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

H.B.M. Consul, to apprehend forthwith all persons whatsoever within the limits of the settlement who may be found in the act of committing a nuisance, or cominitting a felony, or breaking the peace, or being drunk and disorderly, or who may be charged with the commission of the said offences; and H.B.M. Consul shall in the first instance enquire into the said charge, and deal with the accused according to law if he be a British subject, and, if not, the said Consul shall send the accused in custody to his own national authority, with a statement and with the evidence of the crime or offence on account of which he had been apprehended, and if the accused have no Consular representative at Tientsin, then H.B.M. Consul shall request the local Chinese authorities to deal with the case, and shall depute an officer of H.B.M. Consulate to act as an assessor at the trial of the accused.

Provided always, that no constable shall, without a special warrant, enter any occupied lot or compound for the purpose of apprehending any person or persons therein, unless called upon by one of its occupants to do so, or unless pursuing an offender into said lot or compound.

XVII.-The masters, mates, and seamen of merchant vessels shall not be allowed to carry firearms or other dangerous weapons about the settlement, nor shall persons be permitted to drive or ride furiously along the Bund and roads, nor causelessly to create a noise or disturbauce thereon. It shall be the duty of the consular constable and other special constables charged with enforcing those regulations, to apprehend any person whatsover offending against this regulation, and to bring him in the first instance before H.B.M. Consul, who may punish the offender for each offence, if said offender be a British subject, by a fine not exceeding $10, or by one week's imprisonment with or without hard labour.

If the said offender, however, be not a British subject, then H.B.M. Consul shall send him in custody to his own national authority, with a statement of the offence on account of which he has been apprehended. Provided that should the said offender have no Consular representative at Tientsin, then H.B.M. Consul shall request the local Chinese authorities to deal with the case, and shall depute an officer of H.B.M. Consulate to act as an assessor at the trial of the accused.

XVIII.-No tavern, public-house, boarding-house, or house of entertainment shall be opened within the limits of the settlement without a licence from HB M. Consul, and without paying the annual licence fee in such behalf payable, and said licence shall be granted subject at any time to revocation, should it be proved that such house or tavern is conducted in an improper or disreputable manner, or that the inmates or frequenters thereof misconduct themselves or act in a disorderly manner. Persons convicted of a breach of this regulation shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $100, which fine shall be summarily recoverable by H.B.M. Consul from the proprietor of the house if he be a leaseholder or British subject, and if not, from the leaseholder upon whose land the said house is situated.

XIX. No vessel laden with gunpowder or other dangerous combustible material shall be allowed to be moored to the mooring posts along the British Bund; nor shall any such aforesaid materials be stored in houses or godowns within the limits of the settlement, under a penalty not exceeding $200, for each breach of this regulation, which penalty shall be summarily recoverable from the hirer of said building, or the leaseholder of the lot upon which said building is situated, as the case may be, in the same way as the penalty attached to a breach of regulation No. 18 of these regulations.

XX.—All vessels that moor along the British Bund must fasten their hawsers to the mooring posts set apart for their use, paying such mooring charges in that behalf as are payable, and the police of the settlement shall see that no hawsers or chain cables are made fast to trees, or fixed in such a way as to impede the public path.

XXI.-The committee of land renters, or their secretary, may recover summarily before H.B.M. Consul, or other Consul having competent jurisdiction, all penalties imposed by these regulations and by any bye-laws which may hereafter be framed under the said regulations and approved by H.B.M. minister; and it shall be lawful for the said Consul to adjudge the offender to pay the penalty incurred, together