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PORT, CONSULAR; CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &o.

the Emperor of China, the vessel will be held responsible for the maintenance and remo- val of such British subject.

XIV.—Masters are required to conform to the Custom-house regulations published by Consul Mongan on the 20th of May, 1861.

XV.—When a vessel is ready to leave this port, the master shall give notice to the Consul or vice-Consul, and shall hoist a blue peter at least 24 hours before the time. appointed for her departure.

XVI.-No British subject may establish either a boarding or eating-house at this port without the sanction of the Consul or Vice-Consul. Every licensed boarding or eating. house keeper will be held accountable for the good conduct of all inmates and frequenters

of his house.

XVII.-Every British subject residing at this port, who shall not have been already enrolled in the Consular register, shall apply to the Consul or to the Vice-Consul to be enrolled within 10 days after the promulgation of these regulations. No British subject will be entitled to claim the protection of the authorities who shall not so have enrolled himself, and who cannot allege valid reasons for not having done so.

XVIII.-The term Consul or Vice-Consul shall be construed to include every officer of Her Majesty's Consular service, holding the Queen's commission as Consul or Vice- Consul, or acting as such.

XIX.-All fines and penalties imposed under the above regulations shall be levied and enforced in the manner specified in Article XXXVI. of the order of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 13th June, 1853, and all penalties shall be appropriated and applied as provided for in Article XXXVIII. of the same order.

CHEFOO.

NOTIFICATION.

The following regulations for the port of Chefoo (Yentai) having been sanctioned by Thomas Francis Wade, Esquire, Her Britannic Masjesty's Chargé d'Affairs at Peking, are Published for general information.

H. B. M. Consulate,

W. H. LAY,

H. B. M. Vice-Consul.

CHEFOO, 10th July, 1863.

CONSULAR REGULATIONS FOR THE PORT OF CHEFOO.

(YENTAI.)

I. The limits of the Port of Chefoo (Yentai) in the district of Tangchow-foo are within a line drawn from the eastern end of the peninsular called Che-foo-taow to the northern and eastern extremities of the Kungtung Islands and from thence due south to the mainland.

II.—Every master of a vessel shall deposit his ship's papers together with a manifest of her cargo at the Vice-Consulate within fourty-eight hours of arrival, unless a Sunday of holiday should intervene. Masters not conforming to this regulation will render themselves liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.

III.-Every British vessel must show her colors on entering the port, and keep them hoisted until she shall have been reported at the Vice-Consulate and her papers deposited there. Masters not conforming to this regulation will render themselves liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence.

IV. All British vessels must moor with 35 fathoms on each chain N.E. and S.W. within 48 hours of the time of their entering the harbour. Masters not conforming to this regulation will be subjected to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.

V.-Should' any vessel or boat the property of a British subject hoist any colors usually shewn or carried by Her Majesty's ships, or any pennant or any distinctive national colors except the British Ensign and the pilot flag (Union Jack with a white border

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