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JAPAN HARBOUR REGULATIONS

If any materials detrimental to the harbour shall have been thrown into the sea or shall have been allowed to fall in through negligence by any ship, they shall be removed by the ship upon receipt of an order to that effect from the Harbour Master; and if not so removed the Harbour Master may cause them to be removed at the ship's expense.

Art. XIV. Any ship intending to leave port shall give notice at the Harbour Master's Office and hoist the Blue Peter.

Steamers which have fixed dates of departure need only make one declaration on their arrival and departure.

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Art. XV. All wreckage or other substances which obstruct the public fairway in a harbour or its approaches must be removed by their owner within the time indicated by the Harbour Master. If this order is not complied with within the time specified by the Harbour Master, the Harbour Master may cause them to be removed or destroyed at the owner's expense.

Art. XVI.—A suitable and sufficient number of buoy moorings for regular Mail Steamers shall be provided by the Harbour Master's Office. A prescribed fee shall be charged for the use of such moorings.

Art. XVII.—No chains, ropes, or other gear shall be attached to any lightship, signal, buoy or beacon.

Any vessel running foul of or damaging a light-ship, buoy, beacon, jetty, or any other structure shall pay the necessary expenses for repairs or replacement.

Art. XVIII.-Any infringement of the provisions of the present Regulations shall render the offender liable to a fine of not less than Yen 2 and not exceeding

Yen 200.

Art. XIX.-The Master of a vessel shall also be held responsible for any fines, fees or expenses which may be imposed or charged on or in respect of the vessel.

Art. XX. No vessel shall be allowed to depart until all fines, fees and expenses imposed or charged under these Regulations shall have been paid, or until security therefor to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master shall have been deposited with the Harbour Master.

Art. XXI.-The word "Harbour Master " as used in these Regulations is also meant to include the Harbour Master's Assistants and Deputies; and by the word "Master" is meant any person in command of, or having the direction of, a ship, whatever his designation may be; and by the word "Port or "Harbour one of the ports or harbours enumerated in Article I. of these Regulations.

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Art. XXII.-A portion of each harbour shall be reserved as a man-of-war anchorage.

Art. XXIII. The only provisions in these Regulations which shall apply to men-of-war are those contained in Articles IV., VI., XII. and XXI., and in the first and second paragraphs of Article XIII.

Art. XXIV. The time when and the localities where these Regulations are to come into operation shall be notified by the Minister of Communications. The Minister of Communications shall also issue detailed rules for the due enforcement. of these Regulations.

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