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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c. offences not exceeding in any case 25 dollars for each day during which the offence continues after the original fine is incurred.

(Signed)

HARRY S. PARKES.

Iler Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan.

H.B.M.'s Legation, Osaka, January 1st, 1868.

REGULATIONS.

I.-Every British vessel on entering the port must show her colours, and keep them hoisted until the master shall have reported her arrival and deposited her papers at the Consulate-office.

II.-Masters of ships on depositing their ships' papers at the Consulate-office must also deliver a copy of the import manifest, together with a list of all and persons not forming part of the registered crew on board.

passengers

III.-When a vessel is ready to leave the port, the master will obtain a port clearance from the Custom-house, which document, together with the manifest of bis export cargo, and a list of persons not forming part of the crew intending to leave the port in his vessel, must be delivered at the Consulate-office before the ship's papers can be returned to him. Masters of British vessels must always give twenty-

four-hours' notice before they can clear at the Consulate.

Consul.

IV-Stones, ballast, cinders, or any other substance tending to lessen the depth of the anchorage, shall not be thrown overboard within the limits of the har bour; but must be discharged at such place or places as shall be indicated by the V.-Any vessel having on board gunpowder, or any other explosive substance, in any quantity over and above that which is required for the use of the ship, must report the same at the Consulate-office, and until it is discharged, must anchor only in such berth as shall be assigned to her.

VI.-Cannon or fire-aruis may not be fired from British merchant vessels in the

harbour.

VII.-The time within which seamen are allowed to be on shore is limited to the

hours between sunrise and sunset.

VIII.-No boat or vessel (other than a duly registered British ship) shall hoist the British Ensign within the limits of the Consular district, unless authorized by the Consul to do so; nor shall she exhibit within such limits any flag so similar to the British Ensign as not to be distinguishable from it. Neither shall any British subject hoist the British Ensign or any other flag not distinguishable from it over any place or residence on shore, without special authority from the Consul.

reported at the Consulate-office.

IX.—All cases of death, occurring either afloat or on shore, must be immediately X.-No British subject may establish a boarding-house, eating-house, or other 1∙lace of entertainment, or a butcher's shop, or may keep or slaughter pigs, sheep, cattle without the sanction of the Consul, and under such conditions as

XI.-Gunpowder or other explosive substances can only be stored, on shore or afloat, at such place or places as may be indicated by the Consul.

he

or

may require.

XII.-No British subject may ride or drive in any street, road, or thoroughfare in a furious or careless manner.

public

XIII.-No dog belonging to a British subject shall be allowed to go about the streets or public thoroughfares unmuzzled between the 15th of June and the 15th

of November of each year.

XIV.-At Hiogo, British subjects may not go beyond the limits laid down in the Treaty of Yedo, namely "ten ri in any direction, that of Kioto excepted, which city shall not be approached nearer than ten ri," and at Osaka, they may not go beyond the limits laid down in the regulations on the subject which is published in a non tion by Her Majesty's Minister of this date.

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