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No. 89.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH MAY, 1876.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following copy of an Extract from the General Regulation of Custom Houses concerning Merchant Ships and Steamers, in reference to the Port of Hai-phong, is published for general informa- tion.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd May, 1876.
PORT OF HAI-PHONG.
EXTRACT
FROM
THE GENERAL REGULATION OF CUSTOM HOUSES
Concerning Merchant Ships and Steamers.
ARTICLE 1.
The port of Hai-phong is limited between the fort situated on the right bank of the Cua-cam, opposite the arroyo of Vang-chau, and the fort up the river of the arroyo of Hai-phong, on the left bank of the Cua-cam.
ART. 2.
The anchorage place for stranger ships, extends itself in the Cua-cam between the two forts aforesaid named; the annamite and chinese junks and barks shall anchor or moor in the arroyo of Hai-phong.
ART. 3.
At the arrival of every ship in the port, a custom house agent shall be put on board, to survey the operations of loading and landing, and in order to prevent all sort of smuggling.
Captains of ships are bound to observe the regulation concerning the police and security of the port, so as the police regulations concerning their crews when they are on shore, and of which regu- lations, connexion shall be given to them by the harbour master.
ART. 4.
It is absolutely forbidden to import into Tonkin, fire arms and war ammunitions.
Are considered as prohibited goods:
Canons and all artillery arms, their carriages, tools and additionnals, bullets, bombs, small bombs, and others.
Gunpowder.
Fire arms, guns, revolvers and others.
Swords, halberds, bayonets, pikes and others.
Saltpetre.
Military pieces of furniture for encampment, and tools manufactured for war purpose.
All infringement to the present article entice to a fine varying from fifty to five hundred dollars.
ART. 5.
Every ship shall receive at Hai-phong, at due time, an order specifying the number of fire arms and war ainmunitions being on board. This quantity and number shall have to be produced again at her departure, and must agree with the order, except when the uses made of them, has been legally justified, under a penalty of a fine of one hundred dollars for the infraction, and legal proceedings in the case foreseen for the sales of gunpowder and war ammunitions.
The ship being in infringement to this regulation shall be detained till the fine is paid, and that the charge has been cleared.
ART. 6.
Twenty four hours from the arrival of a stranger ship in the port, the captain is bound to deposit the ship's papers and the manifest at the French consulate.
If in the forty eight hours from the arrival, the above said paragraph has not been observed, the captain shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars per day of delay, to the profit of the customs. The said fine shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars.
ART. 7.
The captain is answerable for the regularity of the manifest, which must reproduce the marks, numbers, contents and value of each colis. The captain shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars if he offers a false manifest, but he shall be allowed to rectify the mistakes in the twenty four hours that shall follow the remittance of the said manifest in the hands of the French Consul, without being