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UNITED STATES CONSULAR COURT REGULATION

(EMBEZZLEMENT, VAGRANCY) APRIL 13, 1907

Whereas, defects and deficiencies exist in the laws to be enforced by the judicial authorities of the United States in China as regards embezzlement and vagrancy:

Now therefore, by virtue of the power vested in me by Section 4086 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, I, William Woodville Rockhill, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at Peking, China, do hereby decree:

1. If any agent, attorney, clerk, or servant of a private person or co-partnership, or any officer, attorney, agent, clerk, or servant of any association or incorporated company, shall wrongfully convert to his own use, or fraudulently take, make away with, or secrete, with intent to convert to his own use, anything of value which shall come into his possession or under his care by virtue of his employment or office, whether the thing so converted be the property of his master or employer or that of any other person, co-partnership, association, or corporation, he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both.

2. All persons having no visible means of honest and reputable support, or who lead an idle and dissolute life; and all persons living by stealing or by trading in, bartering for, or buying, stolen property, shall be deemed and considered vagrants, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not exceeding sixty days, or both.

American Legation,

Peking, China, April 13, 1907.

W. W. ROCKHILL.