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

with report the same at the Vice-Consulate, and take efficient measures for the recovery of the absentee.

IX. The discharge of guns and other firearms from vessels in harbour is strictly prohibited, under a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.

X.-Masters of vessels when reporting their arrival at the port shall notify in writing the names of all passengers and persons not forming part of the registered crew on board, and the due notice must likewise be given of the numbers and names of persons not forming part of the registered crew intending to leave the port on board of any vessel. Penalty for breach of this regulation fifty dollars.

XI. All cases of death occurring on board British vessels in harbour, or in the residence of British subjects on shore must be immediately reported to the Vice-Consul It is strictly prohibited to throw overboard the bodies of seamen or other persons dying on board a vessel in harbour.

XII. Stones, ballast, or cinders shall not be thrown overboard in the harbour of Chefoo, or discharged into boats from which it is afterwards thrown overboard, under a penalty of fifty dollars. The Custom House authorities will, on application through the Vice-Consul, point out the proper place where ballast may be thrown.

XIII.-All cases of loss of property by theft or fraud on board ship, as well as of assault or felony requiring redress or endangering the public peace, must be imme- diately reported to the Vice-Consul. Any Chinese guilty of a misdemeanor on shore or afloat may be detained on detection, but information in such a case must be given forthwith at the Vice-Consulate office, and in no instance shall British subjects be mitted to use violence towards Chinese offenders.

XIV. Any vessel laden with gunpowder or any combustible is prohibited from entering the anchorage, or remaining within a distance of one mile therefrom.

XV. No seaman or other person belonging to a British ship may be discharged or left behind at this port without the express sanction of the Vice-Consul. 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 sach British subject.

XVI.-When a vessel is ready to leave this port, the master shall give notice thereof to the Vice-Consul, and shall hoist a blue peter at least 24 hours before the time appointed for her departure.

XVII. No British subject may establish either a boarding or eating-house at this port without the sanction of the Vice-Consul. Every licensed boarding-house or eating-house keeper will be held accountable for the good conduct of all inmates and frequenters of his house.

XVIII.-Every British subject residing at this port who shall not have been already enrolled in the Consular Register, shall apply to the Vice-Consul to be enrolled within ten days after the promulgation of these regulations. No British subject will be entitled to claim protection of the authorities who shall not have so enrolled himself, or who cannot allege valid reasons for his not having done so.

XIX. A breach of any of the above regulations, to which no specific penalty is attached, shall entail on the offender liability to punishment by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

XX.-The term Vice-Consul shall be construed to include every officer of Her Majesty's service holding the Queen's commission as Consul or Vice-Consul, or acting as such.

XXL-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 the 13th June, 1853, and all penalties shall be appropriated and applied as provided for in Article XXXVIII. of the same order.

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