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

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III.-When a vessel is ready to leave the port, the master will obtain a port clearance from the Custom-house, which document, together with the manifest of his export cargo, and a list of persons not forming part of the crew intending to leave the port in his vessel, must be delivered at the Consulate-office before the ship's papers can be returned to him. Masters of British vessels must always give twenty- four-hours' notice before they can clear at the Consulate.

IV.-Stones, ballast, cinders, or any other substance tending to lessen the depth of the anchorage, shall not be thrown overboard within the limits of the har- bour; but must be discharged at such place or places as shall be indicated by the Consul.

V. Any vessel having on board gunpowder, or any other explosive substance, in any quantity over and above that which is required for the use of the ship, must report the same at the Consulate-office, and until it is discharged, must anchor only in such berth as shall be assigned to her.

VI.-Cannon or fire-arms may not be fired from British merchant vessels în the

harbour.

VII -The time within which seamen are allowed to be on shore is limited to the hours between sunrise and sunset.

VIII. No boat or vessel (other than a duly registered British ship) shall hoist the British Ensign within the limits of the Consular district, unless authorized by the Consul to do so; nor shall she exhibit within such limits any flag so similar to the British Eusigu as not to be distinguishable from it. Neither shall any British subject hoist the British Ensign or any other flag not distinguishable from it over any place or residence on shore, without special authority from the Consul.

IX.-All cases of death, occurring either afloat or on shore, must be immediately reported at the Consulate-office.

X.--No British subject may establish a boarding-house, eating-house, or other place of entertainment, or a butcher's,shop, or may keep or slaughter pigs, sheep, or cattle without the sanction of the Consul, and under such conditions as he may require.

XI.-Gunpowder or other explosive substances can only be stored, on shore or afloat, at such place or places as may be indicated by the Consul.

XII.-No British subject may ride or drive in any street, road, or public thoroughfare in a furious or careless manner.

XIII.-No dog belonging to a British subject shall be allowed to go about the streets or public thoroughfares unmuzzled between the 15th of June and the 15th of Novenber of each year.

XIV.—At Hiogo British subjects may not go beyond the limits laid down in the Treaty of Yedo, namely, "ten ri in any direction, that of Kioto excepted, which city shall not be approached nearer than ten ri," and at Osaka, they may not go beyoud the limits laid down in the regulations on the subject which is published in a notifica tion by Her Majesty's Miuister of the date.