CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9] — Page 75

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forbidding trading repils proceeding

to sea from carrying my

armament than

guns

other

and muskets,

the use of Stink pols being interdicted,

and to fishing junks it was

t

earry

either an

Forbidden

an armament or Stink.

poto. Subsequently to this, fetitions were

on repeated occasions presented by Chin Chi-Kai and others representing the shipping interate of Diangshan and the neighbouring districts, setting forth that in the various

maritime divisions of the Province

Juuks

are used, inchserminately for trading or fishing purposes, and that

A sw

ewaeping frohibition against Carrying an armament would be

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frejudicise to life and

and property._ the Tharoy hereupon drew up a Set of Rules, and there were communicated

to all officials exercising juridiction along the Coast with orders for the issue by them of a Notification to the masters

of all trading and fishing junks that the provisions of the Ordinances must be fulfilled in respect to the establishmec of Agao. Chang (Superintendent of shipping) and Kiachang (ty thing Chiefs), and the taking of books and the ipuing of Registers with a view to proper supervision. Any ressel which on being boarded was found to be without an official Register

was to be detained by the

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