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

III--No vessel is allowed to anchor in the line of the Fairway Marks acros the Bar, or within three hundred feet above or below said line.

IV. The Officer in charge of the Harbour Master's Station at Woosung is authorized to keep a clear channel from the Inner Bar as far out as t Woosung Spit Buoy, and to notify any vessel which may be anchored in such a position as to obstruct or endanger the navigation of this channel, to remove to such berth as he may point out.

V. Should the Commanding Officer of a vessel refuse to move her, after the Berthing Officer has informed him that he considers the vessel to be obstructing or endangering navigation, such vessel will be held presumptively responsible for all damage which may be caused by other vessels colliding with her.

V-No vessel will be allowed to discharge or take on board cargo at Woosung until she is moored in a berth approved by the Berthing Officer.

VII.— The management of vessels when taking up the bertha to which they are directed, will, in all cases, be left in the hands of the Pilot or Commanding Officer.

VIII.-The officer in charge of the Harbour Master's station at Woeung will board all inward bound sailing vessels between the Woosung Creek and the Station, for the purpose of receiving their reports, and, in case of a vessel being towed, the tug must slow down or stop while the vessel is being boarded.

Masters of vessels committing breaches of the foregoing Regulations will be dealt with by the Consular authorities.

N.B.-Permit to discharge or load cargo at Woosung can only be obtained by special application to the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai.

Shanghai, January, 1879,

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.

I. The port is limited by a line drawn from Paou-shan Point to the Battery on the right bank of the river below Woosung.

II. Customs' officers will board ships entering the port, and examine them after clearance outwards.

III. The anchorage is between the Teen-how Temple and the new or lower Dock.* No vessel must move from her berth without express permission.

IV. Masters must deposit their ship's papers and manifest with their Consul (if they have no Consul, with the Customs) within forty-eight hours after entering the port. For failing to do this, they are liable to fine.

V. The manifest must contain an account of the marks, numbers, and contents of every package on board. For exhibiting a false manifest, the master is liable to fine, Errors must be corrected on the day on which the manifest is landed in to the Customs. If any portion of the cargo be for re-exportation, it must be so entered upon the manifest; goods found on board not specified in the mauifest are liable to confiscation.

VI. Neither cargo nor ballast can be shipped or unshipped, except within the límits of the anchorage, and between sunrise and sunset on all days, Sundays and holidays excepted.

VII. When a vessel is entered and her manifest received, the consignees of her cargo shall hand in to the Customs their Applications to Land. These must give the number of packages, with their marks, weight, quantity, and other such like parti- vulars, and be accompanied by their delivery orders. The delivery orders will be stamped and returned to the consignees, who may then and their consignments. If cargo h neshipped without such delivery order duly stamped, it is liable to confis- cation, and the master to fine.

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VIII.—Wh the whole of the inward en is discharged, the vessel is examined by a Customs Shippers may fond in to the Crat their Application

•hich must, as in the case of the Application to Lanu, je full particulars, and he accompanied by their shipping orders. The shipping orders will be stamped

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* The outer boat has been enlarged to the Harbour Master's hulk Ngepuki. The inner Nuit has been enlarged to a

line running west to eat from the house under the city wall formally occupied by Mr. Culbertson