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

FOOCHOW.

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The limits of the port of Foochow extend from the Wantae or City Bridge to the Kinpae Pass.

Any appeal from the decision of the Vice-consul at Pagoda Island is required to be forwarded under flying seal, through the Vice-consul, or to the Consul at Foochow.

TAIWAN.

Masters of vessels frequenting this port shall be required to send in every day to the Consul a list of the names of the men to whom they give permission to go on shore, and shall allow none to go on shore except those included in the list. It shall be competent to the Consul to prohibit leave being given to the men of any vessel to come ashore if he shall think fit so to do.

TAMSUY AND KELUNG.

The limits of the port of Tamsuy are defined to be from Sand Point in a straight line bearing N.N.E. to the Red Fort.

The limits of the port of Kelung are defined to be within a straight line drawn from Image Point to Bush Island.

SHANGHAI.

1. The port is limited seawards by a line drawn from Pae-shan Point to battery on the right bank of the river below Woosung.

II.---The anchorage is limited by a line running East and West from Mr. Cul- bertson's house under the City Wall, and North by the Harbour Master's Hulk "Nga- pu-hi."

NINGPO.

The port of Ningpo is construed to include any portion of the Yang or Ningro river contained within a line from the northern extremity of the Chinhai promontory, called by the Chinese Chaou-paou-shan, to the islet known variously as the inner triangle, the Pasyen island, and the Hoo-tsun-shan. And a second line running from the said islet to the northern base of the hill on the eastern side of the mouth of the Yang river, known as Look-out Hill.

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CUSTOM-HOUSE REGULATIONS.

I. The port shall be considered to have been entered by any vessel that has crossed the line supposed to be drawn from the Chaou-pau-shan to the Kin-shan at Chinhae.

II. On entering the port tide-waiters will be placed on board.

III. The limits within which the shipment and discharge of cargo can take place, are the British cemetery, the bridge of boats, and the salt gate ferry. A vessel having once anchored within these limits must not change her position before obtain- ing permission to do so from the Customs.

IV.-Vessels must, within forty-eight hours after entering the port, deposit with the Consul their papers and manifest. If there be no Consul, they must be deposited with the Customs,

V. Manifests must be signed by the masters of vessels, and must contain ali particulars, quantity, marks and numbers, &c., &c., and any changes must be made within twenty-four hours.

VI.-Landing and discharging of cargo or ballast can only take place between sun- rise and sunset, and cannot go on without special permission on Sundays and holidays. VII.-When ready to discharge cargo, the consignee must send to the customs an application in Chinese (and English) giving full particulars of the goods to be discharged, on which he will be furnished with a permit to remove his consignment from the ship

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