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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c. land renter shall pay a sum exactly proportionate to his own quantity of ground, and it shall also be competent for the said renters, or majority of them as aforesaid, to impose other rates and taxes in the form of dues on all goods landed or shipped on or from the Bund within the limits of the said settlement, and in the form of mooring charges to be levied on such vessels as may make fast to the mooring posts set up for their accommodation within the said limits, provided the said rates or taxes levied in the form of dues shall in no case excced the amount of one-tenth of one per cent. on the value of the goods landed or shipped on or from the said Bund.
The scale of wharfage dues and mooring charges thus fixed at the annual meeting of land renters shall be communicated by H.B.M. Consul to the Consuls of other nations, and to the local Chinese authorities.
VIII.—It shall be competent to the land renters as aforesaid, in public meeting duly assembled, under and in accordance with the provisions of the above regulation No. 7, to appoint by ballot, or otherwise, as may be agreed upon at the aforesaid an- nual general meeting, an executive committee or council of not more than five or less than three land renters, for the purpose of levying the rates, dues, and taxes hereinafter mentioned, and applying the funds realized from the same for the pur- poses aforesaid, and for carrying out the regulations now made. Be it further ordered. that the said committee when appointed shall have power and authority to levy and apply the said rates, dues, and taxes for the purposes aforesaid, and also that the said committee or their secretary have full power and authority to sue for all arrears of such rates, dues, and taxes, and recover the same from all defaulters in H.B.M. Consular Court, if the said defaulters or any of them be British subjects, and in the Consular Courts under whose jurisdiction such defaulters may be, if the said defaulters on any of them be not British subjects.
IX. The committee shall hold office for one year from the date of their election, and shall have power of themselves to fill up any vacancies that may occur during
They shall elect their own chairman, and may from time to time appoint, pay out of the municipal funds, and remove such officers and servants as they think t
Three members of the committee shall form a quorum, and on all questions upon which the members are equally divided the chairman shall have a casting vote.
X. The committee shall administer the municipal funds at their discretion, for the purposes specified in regulation No. 7 of these regulations, and in as far as such expenditure shall have been sanctioned at the annual general meeting of land ren- ters, or at any special general meeting called to vote expenses, provided they do t
exceed the sum voted at such meetings.
seven days before the annual general meeting of land renters to audit the accounts Be it further ordered, that the said committee shall appoint an auditor at least keep by them during their year of office, and that they shall also draw up a state- Iment of receipts and disbursements for the same period, and that the said statement and said accounts duly audited be left in the court room of H.B.M. Consulate for at least 24 hours before the assembling of the said annual general meeting, to be for the inspection of the land renters generally, and that the said accounts be
finally, if correct, at the said meeting.
open
passed
XI.-The committee shall have power and authority from time to time to make bye laws, for the purpose of better enabling them to carry out the objects of these regulations, and such bye laws if adopted by a special general meeting of the d renters, and approved by H.B.M. minister, shall be of the same force and effect as
these regulations.
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H.B.M. Consular Court at Tientsin, by any person who may deem himself injured XII The committee shall be liable to be sued, through their secretary, in
in any such suit, said damages and the costs of such suit shall be summarily recover- able by HB M. Consul, and paid out of the funds levied under the authority of
these local regulations.
XIII. In addition to the annual general meeting of land renters, II.B.M.
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