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request the local Chinese authorities to deal with the case and shall depute an officer of H. B. M. Consulate to act as an assessor at the trial of the accused.
XVIII.-No tavern, public-house, boarding-house, or house of entertaiment shall be opened within the limits of the settlement without a license from H. B. M. Consul, and without paying the annual licence fee in such behalf payable, and said licence shall be granted subject at any time to revocation, should it be proved that such house or tavern is conducted in an improper or disreputable manner, or that the inmates or frequenters thereof misconduct themselves or act in a disorderly manner. Persons convicted of a breach of this regulation shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $100, which fine shall be summarily recoverable by H. B. M. Consul from the proprietor of the house if he be a leaseholder or British subject, and if not, from the leaseholder upon whose land the said house is situated.
XIX.-No vessel laden with gunpowder or other dangerous combustible material shall be allowed to be moored to the mooring posts along the British Bund, nor shall any such aforesaid materials be stored in houses or godowns within the limits of the settlement, under a penalty not exceeding $200, for each breach of this regulation, which penalty shall be summarily recoverable from the hirer of said building, or the leaseholder of the lot upon which said building is situated, as the case may be, in the same way as the penalty attached to a breach of regulation No. 18 of these regulations.
XX. All vessels that moor along the British Bund must fasten their hawsers to the mooring posts set apart for their use, paying such mooring charges in that behalf as are payable, and the police of the settlement shall see that no hawsers or chain cables are made fast to trees, or fixed in such a way as to impede the public path.
XXI.-The committee of land renters, or their secretary, may recover sum- marily before H. B. M. Consul, or other Consul having competent jurisdiction, all penalties imposed by these regulations and by any bye-laws which may hereafter be framed under the said regulations and approved by H. M. Minister; and it shall be lawful for the said Consul to adjudge the offender to pay the penalty incurred, together with such costs attending the conviction as he, the said Consul, shall think fit. All penalties so recovered shall be carried to the credit of the said land renters' com- mittee, in diminution of the general expenditure authorized by the provisions of these local land regulations. Provided that in case any person liable to any penalty, or any defaulters, or owners, or shippers, or consignees of goods refusing to pay any rate, due, tax, or fine, have no Consular representative at the port of Tientsin, then the said Committee shall, with the consent of the local authorities, and under powers delegated to them to this end, be at liberty to detain and sell such portion of the goods, or use such other means as, with the consent of the local authorities, may be necessary to obtain payment of such rate, due, tax, or fine.
XXII. No matter or thing done, or contract entered into, by the committee, nor any matter or thing done by any member thereof, or by any person whomsoever acting under the direction of the committee, shall, if the matter or thing were done or the contract entered into bona fide for the purpose of executing these regulations, subject them, or any of them personally to any action, liability, claim, or demand whatsoever; and any expense properly and with due authority incurred by the Com- mittee, or by any member thereof, or by any person whomsoever acting under the direction of the Committee, shall be borne and repaid out of the fund collected under the authority of these regulations.
XXIII.-For the purpose of convicting any person committing an offence against any of these regulations, and for all other purposes, a printed copy of the regulation purporting to be certified under the hand and seal of Her Majesty's Minister in China, shall be conclusive evidence of the regulation, and no proof of the handwriting or seal purporting to certify the same shall be required.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
L.-The Consular Regulations for the port of Tientsin published by Acting Con- sul Gibson on the 27th October, 1863, are hereby repealed, such of their provisions as