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that all fishing vessels should be totally disarmed; a Proclamation

hereupon issued and all the Civil and Military Authorities having jurisdiction along the Coust

were ordered to enforce the prohibition on and after the 19th day of July

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" of the 5th month), it being laid down that

- any infringement of the prohibition after the specifient date should entail the confiscation of the vessel so offending and the arrest and punishment of her- Master. Nearly two months

elapsed since the period

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thus assigned came to an end, but it is ascertained that the trading

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and fishing vessels along the Coast

have not uniformly obeyed the rule laid down. Furthermore, Memorials

have

repeated

vecasions been.

presented to the Viceroy by Chen - Chih-kay and others, Managers of the Shipping Association of the Hiang Shan and other Districts, in which it is stated that fishing junks of various elagues in the various maritime sections of the Province, differing in nomenclature, size, and build, although at times -employed in the fishery at sea, are

also

time

from trading voyages and sometimes

to time sent on.

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chartered by Government for emising

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