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and provide boats, workmen, and tools to raise ballast in any parts of the channels within verge of their authority,
and furnish ships in 24 hours after notice, or 12 hours after wind and weather permit.
Sunday not accounted:
brought to ships sides, and immediately thrown in by the crews.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor, sheriffs, and commonality of the said city of Cork, the mayor, sheriffs, free burgesses, and Commonality of the said town and county of the town of Gallway, the provost, burgesses, and freemen of the said town of Sligoe, the mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commons of the said town and county of the town of Drogheda, and the sovereign and free burgesses of the town of Belfast, shall severally and respectively within their several ports provide a sufficient number of lighters, boats, or gabbarts, together with workmen, tools, and engines, for the raising the ballast in any parts of the channels or rivers of the said harbours or ports, that shall be by them respectively judged expedient, within the verge or verges of the counties of the said city and towns respectively, or the extent of their respective authorities; and shall furnish all ships within the said ports with ballast at the rates herein after mentioned within twenty four hours after notice given by the commanders or masters of the said ships to the proper officers at the said several ballast offices, for that purpose to be appointed to receive such notifications, so as wind and weather will within that time permit them; and in case wind and weather will not then permit them so to furnish ballast, then within twelve hours after wind and weather will permit: provided always that the Lord’s day, commonly called Sunday, shall not be accounted any part of the twenty four hours or twelve hours aforesaid: the said ballast to be brought to the sides of the ships that shall have occasion for the same, and thence immediately thrown into such ship or ships by the crews of the said ships respectively.
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