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REGULATIONS FOR TRADE WITH JAPAN,

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Done at Yedo, this twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, corresponding to the Japanese date the eighteenth day of the seventh month of the firth year of Ausei Tsusinon yemma.

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ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

MIDZUO TSIKFOGONO KAMI· NAGAI GEMBANO KAMI, INOUWYE SINANO KAMI. HORI ORIBENO KAMI. IWASE HIGONO KAMI,

ISUDA HAUZABRO.

REGULATIONS UNDER WHICH BRITISH TRADE IS TO BE CON-

DUCTED IN JAPAN.

Regulation I.-Within forty-eight hours (Sundays excepted) after the arrival of a British ship in a Japanese port, the captain or commander shall exhibit to the Japa- nese Custom-house authorities the receipt of the British Consul, showing that he has deposited all the ship's papers, the ship's bills of lading, &c., at the British Consulate, and he shall then make an entry of his ship, by giving a written paper, stating the name of the ship, and the name of the port from which she comes, her tonnage, the names of her passengers (if any), and the number of her crew, which paper shall be certified by the captain or commander to be a true statement, and shall be signed by him; he shall, at the same time, deposit a written manifest of his cargo, setting forth the marks and number of the packages and their contents, as they are described in his bills of lading, with the naines of the person or persons to whom they are consign- ed. A list of the stores of the ship shall be added to the manifest.

The captain or commander shall certify the manifest to be a true account of all the cargo and stores on board the ship, and shall sign his name to the same.

If any error is discovered in the manifest, it may be corrected within twenty. four hours (Sunday excepted) without the payment of any fees, but for any alteration or post entry to the manifest made after that time, a fee of fifteen dollars shall be paid.

All goods not entered on the manifest shall pay double duties on being landed. Any captain or commander that shall neglect to enter his vessel at the Japanese Custom-house within the time prescribed by this regulation, shall pay a penalty of sixty dollars for each day that he shall so neglect to enter his ship.

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Regulation II.-The Japanese Government shall have the right to place Cus- tom-house officers on board of any ship in their ports (men-of-war excepted.) Custom-house officers shall be treated with civility, and such reasonable accommoda- tion shall be allotted to them as the ship affords.

No goods shall be unladen from any ship between the hours of sunset and sunrise, except by special permission of the Custom-house authorities, and the hatches, and all other places of entrance into that part of the ship where the cargo is stowed, may be secured by Japanese officers between the hours of sunset and sunrise, by fixing seals, locks, or other fastenings; and if any person shall, without due permission open any entrance that has been so secured or shall break or remove any seal, lock, or other fas- tening that has been affixed by the Japanese Custom-house officers, every person so offending shall pay a fine of sixty dollars for each offence.

Any goods that shall be discharged, from any ship, without having been duly en- tered at the Japanese Custom-house as hereinafter provided, shall be liable to seizure and confiscation.