JAPAN HARBOUR REGULATIONS
Art. I. The limits of the undermentioned Ports open to foreign corfromce ar defined as follows:-
At YOKOHAMA: the harbour limits are comprised within a line drawn mem the Juniten (Mandarin Bluff) to the light-ship, and thence due north, to a point on the coast east of the mouth of the Tsurumigawa.
At KOBE: the harbour limits are comprised within the area bounded by tw lines, one drawn from the former mouth of the Ikutagawa due south, and the othe running in a north-easterly direction from the point of Wada-no-misaki.
At NIIGATA: the harbour limits are comprised within the arc of a circle, that centre being the light-house, and the radius being two and a half nautical miles.
At EBISUMINATO: the harbour limits are comprised within a line drawn from Shiidomari-mura to Isori-mura on the outside, and a line drawn from Minotocho on ‹ the east shore of Lake Kamo to Kamomura on the north-west shore of the same laked
At OSAKA: the harbour limits are comprised within a line drawn from a poin (Tree Point) at the mouth of the Mukogawa south by west, and a line from th mouth of the Yamatogawa, the two lines cutting each other at a distance of si nautical miles from a point (Tree Point) and five nautical miles from the mouth o the Yamatogawa.
At NAGASAKI: the harbour limits are comprised within a line drawn from Kanzaki to Megami.
At HAKODATE: the harbour limits are comprised within a line drawn from point off the coast, balf a nautical mile south of Anoma Point, to a point on the east bank of the mouth of the Arikawa, Kamiiso-mura.
Art. II. Every vessel on entering a port shall hoist its ensign and its signatry letters. Regular Mail Packets may hoist the Company's flag in lieu of the signar
letters.
The ensign and signal letters or Company's flag must not be lowered until thi vessel's arrival shall have been duly reported to the Harbour Master.
Such report shall be made within 24 hours after arrival, Sundays and boliays excepted, and no Customs facilities shall be extended to any vessel until such repon shall have been made.
Art. III.-Every Master on arrival in port shall prevent all communicatio between his ship and other vessels or the shore until it shall have been admitted t! "free pratique.'
Art. IV. The Harbour Master's boat will be in attendance near the entranc of the harbour, and the Harbour Master will assign a berth to every ship on entent ing, which berth it must not leave without special permission, unless forced to da so. The Harbour Master may cause a vessel to cliange its berth, should he consider it necessary.
Art. V. The Harbour Master shall always wear a uniform when on duty am his boat shall carry a flag of the pattern prescribed.
The Harbour Master may at any time satisfy himself that his directions regards anchorage, the movements of ships and the proper condition of mooringi,« are carried out.
Art. VI.-No vessel shall anchor in the public fair-way or otherwise obstru free navigation. Vessels which have run out jib-booms shall rig them in at th request of the Harbour Master, if they obstruct free navigation.
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