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LAWS CONCERNING SIAMESE AND FOREIGN VESSELS.

XI.-Masters and supercargoes of vessels shall ordinarily neither receive nor discharge cargo but tetween the hours of 6 A.M. and 6 P.M., when an officer will be in attendance on board. Special permission will have to be obtained from the Inspector of Customs to receive or discharge cargo at other than the above stated times.

XII.-That should permission not be granted by the Siamese authorities for a vessel to break bulk within 24 hours after her due entry, the Consul of the nation to whom the vessel belongs shall have power to order the discharge.

XIII. That the Siamese Government will be liable for damages in the case of any vess. I having been detained by the inspectors of imports and exports upon suspicion, which on examination appears to have been unfounded.

XIV. That all cases arising from a breach of these regulations shall be laid before the Consul co cerued, who will then with the Superintendent of Customs enquire whether the infraction has been intentional or through ignorance, and only in cases of wilful infringement of the regulations, shall they impose the full fine; in cases where there is no proof of the infringement being intentional they shall propor- tion the fine to the offence.

XV.—The native vessels shall be under the same strict control as vessels of other

nations.

Should it appear to the Consuls of this place that those whose interests are committed to them trade at a disadvantage in this last respect, they will withdraw their consent to the regulations.

LAWS CONCERNING VESSELS BELONGING TO SIAM, AND VESSELS FROM FOREIGN PORTS, LARGE VESSELS AND LIGHTERS WHICH COME INTO THE CHOW PHYA RIVER, OR INTO ANY OF THE RIVERS OF THE

PROVINCES BELONGING TO SIAM.

I.—If a vessel come into the Chow Phya river, she shall cast anchor at the Guard Station at Paknam. Her master shall then report his name, the name of his vessel, from whence she comes, how many men she has on board, and what merchan- dise she has, so that the officer at the station may first examine his vessel. If she bave guns and ammunition on board, the master shall deliver these to the care of the officer in charge. If the vessel going out be a merchant vessel belonging to a foreign port, or a vessel belonging to Siam, having a European or American captain, then she shall first be reported to Luang Wisuth Sakaratith, the Harbour-master, and then a pass be obtained for her at the Custom-office. But vessels belonging to the country, under Chinese or Mussulman flag, according to the custom of either, shall be reported to the officers of the port in the service of the Kromato of the right hand, or the Kromato of the left hand (according to whose business it is), and request a pass for the vessel according to the custom. When the vessel shall have dropped down to the Guard Station at Paknam. the pass shall be presented to the officer of the station, and, when the said officer discovers no cause why she should be detained, she may pass on.

In case a vessel that is coming in or going out do not stop at the Guard Station, and thus violate the treaties, she shall forfeit the sum of ight hundred ticals, as the treaties have stipulated. And if a vessel shall go into any port of the provinces, or come out of any sub port, she shall cast anchor at the Guard Station [at the mouth of such river] and report herself to the officer of the station, and whatever le shall direct the master to do in the premises, that must be done which is according to the treaties.

Light on Vessels, and Mooring Ships.

II-When any ship or vessel shall have entered into any river she shall keep a light burning three fathoms above her upper d. ck from early twilight to clear morning

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