502 IMPERIAL ORDINANCE RELATING TO FOREIGN INSCE. COS. IN

dominions to any officer appointed or authorized by the local Govern behalf. It shall be lawful for such Consul or other officer to enter and ship, and in case the master shall obstruct or refuse to assist him in the such duty, or shall without reasonable cause fail to produce his emig as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars, and the detained by the British Consul, or if in Her Majesty's dominions, Government, until such fine shall have been paid and the emigration pap been given up.

16. In all ports and places where no Emigration Officer shall have be the British Consul shall, until such appointment, and at all times vacancy of such office, be deemed to be the Emigration Officer for the these Regulations.

Section 21 of Ordinance 1 of 1889 provides that the Governor in grant a special licence for any period not excceding twelve months, steamers, to carry a limited number of free Chinese passengers upon v more than thirty days' duration between ports to be specified in the subject to certain regulations which, as regards dietary, space, and ac are the same as those given above.

Vessels proceeding on voyages of more than thirty days' duration : rules made under the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.

IMPERIAL ORDINANCE RELATING TO FOF

INSURANCE COMPANIES IN JAPAN

1.-If a Foreign Company establishes an agency in Japan an insurance business, it must have a representative in Japan.

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The said Foreign Company must report to the Government { the residence of its representative.

3.-Articles 95 and 97 to 101 of the Commercial Code shall be Foreign Companies.

4.-If the Government recognizes that a Foreign Company has continuing in business (is insolvent?), or if the Company violates the in the Government, the Government may suspend the business or o representative be changed.

5.—When the Foreign Company makes up its balance-sheet, a w of the business, together with the balance-sheet showing profit and stat dividend. must be produced to the Government.

6.-A Foreign Company which has established a branch office Japan previous to the operation of the Commercial Code must obtain a the Government within six months from the date of the operation of the Code.

7.-Articles 1. 2. 4, and 5, and Articles 98 to 101 in the Commerci be applied to the Company which has established a branch office or age previous to the operation of the Commercial Code.

This Imperial Ordinance will take effect from the day of the the Commercial Code.

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