H.B.M. SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND JAPAN
VIII. UNLAWFUL TRADE WITH JAPAN.
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92. All trade of British subjects in, to, or from any part of Japan, Trade amesgt to except such ports and towns as are for the time being open to British open ports
bjects by Treaty between Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, is hereby declared unlawful.
If any person engages in such trade as a principal, agent, ship-owner, ship-master, or supercargo, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, ad on conviction thereof shall be liable to be punished (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term cot exceeding two years with or without hard labour, and with or without
fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars without imprisonment.
unlawful.
93. It the Court before which any person charged with having Report of committed such a misdemeanour is brought is a Provincial Court, the Provincial Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of
the case.
The Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (uotwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.
Court.
94. The Officer commanding any of Her Majesty's vessels of war, or seisure of any of Her Majesty's Naval Officers authorised in this behalf by the vessel, & Officer having the Command of Her Majesty's Naval Forces in Japan, by writing under his hand may seize any British vessel engaged or reasonably suspected of being or having been engaged in any trace by this Order declared unlawful, and may either detain the vessel, with the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons engaged in navigating the Tessel, or any of them, or take or cause to be taken the vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons aforesaid, or any of them, to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere, convenient for the prosecution of a charge for the misdemeanour alleged to have been committed.
Any such vessel, maste, officers, supercargo, crew, and persons may larfully be detained at the place of seizure, o. at the port or place to which the vessel is so taken, under the authority of any such officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China or Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in re pect of such minour.
IX.-JAPANESE WAT 5.
waters, &c.
95. When and as often as it appears to Her Majesty's Minister in Regulations Japan that the unrestricted entrance of British vessels into, or the ato entering unrestricted passage of British vessels through, any straits or other water in Japan may lead to acts of disturbance or violence, or may otherwise endanger the maintenance of peaceful relations and intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects and the subjects of the Tycoon of Japan, Her Majesty's Minister may make any regulations for prohibiting or for restricting, in such manner as seems expedient, the entrance or passage of any British vessel (other than a vessel of war of Her Majesty) into or through any such straits or other water as aforesaid, as defined in the Regulation.
Her Majesty's Minister may from time to time revoke or alter any such regulation.
96. The forgoing provisions of this Order relative to the making, Penalties and printing, publication, enforce nt, and proof of Regulations to be made by proceedings.
Her Majesty's Minister in China, and to the mode of proceeding in respect
of
auy charge for an offence against any such Regulations, shall extend
and apply, mutatis mutandis, to any Regulation made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, as last aforesaid.
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