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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c.
GENERAL REGULATIONS,
Port Regulations to secure the observance of Treaties and the maintainance of friendly relations between British Subjects and Chinese Subjects and Authorities, made in pursuance of Section 85 of the China and Japan Order in Council 1865.
I. All port rules and regulations heretofore in force to secure the observance of Treaties and the maintenance of friendly relations between British subjects and Chinese subjects and authorities, having reference to any of the 13 ports open for trade in China, are repealed from and after the from which day the following regulations shall take effect and be observed.
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II.-The British Consulate offices at the several open ports shall be opened for public business from 10 o'clock A.M. to 4 o'clock P.M. daily, excepting Sundays, Christ- mas day, Good Friday, Queen's birth day, Easter Monday, and those holidays upon which public offices in England are closed, Chinese New Year's day and such Chinese holidays as the Chinese Customs authorities may observe.
TIL--On the arrival of any British vessel at the anchorage of any of the open ports, the master shall, within 24 hours, deposit his ship's papers together with a sum- mary of the manifest of her cargo at the Consulate office, unless a Sunday or holiday
should intervene.
IV.-Every British vessel must show her national colours on entering the port or anchorage, and keep them hoisted until she shall have been reported at the Consulate and her papers deposited there.
V.-No British vessel or any vessel the property of a British subject, unless pro- vided with a certificate of registry, or provisional or other pass from the Superinten- dent of Trade at Peking or from the Colonial Government at Hongkong, shall hoist the British ensign within any port or anchorage, or any flag similar to the British en- sign, or of a character not to be easily distinguishablo from it. Nor shall any regis tered British vessel flying the Red ensign hoist any other ensign or flag (except she be entitled to fly the Blue ensign) in use by Her Majesty's vessels of war, or the na- tional ensign of any foreign States or any ensign or flag not plainly distinguishable from the ensigns used by Her Majesty's ships of war or from those flown by ships of foreign States.
VI. Should any seaman absent himself without permission, the master shall forthwith report the same at the Consulate office, and take the necessary measures for the recovery of the absentee, and it shall be lawful for the Consul, if circumstances shall require it, in his discretion to prohibit leave being given to seamen to come ashore, and any master who shall violate such prohibition shall incur the penalties bereinafter declared.
VII. The discharge of guns or other firearms from vessels in harbour is strictly prohibited, unless premission shall have been granted by the Consul.
VIII.-Masters of vessels when reporting their arrival at a Port shall notify in writing the names of all passengers and persons not forming part of the articled
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