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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &o.
TIENTSIN.
LOCAL LAND REGULATIONS.
PREAMBLE.
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Whereas by Section 85 of the "China and Japan Order in Council, 1865,” it is provided amongst other things that "Her Majesty's Minister in China may from time to time make such Regulations as seem fit for the peace, order, and good govern- ment of British subjects resident in or resorting to China," and also that he "may make any such regulations apply either throughout China, or to some one or more of the Consular Districts in China, and may by any such Regulations repeal or alter any regulations made for any such purpose as aforesaid, before the commencement of this order;" and whereas, in the Consular District of Tientsin, a certain quantity of land commonly known and described as the British settlement, has been rented in per- petuity from the Government of China by the Crown of Great Britain, and sublet by Her Majesty through her Consul to various Lessees; and whereas it is expedient that Regulations should be made for the peace, order, and good government of the said Lessees of the British Crown, and of all persons within the limits of the said settle- ment, and also for the peace, order, and good government of all British subjects within the said Consular District of Tientsin; and whereas it seems further to be urgently required that such Regulations should have effect unless and until they are disapproved by Her Majesty; be it therefore ordered that the following Local Land Regulations shall have effect and be binding upon all persons residing or being within the limits of the said settlement, as to all matters and things comprised therein, from and after the expiration of One Calender Month after the same shall have been affixed and kept exhibited at the office of H. B. M. Consulate at Tientsin; and be it further ordered that the following General Regulations shall in like manner be binding upon all British subjects residing or being within the said Consular District of Tientsin, it being understood that the obligation of Foreigners to conform to and obey the said regula- tions is derived from their individual consent, and from being Lessees of Land under the British Crown with the sanction and consent of their National Authorities.
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Peking, China, this 26th day of No- vember, 1866.
RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,
H. M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China.
LOCAL LAND REGULATIONS.
L-The Land to which these Regulations apply is bounded on the East by the Peiho River, on the West by the high road between Tientsin and Taku, on the North by the French settlement, and on the South by the American Lots. Its limits are defined also by four boundary stones set up on the N.E., N.W., S.E. and S.W. angles of the settlement.
II.-The Local Regulations published by Acting-Consul Gibson on the 27th October, 1863, and the Supplementary Regulations published by Acting Vice-Consul Dennys on the 1st June, 1864, are hereby repealed, such of their provisions as are not intended to be abrogated being embodied in the present Local Land Regulations.
III.-The leases of all lots in the settlement shall be deposited in H. B. M. Consulate in original, and all transfers of lots or portions of lots under the said Leases shall be made by the parties to the transfer or their duly authorized represen- tatives in the presence of an officer of H. B. M. Consulate, and shall be registered at the said Consulate within one month of such transfer, under a penalty not exceeding $100.
All charges by way of mortgage whether of a legal or equitable character, made in the Consular District of Tientsin, shall be registered in conformity with the Regula
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