37% PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, PILOTAGE, AND HARBOUR REGULA IONS, &c.
V.--Vessels are to moor in accordance with the orders received from the Harbour Master, and not to shift their berths or remove from the anchorage without a #pecial Permit.
VI.—Applications for berths, or for permission to shift, must be made to the Harbour Master's Office or to the Lower Station by the Shipmaster, the First Officer, or Pilot in charge, when the necessary instructions respecting the berth will be given.
VII.--All vessels are required to keep a light burning bright and clear at the atarboard yard-arm, or starboard fore-rigging when vessels have no yards, from dark until daylight.
VIII. -No vessels except men-of-war may use swinging booms. The swinging booms of men-of-war shall be rigged in from sunset to sunrise.
IX.--Vessels are required to keep their chains clear, especially towards the full and change of the moon, and not to have lines out from one vessel to another any longer time than necessary,
Boats towing asteru are to have short lines, in order not to block up the passage.
X. -Merchant vessels shall not fire off cannon or small arms within the limits of the Purt, without written permission from the Harbour Master.
XI.---- Vessels arriving at this port and having on board, as cargo, any number of Loaded Shell, or more than One Hundred pounds of Gunpowder, or more than Twenty Thousand Rounds of Rifle, Sporting, Gatling, Mitrailleuse, Pistol, or Revolver Cartridges, shell anchor not less than one inile below the lower limit of the Harbour and fly a red flag "No. 5" Marryat's or "B" Commercial Code] at the fore during the daytime and shall abide by the instructions received from the Customs concerning the discharge of the same.
XII. - Vessels arriving at this port and having on board, as cargo, in whatever quantity, any of the following mentioned articles, viz.:-Nitro-glycerine or Glonoin Dil, Gun Cotton, Fulminating Mercury, Dynamite, Lithofracteur, or any other substances used for Blasting purposes shall be subject to the same conditions as to anchorage, &c., as are laid down in Clause 11 of these Regulations.
XIII.-Vessels shall not be allowed to take on board; as cargo, any of the articles mentioned in Clauses 11 and 12 of these Regulations in weight or number execeding what is therein specified, without first proceding to an anchorage not less than one mile below the lower limit of the Harbour, from which, while baving such cargo on board, they shall only depart for the purpose of proceeding outside of Woosung.
XIV. Vessels arriving with Karosine Oil or Petroleum on board as cargo shail be berthed on the Pootung side of the 9th Section of the Harbour and must romain there until all such cargo has been discharged.
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XV. A vessel arriving with a contagious disease on board, shall not come nearer the lower limit of the Harbour than one mile, shall fly at the fore a yellow flog, and shall not allow any one to disembark or come on board, without permission from the Harbour Master's Office.
XVI. Masters of vessels shall not permit ballast, or ashes, to be thrown overboard.
XVII. —Ali vessels in Port must keep on board a sufficient number of hands to clear and pay out chain, &c., when required.
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XVIII. ~-Vessels on arriving in Port, must, as soon as possible, rig in their jib- booms, and must not subsequently rig them out, while within the Harbour limite, without permission from the Harbour Master.
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XIX. No Buy may be laid down without the sanction of the Harbour Master and his approval of the moorings by which it is to be held in position. Unoccupied Buoys must be lighted from sunset to sunrise.
XX.--Buoys that are already laid down are subject to the contro of the Harbour Master, and where they are so placed as to obstruct the passage of vessels through the Harbour or are not moored in such a way as to economize berthing space, the Harbour Master will be at liberty to order them to be shifted. In case of refusal or neglect on the part of the owners of a Buoy to shift its position, as directed by the
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