TITLE (H.) Harbour Master. 17th, 1806. Preamble. Whereas the safety and tranquillity of this city, as Pressed, Feb. well as good order and propriety, render it expedient and necessary to amend the present regulations of the port; and to make sundry alterations in the existing system of the Harbour Master's department: 1. Be it ordained, That all vessels in the harbour of Charleston shall hereafter be subject to the follow- to regulations. ing regulations, viz. 1. No vessel shall remain unmoored longer than one tide on her arrival in port, and one tide on her departure therefrom. 2. No vessel shall remain at anchor in the river, and in front of any of the wharves, unless her distance from the outermost vessel at the end of the opposite wharf or wharves be at least fifty fathoms, excepting however, such vessels as are hereinafter ordered to lay off at a distance of one hundred fathoms. 3. No vessel shall under any pretence whatever, be hauled to any wharf or into any dock, until her yards are topped, her jib and spanker booms rigged in, her spritsail yards put fore and aft, and such of her anchors as are not in use, hove on the forecastle deck, or other suitable part of the vessel, so as not to obstruct the passing of other vessels by her sides. 4. No vessel shall take such a position in or near any dock, as to prevent other vessels from getting in and out. 5. No fast shall be run athwart any of the docks, unless it be for the purpose of warping away with it immediately. 6. Every vessel, laying at the head of a wharf, shall run out two anchors, one forward, and another aft, and shall lay her cable from her inner bow, and under her inner counter. 7. Every vessel lying at the head of a wharf, from D'Oyley's to Prioleau's wharf, (Geyer's south, Crafts' north, and Blake's wharf excepted) shall lay with her Vessels subject Regulations. Regulations. head towards the south, and every vessel, lying at the head of Geyer's south, Crafts' north, and Blake's wharf, or any of the other wharves, from Prioleau's to Gadsden's, shall lay with her head towards the north, except in such cases, where there is not room to lay so, without obstructing the passage into the next dock. 8. Every vessel, laying fore and aft in a dock, shall have an anchor out abaft, and under her inner counter, and shall run her anchor either east by north, or east by south, as the case may require, or as the Harbour Master may direct. 9. No vessel shall take or keep a birth at any wharf contrary to the Harbour Master's directions, it being lawful for, and incumbent on him, to fix the births of all vessels. 10. Every vessel, being in ballast, or being light, or taking in a cargo at any wharf, shall slack her fasts, and give an inside birth to a loaded vessel, if at the time of application for an inside birth, there be no other vacant or equally suitable birth for such loaded vessel, either at the same wharf, or at the next adjoining wharves. 11. No loaded vessel shall be allowed more than fifteen days for the discharge of her cargo, and no vessel, whose cargo is retailed on board, shall keep an inside birth, when a loaded vessel, whose cargo is to be landed immediately, wants it, but shall give way to the latter immediately. 12. No naval stores shall be landed at any wharf, except at those particularly designated for that purpose, by an act or acts of the legislature of this state; and no vessel, having on board hay or blades, shall land more at one time than two bundles, or one dray load of either, and the landing of any more shall be delayed until the preceding parcel, as aforesaid, hath been removed from the wharf. 13. No pitch, tar, or turpentine, shall under any pretence whatever, be boiled on any wharf, or on board of any vessel, but for such boiling, a tub of sand or earth shall be put in a boat, and the same moored off to a buoy in the stream. 14. No ballast, rubbish, dirt or other stuff shall be hrown into any dock, but every dock shall be kept Regulations. open and free from obstruction and other nuisances. 15. No vessel shall be left entirely vacant or destitute, but every vessel shall always have on board a ship keeper or other white person, capable to take charge of her. 16. No vessel importing negroes from abroad, shall remain at anchor in the river, and in front of any of the wharves, unless her distance from the outermost vessel at the end of the opposite wharf or wharves, be at least one hundred fathoms, and no vessel of this description shall, under any pretence whatever, be hauled into any dock, or to any wharf but Gadsden's wharf, while any such imported negroes is, or are on board; and after discharging such imported negroes in the stream, or after landing them at Gadsden's wharf, none of them shall be received on board the same vessel, in which they were imported, or on board any other vessel, with a view to expose them for sale at another wharf, or for other sinister purposes. of a vessel to &c. 17. Every captain or commander of a vessel, as Every captain soon as he hath made his entry at the Custom-House, make out a list shall deliver to the Harbour Master, when demand- of passengers, ed, a true and complete list, signed with his own hand, of all his passengers, servants, as well as others, in which he shall mention their christian and surnames, their places of nativity and of residence, their occupations or professions, and other particulars relating to their circumstances respectively, and shall also certify whether he considers any of them as a pauper or paupers, and likely to become burthensome to this community. this ordinance. 18. In order that no captain or commander of a vessel may plead ignorance, or otherwise pretend to` excuse himself, it shall be the duty of the Harbour Captain to reMaster to furnish every captain or commander of a ceive a copy of vessel, immediately on his arrival in the port, with a copy of this ordinance, and with a printed form of the list and certificate, which he is to sign, as aforesaid, and every captain or commander of a vessel shall pay one dollar to the Harbour Master, when by him furnished with the papers aforesaid. pay. 2. That every captain, commander or owner of a vessel, refusing or neglecting to comply with any of the foregoing regulations from the first to the fifteenth For refusal to inclusive, shall forfeit and pay to the use of the city the sum of twenty dollars, with costs for the first day, and the further sum of fifty dollars with costs for every subsequent day on which he so refuses or neg lects to comply with any such regulation. And every captain, commander or owner of a vessel, refusing or neglecting to comply with the sixteenth article of the foregoing regulations, or any part thereof, shall forfeit and pay to the use of the city, the sum of fifty dollars with costs for the first day, and the further sum of eighty dollars with costs for every subsequent day on which he refuses or neglects to comply with the said sixteenth regulation or any part thereof. Penalties. Provsso. 3. That if any captain or commander of a vessel If the captain hath brought any passenger or passengers, being a brings a pauper passenger, he pauper or paupers, and likely to become burthengives bond, &c some to this community, he shall, for each and every such passenger enter into bond with such surety or sureties, and in such a sum, as shall be approved of, and required by the City Council, and shall thereby obligate himself to keep the city free, safe and indemnified from and against all charges and expences for the support and relief of the person for whom he became bound as aforesaid, or otherwise to convey again, or cause to be conveyed, such person out of this city within the space of three months after his or her arrival. Provided however, That such bond and security shall not be exacted from a captain or commander of a vessel, in the case of any such passenger, who was formerly an inhabitant of this state, or had the misfortune of being disabled and becoming infirm during the passage. And if any captain or commander of a vessel, shall not within one week after his arrival give bond and security in the cases and for the purposes aforesaid, the vessel, in which such pauper or paupers came hither, shall be liable for all charges and expences, which may be incurred, both for supporting such pauper or paupers, during his, her or their stay in Charleston, and for sendthe same off again. And if any captain or commander fuse, the ves of a vessel shall refuse or neglect to deliver to the If captain reHarbour Master such a list and certificate, as is pre-selis liable to scribed in the seventeeth regulation aforesaid, or if all expences. he shall omit therein the name or other circumstances of any of his passengers, or if he shall otherwise make a false representation concerning his passengers or any of them, he shall for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city, the sum of one hundred dollars. And whenever the Harbour Master receives information of the arrival Penalty. of a pauper or paupers in any vessel, he shall give immediate notice thereof to the Intendant. 4. That it shall be the bounden duty of the Harbour Master, and he is hereby vested with full power and authority, not only to take care, and to use Harbour Master's duty. his best exertions, that the foregoing regulations be, in every respect, promptly and punctually observed, maintained, enforced and executed, but to take legal measures against every person, that may violate or transgress any of the said regulations, and to prosecute without delay, every such offender, before a court of justice, having competent jurisdiction to try and punish any such offence. And the said Harbour Master shall also have full power and authority to cut the fast or fasts of any vessel within an half hour after notice given, when the captain or commander thereof refuses or neglects within that time, to slack the same, or to moor such vessel, according to law. And if a vessel is prevented from coming into a dock or to a wharf, by the improper position of another vessel, and the captain commander or owner of the latter vessel, refuses or neglects to remove her to another place in the same dock, or at the same wharf, when pointed out to and requested of him by the Harbour Master, it shall be lawful for, and the duty of the Harbour Master, to remove such vessel by the aid of such hands and means as may be tendered him for that purpose, by the owner or warfinger of such wharf or dock, or by the master or owner of the vessel, that would otherwise be prevented from coming to the wharf, or in the dock.— Provided, That such hands and means be adequate and sufficient to effect such removal. And if any R |
