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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c.
the master shall forthwith report the same at the Consulate office, and take efficient measures for the recovery of the absentee
VII.-The discharge of guns or other fire-arms from vessels in harbour is strictly prohibited under a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
VIII.-Masters of vessels, when reporting their arrival at a port or anchorage, shall notify in writing the names of all passengers and persons not forming part of the registered crew on board; and due notice must likewise be given of the number and names of persons not forming part of the registered crew, intending to leave the port on board of any vessels.
IX.-All cases of death occurring on board of vessels in harbour, or in the re- sidences of British subjects on shore, must be immediately reported at the Consulate office, and in the event of sudden or accidental death the best information obtainable will likewise be required. It is strictly prohibited to throw overboard the bodies of seamen or other persons dying on board of a vessel in harbour.
X.-Stone or ballast shall not be thrown overboard in harbour.
XI.-All cases of loss of property by theft or fraud on board of ship, as well as of assault or felony, requiring redress, or involving the public peace, must be immediately reported at the Consulate office. Any Chinese subject guilty of a misdemeanor on shore or afloat may be detained on detection; but information must in such case be forthwith lodged at the Consulate office, and in no instance shall British subjects be permitted to use violence towards Chinese offenders, or take the law into their own hands.
XII.-Any vessel laden with gunpowder or any other combustible is prohibited from entering an anchorage or remaining within a distance from it of one mile.
XIII.- No seaman or other person belonging to a British ship may be discharged or leit behind at any port or anchorage without the express sanction of the Consul, nor until sufficient security shall have been given for his maintenance and good behaviour while remaining on shore. If any British subject left at a port or anchorage by a British vessel, be found requiring public relief prior to the departure of such vessel from the dominions of the Emperor of China, the vessel will be held responsible for the maintenance and removal of such British subject.
XIV.—When a vessel is ready to leave a port or anchorage, the master or con- signees shall apply at the Chinese Custom-house for a Chinese port-clearance (grand- chop,) and on his presenting this document, together with a copy of the manifest of his export cargo, at the Consulate office, his ship's papers will be restored, and he will be furnished with a Consular port-clearance, on receiving which the vessel will be at liberty to leave the port. Should any vessel take in or discharge cargo subsequent to the issue of the grand-chop, the master will be subject to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, and the goods so taken in or discharged will be liable to con- fiscation under the terms of general regulations of trade with reference to breaking bulk without due permission.
XV. When a vessel is ready to leave a port or anchorage the master shall give notice thereof to the Consul, and shall hoist a blue peter at least 24 hours before the time appointed for her departure. The Consul may dispense with the observance of this regulation on security being given that claims presented within 24 hours will be paid.
XVI.—No British subject may establish either a boarding or eating house at a port or anchorage without the sanction of the Consul, or without giving proper security that be will not harbour any seaman, who is a runaway, or who cannot produce his discharge, accompanied by a written sanction from the Consul to reside on shore. 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 within the dominions of the Emperor of China, who shall not have been already enrolled in the Consular Register, shall apply to the Consul to be enrolled within ten days of the promulgation of these Regulations at the port in which he resides. And every British subject who may arrive in the said do- minions, save and except any British subject who may be borne on the muster-roll of a British vessel, shall apply within ten days of his arrival to the Consul of the district
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