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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c.
steamer bound for Tientsin remain for more than three hours at Taku, unless she can show reasonable cause for so doing, she shall report and lodge her papers at Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-consulate there.
The master of any vessel in the inner Taku anchorage shall be allowed 48 hours, and in the outer 72 hours, to deposit the ship's papers at the Vice-cousulate at that port.
During the winter months, while the port of Tientsin is closed by ice, the hours, during which the consular office is required to be open are from A.M. to
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 " 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 he 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 II. B. M. Consulate at Tientsin; and be it further ordered that the following General Regulations shall in like manner be binding upon 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.
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Given under may hand and seal of Office, at Peking, China, this 26th day of
November, 1866.
RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,
H. M's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of Trads in China.
LOCAL LAND REGULATIONS,
I.—The Land to which these Regulations apply is bounded on the East by the Peibo 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
II.-The Local Regulations
published by Acting-Consul Gibson on the 27th October, 1863, and the Supplementary Regulations published by Acting Vice-Consul intended to be abrogated being embodied in the present Local Land Regulations. Dennys on the 1st June, 1864, are hereby repealed, such of their provisions as are not
of the settlement.
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
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