PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, SAILING, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c. 345
crew on board, and previous to leaving, notice must be given of the number and names of all persons, not forming part of the articled crew, intending to leave the port on board any vessel.
IX.-All cases of death occurring at sea must be reported to the Consul within 24 hours of the vessel's arriving in port or harbour, and all cases of death, on board vessels in harbour, or in the residences of British subjects on shore, must be immediately reported at the Consulate office, and in the event of sudden or accidental death the fullest information obtainable shall be given. It is strictly prohibited to throw overboard the bodies of seamen or other persons dying on board of a vessel in harbour. Except in cases of urgent necessity, no burial should take place on shore or from any ship in harbour without the licence of the Consul first being obtained.
X.-Stone or ballast shall not be thrown overboard in any port or harbour unless permission s'all have been first obtained from the local authorities through the intervention of Her Majesty's Consular officer.
XI.—All cases of loss of property by theft or fraud on board ships, as well as of assault or felony requiring redress or involving the public peace, must be immediately reported at the Consulate office
Any Chinese subject guilty of a misdemeanour on shore or afloat may be detained on detection, but information must in such cases be forthwith lodged at the Consulate office, and in no instance shall British subjects be permitted to use violence towards Chinese offenders or take the law into their own hands.
XII.-Any vessel laden with gunpowder or other explosive material, or having in the whole above 200lbs. of such material on board, shall not approach nearer than a distance of one mile from the limits of the anchorage. On arriving at that distance she must be forthwith reported to the Consular Authorities.
Special anchorages or stations will be assigned for such ships in the neighbourhood of the ports.
XIII. No seaman or other person belonging to a British ship may be discharged or left behind at any port or anchorage without the express sanction of the Consul, and not then until sufficient security shall have been given for his maintenance and good behaviour while remaining on shore, and if required, for the expenses incident to his shipment to a Port in the United Kingdom or to a Colonial Port, according as the seaman or other person may be a native of Great Britain or of any British Colony.
If any British subject left at a port or anchorage by a British vessel be found requiring public relief prior to the departure of such vessel from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, the vessel will be held responsible for the maintenance and removal of such British subject.
XIV. When a vessel is ready to leave a port or anchorage, the master or con- signee shall apply at the Chinese Custom-house for a Chinese port clearance, and on his presenting this document, together with a copy of the manifest of his export cargo, at the Consulate office, his ship's papers will be restored, and he will be furnished with a Consular port clearance, on receiving which the vessel will be at liberty to leave the port. Should any vessel take in or discharge cargo subs quent to the issue of the Customs clearance, the master will be subject to a penalty, and the ship to such detention as may be necessary to the ends of justice.
XV.-When a vessel is ready to leave a port or anchora e, the master shall give notice thereof to the Consul, and shall hoist a Blue Peter at least 24 hours before the time appointed for ber departure. The Consul may dispense with the observance of this regulation on security being given that claims presented within 24 hours will be paid.
XVI.-No British subject may establisa or carry on a hotel, boarding or eating. house, house of establishment, or chop for the sale of liquors within the Consular district without the sanction and licence of the Consul, and payment of such fees in respect of such licence yearly or otherwise as may be duly authorised. Consul shall require every person so licensed to give security for the good conduct of all inmates and frequenters of his house, and also that he will not harbouz
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