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

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leases shall be made by the parties to the transfer or their duly authorized represen- tatives in the presence of an officer of II.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- tions in force concerning the registration of charges by way of mortgage on land in China, otherwise such mortgage deed will not be allowed precedence over judgment or simple contract debts contracted before the execution of said deed.

IV.—All British subjects and all naturalized British subjects may rent land in the British settlement, but in no case shall a Chinese subject be permitted to do so, nor shall the subject of any other Foreign State be allowed to rent land in the said settlement unless he shall undertake in writing, in his own name, and with the offi cially certified consent of his National Authority, to obey all such regulations and bye laws as may have been already made or sanctioned, or as may hereafter from time to time be made or sanctioned by II. B. M. Minister, for the peace, order, and good govern- ment of the said settlement and all persons resident therein, it being also distinctly stipulated and expressly provided in the said agreement that, in case of the breach or non-performance by the said foreigner of any of the said regulations or bye laws which may be for the time being in force, then and in that case it shall be lawful for H.B.M. Consul, Vice-Consul, or other person duly authorized by H.B.M. Consul for the time being, to re-enter and re-possess all the land leased to the said foreigner within the limits of the said settlement, and all buildings thereon on behalf of IIer Majesty, her heirs, successors and assigns, and all interest, right, title and claim of the said foreign lessee of the said land, his executors, administrators and assigns to the premises demised by the lease of the said land, or any part thereof, shall thereupon absolutely cease and determine.

Be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for II.B.M. Consul, or other person duly authorized so to do, to enforce in like manner the same penalty of re-entry on the part of the Crown against the lessee of any land within the limits of the said settlement, if any native of China be allowed by the said lessee to erect or occupy

house or building upou the said land.

any

V.-The land which has been set apart for roads and bund shall remain hence- forth dedicated to the same use, and the lesses or their representatives shall put up boundary stones to define the limits of their respective lots. These stones shall be put up

in the presence of a British Consular Officer, and in cases where any portion of any lot is transferred, the part so transferred shall in like manner be defined by boundary stones, set up by the parties to the transfer, or their respresentatives, in the presence of some duly authorized officer of H.B.M. Consulate.

Should the owner of any land in the settlement neglect or refuse to put up such boundary stones when called upon by II.B.M. Consul to do so, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $25 for his original neglect, and to an additional penalty not ex- ceeding $5 per day for each succeeding day's neglect or refusal to comply with the said Consul's requisition.

VI.-The Chinese land tax of 1,500 copper cash per mow, as reserved in the Crown leases, shall be paid by the several lesses thereof into H.B.M. Consulato within twenty one days next after the 30th of September of each year.

VII-It being expedient and necessary for the better order and good govern- ment of the settlement that some provision should be made for the making of roads and jetties, and for cleansing, lighting, watering and draining the settlement generally, and establishing a watch or police force therein, and paying the person necessarily employed in any municipal office or capacity, the British Consul shall, in the month of April of each year, convene a general meeting of land renters, giving twelve days' notice of said ineeting, to devise ways and means for raising the requisite funds for the aforesaid purposes; and at such meeting it shall be competent to the said renters, or a majority of them, in public meeting duly assembled, to declare an assessment upon the aggregate area of the lots in the settlement, towards which assessment each

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