PORT OF ORANGE, TEX.

PORT CUSTOMS AND REGULATIONS

FEDERAL SERVICES AND REGULATIONS

For information relative to Federal services and regulations, see page 141.

LOCAL REGULATIONS

The following extracts from regulations, promulgated by ordinance of the City Council of Orange, Texas, are published in the Orange Wharf and Dock Commission Tariff No. 1-E effective January 31, 1938:

Conduct of vessels in harbor.-The Wharf and Dock Commission under and according to the ordinances and regulations of the city, shall regulate and prescribe the mode and speed of each and every kind of steamboat, ship, vessel, barge, boat, and other water craft of any kind whatsoever, on entering and leaving the harbors, wharves, docks, and slips of the city and the disposition of the sails, anchors, and other appurtenances of each and every kind thereof, while entering, leaving, or abiding in such harbor or wharves or slips or docks, and such changes of station and uses of the harbors, slips, docks, or wharves by each and every user thereof, as may be necessary to promote order and facilitate traffic and business, and to secure safety and equal convenience to every user thereof.

Obstructions. No piles shall be driven nor shall any platform be erected nor shall any filling in, or construction, repairs, alterations, removals, dredging, or demolition of any kind be made on any part of the water front of the city without a written permit therefor being first had and obtained from the Board of Wharf and Dock Commissioners.

When fasts of vessels extend across a dock so as to obstruct passing, the captain or person in charge shall, when so ordered by the Board of Wharf and Dock Commissioners, cause the fasts to be slackened off or cast off, or arranged so as not to obstruct work on the dock.

Kind and quantity of cargo received or discharged.-The owner, agent, manager, consignee, master, or person in charge of any vessel must, and if possible before her departure from any municipal dock or wharf, deliver to the harbor master a full and correct statement, signed by him, of all the merchandise and cargo of every kind received on such vessel at such dock or wharf, specifying the character and quantity of each kind of such merchandise or cargo.

The owner, agent, manager, master, or person in command of any vessel must deliver, as soon as possible after her arrival at any municipal dock or wharf to the harbor master, a full and correct statement, signed by him, of all the merchandise and cargo of every kind intended to be discharged from such vessel at said wharf, specifying the character and quantity of each kind of such merchandise or cargo.

Manner of tying to wharf.-No person shall make fast any rope or mooring to any municipal dock or wharf, or to any shed or piles supporting same, or to the fender piles, but must tie to the mooring piles, mooring bitts, or cavils provided for that purpose.