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LAWS CONCERNING SIAMESE AND FOREIGN VESSELS.

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XIII.-When a vessel under the British Flag is ready to leave the port of Bangkok, the master will give notice at the Consulate office, and hoist a blue peter twenty-four hours before her departure, which is to by until she breaks anchorage.

XIV. Should any vessel take in or discharge cargo subsequent to the issue of the Siamese port clearance, as directed by the fifth regulation, above quoted; the master as in a case of smuggling, subjects himself to a penalty of 800 Ticals (equal to £100), and the goods so taken or discharged will be liable to confiscation.

XV.-Every fine or penalty levied under these regulations, is, (if not paid in sterling money) at the rate of eight ticals Siamese currency for one pound.

R. H. SCHOMBURGK,

British Consulate, Bangkok,

November 6th 1860.

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H. M. Gonami.

LAWS CONCERNING VESSELS BELONGING TO SIAM, AND VESSELS FROM FOREIGN PORTS, LARGE VESSELS AND LIGHTERS, WHICH COME INTO THE CHOW PHYA RIVER, OR INTO ANY OF THE RIVERS OF THE PROVINCES BELONGING TO SIAM.

Art. I.-If a vessel come into the Chow Phya river, she shall cast anchor at the Guard station at Paknam. Her master shall then report his name, the name of his vessel, from whence she comes, how many men she has on board, and what merchandise she has, so that the officer at the station may first examine his vessel. If she have guns and ammunition on board, the master shall deliver these to the care of the officer in charge. If the vessel going out, be a merchant vessel belonging to a Foreign port, or a vessel belonging to Siam, having a European or American Captain, then she shall first be reported to Luang Wisuth Sakaratith, the Harbor Master, and then a pass be obtained for her at the Custom office. But vessels belonging to the country, under Chinese, or Mussulman flag, according to the custom of either, shall be reported to the officers of the port in the service of the Kromata of the right hand, or the Kromata of the left hand, (according to whose business it is,) and request a pass for the vessels according to the custom. When the vessel shall have dropped down to the Guard station at Paknam, the pass shall be presented to the officer of the station. And when the said officer discovers no cause why she should be detained, she may pass on.

In case a vessel that is coming in or going out, do not stop at the Guard station, and thus violate the treaties, she shall forfeit the sum of eight hundred ticals as the treaties have stipulated. And if a vessel shall go into any port of the provinces, or come out of any such port, she shall cast anchor at the Guard station [at the mouth of such river] and report herself to the officer of the station, and whatever he shall direct the masters to do in the premises, that must be done, which is according to the treaties.

Lights on vessels, and mooring ships.

Art. II.-When any ship or vessel shall have entered into any river, she shall keep a light burning three fathoms above her upper deck, from early twilight to clear morning light. And when she shall have arrived up the river, within the precincts of the town, her master shall first report himself to the Harbour Master, who will direct him to a berth for his vessel, which direction he must follow. She shall be moored by two anchors, one for the flood, and the other for the ebb tide, and rig her jib-boom in.

Masters of vessels are prohibited from quitting the place of anchorage which has been assigned to them, without having first obtained the sanction of the Harbour Master.

Every infraction will be punished by a fine.

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