ing that there is just ground to suspect the existence of contagion on board, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. Every vessel, the master of which shall have declined to sign a certificate of health as above prescribed, shall, upon entering port, be liable to seizure, confiscation, and sale. If the pilot, after boarding any vessel, shall discover any existence of a contagious disease, he shall not return on shore, neither shall it be lawful for any of the ship's company or passengers to land or communicate with the shore, or board any other vessel, without permission of the board of health, or the collector, under penalty of a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. The pilots of Honolulu shall bring the vessel which they may take charge of, fully within the harbor (within the inner buoy, unless otherwise directed by the harbor master) and anchor her in a suitable and convenient place, under penalty of forfeiting their commission. No pilot shall take out any vessel that may be under attachment or arrest by virtue of any process, nor before she has obtained her clearance, under penalty of forfeiting his commission and paying a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. If any foreign vessel, or Hawaiian vessel engaged in foreign trade, shall enter or depart from any of the ports for which pilots may be appointed, without a pilot, such vessel shall be liable to one-half pilotage. All vessels anchoring outside the reef at Honolulu shall, when so requested by the harbor master or any pilot, change their anchorage and anchor in such place as he may direct, under penalty of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. At ports where there are no pilots, the regularly appointed boarding officers shall do and perform all the duties prescribed for pilots. The pilot's fees, boarding officer's fees, and health fees shall form a part of the port charges, which shall be paid by every vessel to the collector of the port before a clearance is granted. Pilot's fees, from May 30, 1874. Health fee.. On all war vessels, mail steamers, and vessels under 200 tons.. On all other vessels over 200 tons. But no vessel to be charged more than $50, in or out. For anchoring a vessel outside... In case said vessel comes into the harbor. The harbor masters of Honolulu and Hilo shall have authority over the anchoring, mooring, and making fast of all hulks, coasters, boats, and other craft in their respective harbors, and are charged in general with the enforcement of all harbor regulations. They shall also be wharfingers at the ports for which they are appointed. They shall be entitled to receive, in addition to their usual fees, all amounts disbursed by them for the use of boats, warps, and labor in mooring and making fast any vessel, and if necessarily detained on board more than two hours at any one time, they shall be paid at the rate of one dollar per hour for such extra detention. All vessels that may enter any port shall be anchored in the place designated by the harbor master, and moved from one anchorage to another as he may direct; and no vessel, excepting coasting vessels under fifty tons burthen and vessels about to leave the harbor, shall quit her anchorage or moorings until the commanding officer shall have received the written permission of the harbor master, under a penalty of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. The harbor master or any pilot, while removing a vessel from one anchorage or mooring to another, may make fast to any other vessel, or to any warp or wharf; and any person resisting the same, cutting away or casting off the warp or fastening, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and if such person belong to any vessel, the master of such vessel shall be responsible for any damage resulting from such resistance, cutting away or casting off, as well as for the fine imposed upon the offender. In order to facilitate the removing and placing of vessels in their proper berths, all vessels in the harbor shall, when requested by the harbor master or any pilot, slack down their steam cables and other fastenings, and also their bower chains, under penalty of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. All vessels entering port shall, if so requested by the harbor master or any pilot, rig in her jib, flying jib and spanker booms and spritsail yards, and top their lower and topsail yards, within twenty-four hours after anchoring in such port, and in all cases before attempting to come alongside of or make fast to either of the docks or wharves, and keep them so rigged in and topped until within twenty-four hours before leaving the harbor, and until after removing from any wharf or dock, under penalty of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. No combustible materials such as pitch, tar, rosin, or oil, shall be heated on board any vessel within the harbor of Honolulu; but all such combustible articles shall be heated either on shore, or in a boat, or on a raft, at a reasonable distance from the vessel, of which distance the harbor master shall be the judge. Every person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. No stones or other rubbish shall be thrown from any vessel into the harbor of Honolulu or Hilo, under penalty of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and the master of the vessel from which the same are thrown shall be subject to a like fine. Any person who shall leave or cause to be left, for the space of six hours, upon the shores or reefs of any harbor in this kingdom, any dead animal, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and shall cause the same to be removed without delay. Every vessel taking on board or discharging any ballast or coals within the harbor of Honolulu shall have a tarpaulin properly stretched and spread so as to prevent any from falling into the water, under penalty of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. No vessel having gunpowder on board will be permitted to remain at the wharf more than twelve hours, and if the vessel shall be at the wharf over night a policeman or watchman shall be kept on duty on board all night. All gunpowder deposited on the wharf for shipment shall be immediately passed on board the vessel to receive the same. HARBOR MASTER'S CHARGES. Wharfage. Perregistered ton (Sundays and Government holidays not counted).. 2 cents per day. Storage. Bricks, coal, coolers, kettles, stone ballast, sand (space of 32 square Oil, on wharves, for every 10 barrels... Boarding vessel on arrival Shipping, each man.. Harbor master's fees. 1 cent per day. 1 cent per day. 1 cent per day. pounds..cent per day. Shipping and discharging native seamen. Discharging foreign seamen. (All the above charges must be paid by the ship.) Seaman's permit, each man... Seaman's bond, each man BOAT REGULATIONS, PORT OF Honolulu. $0.50 1 00 50 The owner of any boat duly licensed for the harbor of Honolulu shall be entitled, if hired on time, to charge one dollar for each passenger for the first hour, and fifty cents for each succeeding hour, if the boat have four or more oars, and only half these fares if the boat have less than four oars. If hired by distance, twenty-five cents for each passenger to and from any ship or point within the inner buoy; fifty cents to and from any point between the inner and outer buoys; and two dollars to and from any ship or point in the anchorage outside of the buoys, if the boat have four oars, and only half of said fares if the boat have less than four oars; provided, always, that if the boat shall be detained by any passenger alongside of any ship, or at any point, over fifteen minutes, the owner shall be entitled to charge fifty cents additional for every half hour of such detention. Any person plying a licensed boat who shall refuse to take a passenger at the rates prescribed in the preceding sections, or who shall charge any person more than the said rates, shall be fined five dollars. Every person hiring any such boat shall be entitled to carry with him, free of charge, one hundred pounds of luggage or goods, and no more; and for all extra luggage or goods he shall pay according to agreement with the person plying the boat. LIGHT-HOUSES. HONOLULU. A light-house has been erected on the inner edge of the Western Reef, bounding the entrance of the channel into Honolulu Harbor. The light is a Fresnel of the fourth order, at an elevation of 26 feet above the sea level, and can be seen from the deck of an ordinary-sized vessel at a distance of 9 nautical miles, in a radius from S. E. by E. to W. from the light-house. From the light-house the spar or fairway buoy bears (magnetic) S. 11° W., 6 cables; the eastern end of the new wharf, N. 35° E., 14 cables; Diamond Point, S. 56° E.; Barber's Point, S. 88° W., and the eastern corner of the custom-house, N. 15o E., near to which corner another light-tower has been erected, at an elevation of 28 feet above the sea level, and can be seen about 5 miles out at sea. The light in this tower is green. To enter the harbor by night, bring these two lights in one, bearing N. 15° E. (magnetic), and keep them in one till within a cable's length of the light-house on the reef, when by hauling a point to the eastward you will avoid the end of the spit on which the light-house is built, extending off from it about 25 feet to the eastward. Steer for the east end of the new wharf, and when half way between the light on the reef and the new wharf, keep away N. W. and along the esplanade to an anchorage inside. All bearings magnetic. HILO, HAWAII. A light-house has been erected at Paukaa Point, entrance to Hilo Harbor, Hawaii. The light is at an elevation of fifty feet above the sea level, a plain fixed light, and can be seen easily ten miles out at sea. From the light-house the outer point of the reef bears S. 58° E.; inner point of the reef, S. 39° E.; Governess' flagstaff (about the center of the harbor), S. 220 E.; Leleiwi Point, S. 79° E.; and Makahanaloa Point, N. 20 W. Bearings magnetic. KAWAIHAE, HAWAII. For the anchorage at Kawaihae a white light, about fifty feet above the sea level, has been erected at a point bearing from the northeast corner of the reef N. E. by N. N. The light can be seen at a distance of ten miles out at sea. With this light bearing E. N. E. there is good anchorage in eight fathoms of water about a quarter of a mile from the shore. All bearings magnetic. LAHAINA, MAUI. A light-house has been erected at the landing, port of Lahaina. The window on the sea side of the light-room is of 20×24-inch glass, with red glass at the northwest and southeast end. The colored glass stands at equal angles, side and front, and a vessel in ten fathoms of water will have two bright lights for about half a mile each way from directly in front of the light-house. At a greater distance it will show a colored light until the lights almost appear like one, or the red light like a reflection from the other light. The light towards Molokai is the brightest, so that the lights now have the appearance of a large and small light close together. The lights stand about 26 feet above the water, and can be seen across the Lanai Channel. TARIFF ACT, 1878. AN ACT to amend an act entiled "An act to increase the import duties upon certain goods," approved the 27th day of September, A. D. 1876. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the King and the Legislative Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands in the Legislature of the Kingdom assembled, That section 1 of an act to increase the import duties on certain goods, approved the 27th day of September, A. D. 1876, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Section 1. There shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the following goods imported into this kingdom duties, ad ralorem, as follows, to wit: Silks, satins, and silk velvet, and all articles of which silk shall form the principal material, ten per cent.; Clothing, ready-made, and wearing apparel of every description, made up in whole or in part, ten per cent.; Carriages of all descriptions, ten per cent.; Hats and caps of all kinds, ten per cent.; Linens, and all manufactures of which flax, grass-cloth, or a similar material shall form the principal part, ten per cent.; Crockery and glassware of every description, ten per cent.; Drugs and medicines, patent and other, ten per cent.; Furniture of all kinds, if upholstered or carved, manufactured in whole or in part, ten per cent.; Millinery goods, beads, braids, bonnets, buttons, corsets, collars, sleeves and cuffs, edgings, dowers (artificial), feathers (fancy), fringes for clothing and for upholstery, ten per cent.; Gloves and mitts, not otherwise provided for, ten per cent.; Gimps for clothing, ten per cent.; Hoop-skirts, ten per cent.; Hooks and eyes, ten per cent.; Insertions, laces, and lace goods of all descriptions, ten per cent.; Ribbons not otherwise provided for, ten per cent.; Silver plate, plated ware or gilt ware, ten per cent.; Britannia ware and fancy metal ware, ten per cent.; Tea, ten per cent.; Matches of all kinds, ten per cent.; Cigarettes and all descriptions of paper cigars, twenty-five per cent.; Jewelry and all descriptions of metal, glass, or stone beads, ten per cent.; Paintings, pictures, engravings, statuary, bronzes, ornamental work of metal, stone, marble, plaster of Paris or alabaster, and all imitations thereof, ten per cent.; Perfumery (other than that which pays a spirit duty), powders, hair, tooth, nail and other toilet brushes, ten per cent.; Soap, ten per cent.; Pipes (smoking), pipe-stems, bowls and fixtures, cigar-holders, twenty-five per cent.; Candles, ten per cent.; Candies, twenty-five per cent.; Peanut oil, twenty-five per cent.; Toys, ten per cent.; Fire-arms, ten per cent.; Ammunition, ten per cent.; Fireworks and tire-crackers, twenty-five per cent.; Watches and clocks, in whole or in part, ten per cent.; Playing-cards, ten per cent.; SEC. 2. That section 2 of the said act be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Sec. 2. There shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the following goods imported into this kingdom specific duties, as follows, to wit: On kid and other leather and skin gloves, three dollars per dozen pairs; On cigars and cheroots, ten dollars per thousand; On China tobacco, fifty cents per pound; On camphor trunks, in nests of four, two dollars per nest; and in nests of two, one dollar per nest; On China matting, one dollar per roll; On port, sherry, Madeira, and other wines of like nature above eighteen per cent. of alcoholic strength; also on all cordials, bitters, and other articles of any name or description containing alcohol, or preserved in alcohol or spirits above that rate of strength and below thirty per cent., unless otherwise provided for, two dollars per gallon; On champagne, sparkling Moselle, and sparkling hock, three dollars per dozen reputed. quarts, and one dollar and fifty cents per dozen reputed pints; On claret, Rhine wine, and other light wines under eighteen per cent. of alcoholic strength, not otherwise provided for, forty cents per dozen reputed quarts, twenty cents per dozen for reputed pints, and fifteen cents per gallon if in bulk; On ale, porter, cider, and all fermented drinks not otherwise provided for, forty cents per dozen reputed quarts, twenty cents per dozen reputed pints, and fifteen cents per gallon if in bulk. SEC. 3. The provisions of this act shall extend and apply to all goods in bond at the time it shall come into operation. Approved this 1st day of August, A. D. 1878. KALAKAUA R. AUSTRALASIA. VICTORIA. TARIFF OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. [Transmitted to the Department of State by the consul-general of the United States at Melbourne.] IMPORTED BY LAND OR SEA. Meats and fish, preserved, not salted or dried or preserved in brine.... Meats, potted.. Spices, ground Sugar candy.. Almonds 2d. per pint or pound, or reputed package of that quantity or weight, and so in proportion for any such reputed quantity or weight. Ale, porter, spruce and other beer, cider and perry: For six reputed quart bottles or for twelve reputed pint bottles.... In wood or in bottles containing an Imperial quart or pint, respectively. Axles: Common dray, with linchpins... 25 per cent. ad valorem. Common nut and others not enumerated, up to 1 inch diameter, 38. per arm. inclusive. All other (except gunnies and sugar mats). Boots and shoes-Present English sizes to be the standard (except chil dren's, Nos. 0 to 3), viz: Men's, No. 6 and upwards... Youths', Nos. 2 to 5 Boys', Nos. 7 to 1.. Women's, Nos. 3 and upwards Girls', Nos. 11 to 2 Girls', Nos. 7 to 10.. Children's, Nos. 4 to 6, and slippers.... Women's "lasting" and "stuff" boots. Goloshes of all kinds.. Slippers, men's, women's, and children's, from No. 7 and upwards.. Bottles containing pickles.. Bricks, fire.. Cards, playing.. Carriages (including second-hand) and carts (see exemption list): All carts and wagons without springs, and spring carts and spring drays with two wheels. |