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master of the ship, and also the owner or agent and any person who send to sea, if such owner or agent or person be party or privy to the offence, liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.

7. Where a ship so proceeding to sea takes to sea when on board ther execution of his duty any officer authorised to detain the ship, or any S officer appointed by the Governor, the owner and master of the ship shal liable to pay all expenses of and incidental to the officer or Surveyor being to sea, and also a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, or if the offen prosecuted in a summary manner, not exceeding fifty dollars for every day officer or Surveyor returns, or until such time as would enable him after le ship to return to the port from which he is taken, and such expenses may be in like manner as the penalty.

16. Whosoever, with intent to defraud, shall forge, or alter, or shall of dispose of, or put off knowing the same to be forged or altered, any certifica document, matter, or thing named in this Ordinance, or any regulation ma under, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liab discretion of the Supreme Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any exceeding seven years, or to be imprisoned with or without bard labour.

GENERAL PORT REGULATIONS FOR BRITIS

CONSULATES IN CHINA

The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, acting authority conferred upon him by the 85th Section of the China and Japan Council, 1865, hereby declares the following Regulations, made, in pursuar above Order in Council, to secure the observance of Treaties and the ma of friendly relations between British subjects and Chinese subjects and to be applicable to all ports which are, or may hereafter become, open trade:-

I.-The British Consulate offices at the several open ports shall be o public business from 10 o'clock_A.M. to 4 o'clock P.M. daily, excepting Christmas Day, Good Friday, Queen's Birthday, Easter Monday, those upon which public offices in England are closed, and Chinese New Year's such Chinese holidays as the Chinese Customs authorities may observe.

II. On the arrival of any British vessel at the anchorage of any of port, the master shall, within 24 hours, deposit his ship's papers, togethe summary of the manifest of her cargo, at the Consulate office, unless a S holiday shall intervene.

III.- Every British vessel must show her national colours on entering anchorage, and keep them hoisted until she shall have been reported at the and her papers deposited there.

IV. No British vessel or any vessel the property of a British subje provided with a certificate of registry, or provisional or other pass from t intendent of Trade at Peking, or from the Colonial Government at Hongk hoist the British ensign within any port or anchorage, or any flag simi British ensign or of a character not to be easily distinguishable from it. any registered British vessel flying the Red ensign hoist any other ensig (except she be entitled to fly the Blue ensign) in use by Her Majesty's vess or the national ensign of any foreign State or any ensign or flag not p tinguishable from the ensigns used by Her Majesty's ships of war or f down by Ships of foreign States.

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