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HARBOURS, DOCKS, AND PIERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 56 

Harbour master may remove wrecks, &c.

56. The harbour master may remove any wreck or other obstruction to the
harbour, dock, or pier, or the approaches to the same, and also any floating
timber which impedes the nagivation thereof, and the expence of removing any
such wreck, obstruction, or floating timber shall be repaid by the owner of
the same; and the harbour master may detain such wreck or floating timber for
securing the expences, and on nonpayment of such expences, on demand, may sell
such wreck or floating timber, and out of the proceeds of such sale pay such
expences, rendering the overplus, if any, to the owner on demand.

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