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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH JULY, 1894.
And whereas the undersigned has received an intimation from the Imperial Japanese Government that owing to the violent character of the infection of the Pest and the long period of its incubation, it is deemed necessary to extend the period named in the said Regulations as amended by the said additional clause for the detention of vessels for medical inspection and disinfection and that an Imperial Decree has been issued extending such period accordingly;
The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Japan, under and by virtue of the powers vested in him by the China and Japan Order in Council, 1881, hereby makes the following Regulation :-
1. The Regulations issued by the Imperial Japanese Government on the twenty-third day of June, 1882, of which a copy is annexed to the Regulation made by Her Britannic Majesty's Minister on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1882, together with the additional article thereto of which a copy is annexed to the Regulation made by Her Britannic Majesty's Minister on the fifth day of September, 1885, and the Regulation issued by the Imperial Japanese Government on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1894, of which a copy is annexed to the Regulation made by Her Britannic Majesty's Minister on the second day of June, 1894, shall, as amended by the Imperial Decree, of which a copy is hereunto annexed, be binding on British subjects, and shall as so amended be applicable to British vessels, and any British subject who shall wrongfully and wilfully contravene or infringe or interfere with the execution of the provisions of the said Regulations as so amended, so long as and wherever such Regulations as so amended shall from time to time be in force and form a part of the municipal law of Japan, shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Regulation, and shall be liable to the same penalties as if he had committed an offence against the said Regulation made by Her Britannic Majesty's Minister on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1882.
2. This Regulation shall extend to all the Consular Districts in Japan.
3. This Regulation is hereby declared urgent, and shall take effect, and shall continue to have effect unless and until it is disapproved by Her Majesty the Queen, and until notification of that disapproval has been received and published in the manner provided by the said Order in Council.
Given under my hand at Her Britannic Majesty's Legation this twentieth day of June, 1894.
R. S. PAGET.
Copy of the Imperial Decree referred to in the foregoing Regulation.
IMPERIAL DECREE No. 70.
The following alterations have been made in the Medical Inspection Regulations for vessels arriving from Cholera infected localities, promulgated by Notification No. 31 of 1882.
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Article 2.--In the Additional Clause added to this Article "48 hours is changed into "nine days"; and beneath "require to remain at anchor' the words "vessels, passengers, crew and cargo'
are added.
Article 3.-The following clause is added to the first paragraph of Article 3.
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"The Quarantine officers may, whenever they deem it necessary, detain such vessels, their pass- engers and cargo for a period not exceeding nine days at the anchorage designated by them.
NOTIFICATION.
The Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Japan, hereby makes known for the information of British Subjects resident in, or resorting to, Japan, that he has received a Note from His Excellency the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs stating that the Regulations for the Inspection of Vessels, issued by the Imperial Japanese Government on the 23rd June, 1882, and the 25th May, 1894, have been put in force at the Port of Hakodate, in the case of all vessels arriving either directly or otherwise from Hongkong and Ports in China, places infected with the Pest.
R. S. PAGET.
H.B.M. LEGATION, Tokio, June 19th, 1894.