum of twenty shillings for every further period of twenty-four hours, during which any such lighter shall remain, contrary to the provisions herein contained, the payment whereof shall and may be enforced and recovered in such manner as any other penalty or penalties of the like amount or amounts is or are recoverable under this act. § 131.

Goods of a dangerous nature sent to the docks, to be marked. Every person who shall send to the said dock premises, for shipment, any aquafortis, oil of vitriol, or other goods or merchandize of a dangerous quality, shall distinctly mark or state the nature of such goods on the outside of the box, case, cask, bale, or package containing the same, or shall otherwise give due notice thereof to the superintendent of the said docks at the time of so sending the said goods to the said dock premises, on pain of forfeiting for every default herein the sum of twenty pounds. § 132.

Penalty for not removing combustibles when required.—If the owner or the person in or to whose custody or charge any tar, pitch, rosin, hemp, flax, faggots, furze, brandy or other spirituous liquors, turpentine, oil, hay, straw, tallow, grease, shavings of wood, or any combustible matter whatsoever shall be intrusted, shall permit or suffer the same, or any part thereof respectively, to be and remain on the quays, wharfs, or works aforesaid, or any part thereof, or upon the deck of any ship, lighter, barge, boat, or other vessel in the said docks, &c. above the space of two hours after he shall have been required by the dock master to remove the same therefrom, in every such case every such person shall forfeit and pay, at the discretion of the justice who shall take cognizance thereof, any sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than the sum of twenty shillings, for every hour that any of the articles