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permission, the master shall, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, forthwith report the same at the Consulate, and take efficient measures for the recovery of the absentee.
VI-All cases of death, occurring on board vessels in the anchorage or in the residence of British subjects on shore, must be immediately reported at the Consulate.
VII.-Stone ballast or cinders shall not be thrown overboard within the anchorage, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each offence.
VIII.-Any vessel laden with gunpowder, or any other explosive material, is prohibited from remaining within a distance of one mile from the anchorage.
IX. The discharge of guns or fire-arms from vessels within the anchorage is prohibited, under a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence.
X.-No seaman, or person belonging to a British ship, may be discharged or left behind at this port, without the express sanction of the Consul, nor until sufficient security shall have been given for his maintenance and good behaviour while re- maining on shore. If any British subject left at this port 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.
XI.-Any British subject who shall open a boarding-house or tavern at Kiukiang, or be concerned in the management thereof, without the previous sanction of the Consul, or who shall continue to keep open such boarding-house or tavern after the Consul's sanction has been withdrawn, shall be liable, for each offence, to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month. The keeper of every licensed boarding-house or tavern will be held account- able for the conduct of all inmates and frequenters of his house.
XII.--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 im- mediately reported at the Consulate. Any Chinese subject guilty of a misdemeanour, on shore or afloat, may be detained on detection, but information must in such case be lodged at the Consulate; and in no instance shall British subjects be permitted to use violence towards Chinese offenders, or to take the law into their own hands.
XIII.-Chinese offenders, known to be within the houses or premises of British subjects, shall be at once delivered up to the Consul, to be handed over, if necessary, to the Chinese authorities in accordance with Article XXI. of the treaty of Tientsin. Any British subject who shall fail to surrender such offender, after having been called upon to do so by the Consul, shall, in addition to such penalties as he may otherwise incur, be liable to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one month, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
XIV.-British subjects residing at Kiukiang, whose names have not been already enrolled in the Consular Register, shall apply to the Consul to be so enrolled, within ten days from the promulgation of these regulations. No British subject will be entitled to claim the protection of the authorities, who shall not have so enrolled himself, or who cannot allege valid reasons for his not having done so.
XV. The terin "Consul" in the foregoing Regulations shall be taken to mean the Consul, or Vice-Consul, or person duly authorised to act in either of these capacities for the time being.
XVI. 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 13th day of June, 1853, and all fees, penalties and forfeitures shall be appropriated and applied, as provided for in Article XXXVIII. of the same Order,
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P. J. HUGHES.
Her Majesty's Fice-Consul.
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