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GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL.

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The Consignees or Agents of vessels are responsible for any of the crew, who, on account of illness or any other cause, remain in the country with permission.

The Captains of vessels are bound, under a penalty of $10 for each case, to notify the Captain of the Port of any desertions that may take place on board in order to their arrest, and should such notification be made on the eve of the departure of the vessel, the Consignees or Agents become responsible for all expenses incurred for their arrest and transportation from the country.

17th. In case of the death of any individual on board a vessel, the Captain is bound to notify the Captain of the Port, state the cause of death, and ask permission for interment. A fine of $24 will be imposed for the burial of a body without permission, and a like fine for throwing a body overboard, and the Captain will likewise be responsible for the consequences such an act may lead to.

18th. The Captain of the Port will not despatch any vessel until he shall know that the Regulations of the Custom-house and Post-office have been attended to.

Any vessels leaving Port without being properly despatched, shall pay a fine of $2 per ton.

Vessels about to sail must indicate the intention with anticipation by hoisting a flag at the maintopmast head, under a penalty of $5.

19th.-Captains of vessels shall answer personally any summonses for their attendance that they may receive from the Civil authorities.

20th.-All vessels are bound to keep their anchor lights burning from Sunset to Sunrise, and delinquents will be fined $5, and held responsible for the damages their carelessness in this respect may cause.

21st. After a vessel's departure, the general intent of these Regulations will remain in force as against the Consignees or Agents, who may have guaranteed their fulfilment; the amount guaranteed will be collected and distributed in proportion to the amount of claims arising, and claimants will retain their action against delinquents should they return to this country.

22nd. The penalties imposed under these Regulations will be doubled in case of a repetition of the offence, and offenders will be liable for all expenses incurred, and be subject to indictment should aggravating circumstances render such a course

necessary.

23rd.-All former Regulations and Tariffs not in accordance with the present are hereby abrogated.

Manila, 1st May, 1874.

ILOILO.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRADE AND NAVIGATION OF ILOILO.

By Nicolas Loney, Esq., Her Majesty's Vice-Consul.

Vessels bound from Manila, or from Ports to the Northward, during the N.E. Monsoon, safely proceed towards Iloilo by the Maricaban passage between Luzon and Mindoro, and through the chain of Islands off N.E. coast of Panay. For this route, the charts of the Spanish "Commission Idrogafica," compiled by Don Claudio Monteros in 1857, would be useful. After passing Tablas and Remblon (which latter island possesses an excellent harbour, much frequented by coasting vessels as a port of refuge and for obtaining supplies), steer for the group of small islands called collectively the "Silanga," lying off the N.E. of Panay, a good mark for which is the high conical island called Pan de Azucar, or Sugar-loaf, which is visible from a great distance. In approaching these islands during the N.E. monsoon, vessels should pass between the islets of Jintotolo and Zapato-Major, and during the S.W. monsoon more in towards the Panay shore, between Olutaty and Zapato-Minor. After leaving the Zapato, the course is to the south of the Gigantes, and the channel through the group of islands is generally entered between Snogon and Calanan, from whence the route is continued between Culebre and the main Pan de Azucar and Malangaban, inside Ygbon Bulabadingan and Tagubanhan islands. Through the passage between these islands there is safe anchorage. The Estancia affords excellent