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All ballast shall be taken out of the channels.
None shall be thrown into the rivers or harbours,
Penalty 201. for the ballast-office.
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XII. And for the more effectual cleansing the said several harbours and rivers; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all ballast, that shall be taken in any of the said ports from and after the said twenty fifth day of April one thousand seven hundred and thirty, shall be taken out of the respective channels of the said rivers, and not from any part of the strands or banks, nor carried from one ship to supply another; and that no ballast shall be thrown out of any ship or boat into any part of any of the said harbours or rivers, upon pain of the master or commander’s forfeiting for every such offence the sum of twenty pounds sterling to the corporation, where the offence shall be committed, and for the benefit of the ballast-office of such corporation; to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his Majesty’s courts of record, wherein there shall be no essoign, protection, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance granted.
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