Directory_and_Chronicle_1879 — Page 848

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

Bonds for junks deposited by parties not agents of mercantile firms heretofore established in China must be entered into by such parties with two sufficient sureties.

N.B.-The office will be open for the transaction of general business from 10 A.M.

- to 4 P.M., Sundays and holidays excepted.

The tide-surveyor will be on duty for the inspection of the papers of steamers that have not to discharge or ship cargo, on all days, from daylight in the morning until midnight.

Communications regarding Customs' business, together with appplications for junk bonds, should be addressed to the Commissioner of Customs.

KIUKIANG.

I.--The limits of the anchorage for ordinary vessels are from the West end of the City Wall to Lung-kai Creek.

II.-Steamers trading r gularly on the river under licence from the Chinese Customs, and not remaining in port above 24 hours, and sailing vessels, provided they do not break bulk or remain in port more than 24 hours, are not required to deposit their papers with summary of manifest under General Regulation No. III.

III.-Vess having on board more than 200lbs. of explosive or combustible material must anchor at a distance of not less than one mile from the Foreign Settle- ment and from the Native City.

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HANKOW.

The limits of the anchorage at Hankow are as follows:-

South: Within lines drawn from the Pagoda on the summit of the bill on the Hanyang side to the Hanyang gate of the Wuchang city on the opposite bank of the river.

North: Below the British concession ground from its boundary limit across to the opposite bank of the river to the Custom-house, called by the Chinese Wuchang.

CHEFOO.

The limits of the port of Chefoo (Yentai), in the district of Tang-chow-foo, are within a line drawn from the Eastern end of the peninsula called Che-foo-tao, to the northern and eastern extremities of the Kungtung islands, and from them to the mainland.

TIENTSIN.

PORT REGULATIONS.

Every British sailing vessel, whether intending to pass up the river to Tientsin or not, shall report at the Vice-Consulate at Taku, and lodge her papers there. Provided that, if a sailing vessel passes up the river to Tientsin she shall take up with her the ship's articles and deposit said document at the Consulate at Tientsin; said articles shall be handed back to the master when the vessel is about to return to Taku, where she shall receive her other papers and port clearance of the Vice- Consulate.

British steamers bound for Tientsin shall not be required to report and lodge their papers at Taku, but may report and clear at Tientsin. Provided, that if a 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-Consulate at the port.