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REGULATIONS, &c. MADE BY H.B.M.'s MINISTER IN JAPAN.

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before any of Her Majesty's Courts in Japan shall be liable to be imprisoned for term not exceeding three months with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars without imprisonment and with or without a further fine for a continuing offence not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each day during which the offence continues after the original fine is incurred.

Translation.

IMPERIAL DECREE, No. 31.

It is hereby decreed that vessels arriving from localities infected with cholera. shall be inspected according to the following Regulations —

Regulations for the Inspection of Vessels arriving from localities infected with cholera.

1.--All vessels arriving from localities infected with cholera shall be subject to medical inspection, and no vessel so arriving shall proceed to her destination or communicate with the shore or other vessels or land her crew, passengers, or cargo, until a written permission so to do, signed by one of the inspecting officers, shall have been so granted as hereinafter provided.

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2. When there are no cholera patients, or bodies of pers. ns who may have died from the said disease, on board such vessels, the inspecting officers shall forth with grant permission to such vessels to proceed to their destination, and communicate with the shore or other vessels and to land their crews, passengers, and cargo.

3.—Vessels so arriving and having on board cholera patients, or the bodies of persons who may have died of the said disease, shall be required to anchor at a place designated by the inspecting officers at a safe distance from the land and other vessels.

The patients shall be sent to the quarantine hospital, or to their residences, or other places which the inspecting officers may deem suitable. The dead bodies (if any) of persons who may have died of the said disease shall (at the option of persons interested, if any) be either burned at a place prepared by the local authorities for that purpose, or burried at such lace as the local authorities may designate, after undergoing thorough disinfection.

After final disposition of such patients and dead bodies (if any) shall have been made, the inspecting officers shall thoroughly disinfect the crew and

passengers, and shall thereupon grant permission for them to land. The inspecting officers shall thoroughly disinfect said vessels and such portion of their cargoes as may be con- sidered to be of an infectious character, and thereupon grant permission for them to proceed to their destination, or communicate with the shore or other vessels and to land cargo.

4. Any person or persons who shall contravene or infringe the provisions of the foregoing regulations, or shall in any manner interfere with the execution of said provisions shall be punished according to the criminal code.

5. The localities where these regulations shall be put in force and the length of time for which they shall be continued in force, will be determined from time to time by the Minister of the Interior.

Dated the 23rd of the 6th month 15th year Mejii (23rd of June, 1882).

By command of H.I.M. the Emperor,

(Signed)

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SANJO SANCTOMI,

Prime Minister.

YAMADA OKIYOSHI,

Minister of the Interior.

Additional Clause added to Article II. of the Regulations for the Inspection of Vessels coming from Localities infected with Cholera issued June 23rd, 1882.

The Quarantine Officials may whenever they deem it necessary, effect complete disinfection of such vessels by requiring them to remain at an anchorage to be designated by them for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours.