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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c.

ΑΜΟΥ.

PROVISIONAL RULES FOR STEAMERS TRADING REGULARLY AT AMOY.

I.-Coasting Steamers regularly trading at Amoy, will not be required by the Customs to be reported through the Consul, except when payment of tonnage dues is due.

II.-A general guarantee signed before his Consul by the agent of the steamers for the payment of Import and Export duties will be accepted. The duties covered by this guarantee must be paid within forty-eight hours after the departure of the vessel concerned, when her accounts will be closed, and her Grand chops issued to her agents.

III.-Tidewaiters will be placed on board steamers to superintend the discharge and shipment of cargo.

IV. On the arrival of a regular coasting steamer after sunrise and before dark the tidesurveyor will go on board and receive her Import manifest, giving in return a general permit to land the cargo manifested. It will be at the option of the agent of the steamer to take goods discharged after sunrise or before dark, accompanied by the usual application to the Customs' Jetties, for examination and immediate delivery, as heretofore, or so place them in one of his godowns approved by the Customs as fit and secure and under their and his joint locks, clearing them by payment of duties within (48) forty-eight hours after the vessel's departure. Cargo may be discharged into an approved godown until 10 o'clock at night, or in exceptional cases, until mid- night, provided the cargo to be discharged can be got out by that time.

V-An approved godown under the joint locks of the Customs and agent having been provided, cargo for an expected steamer may be examined and lodged therein, the duties collected, cargo certificates issued, and shipping permits granted, in order to the immediate shipment of the goods on the vessel's arrival. Cargo which has been ex- amined by the Customs, and on which duty has been paid or the agent's guarantee given, may be shipped until (10) ten o'clock at night, or as in rule 4, until midnight. The cargo certificates will be forwarded by next steamer,

VI. On the completion, before or after office hours, of the shipment of cargo, the export manifest, with the hour noted thereon, must be handed to the tidewaiter, who will then give a clearance note to the master of the steamer, when so far as the Customs are concerned the vessel will be at liberty to depart.

For steamers working after sunset a fee of ten dollars (10) will be charged, for working after ten o'clock an additional fee of ten dollars (10) will be charged.

Any irregularity will lead to the withdrawal from the vessel concerned of the previleges herein conceded.

May 9th, 1864.

GIORGE HUGHES,

Commissioner of Customs.

FOOCHOW-FOO.

CONSULAR NOTIFICATION.

Masters of British vessels are hereby called upon to take notice, that until further orders, they will be required both on entering and clearing out of port, to hand into the British Consulate a return of the passengers on board or about to be shipped on board their vessels, and they are further warned that the penalty of omitting to hand in such a report, or of handing in a false report, has been declared by Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade for the time being, in virtue of the powers in him vested, to be a fiue not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars for each separate offence.

Vessels anchoring at Pagoda Anchorage must hand in their inward passenger return within 24 hours after arrival, and their outward passenger return not later than 12 hours before departure.