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If any vessel shall discharge any goods or substance in such a rotten, putrid, damaged or other conditions as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health in the opinion of Health Officer of the Port or if any goods or substance discharge from any vessel become rotten, putrid or otherwise as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health in the opinion of the Health Officer of the Port, the Traffic Manager may require the owner thereof or, if the owner should disclaim, deny or dispute the consignment or decline all responsibility or if there no owner, the master, owner or agent of the vessel from which the goods or substance, had been discharged, forthwith to cause the said goods or substance, to be removed, and if such owner of the consignment or such master, owner or agent of the vessel as the case may be, shall, on being so required, refused or neglect, for the space of eighteen hours after notice, to remove such goods or substance, then such removal may be effected in such manner as the Traffic Manager may think fit and he may, if he thinks it necessary cause the said goods or substance to be destroyed, and the said owner of the consignment or the said master, owner, or agent of the vessel, as the case may be, shall within forty-eight hours after demand in writing pay to the Board all the costs of expenses attending or occasioned by such removal and destruction and of such cleaning, purifying or disinfecting the place of discharge or storage as may be considered desirable, and shall be further liable to the prescribed penalty.