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No. S. 100.

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NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No.

No. 24/1934.

It is hereby notified that the following Notice to Mariners has been issued by the Ministry of National Economy of the Turkish Republic:-

1. Article 2 of the law relating to Ports, published in the Official Gazette of

April 25th 131 No. 95 is textually as follows :—

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Article 2. All ships entering or leaving Turkish ports are compelled to comply with the provisions of the present law as well as with those of regulations subsequently to be drawn up and promulgated by the Government, specifying for each port on the basis of its special requirements, and of the technical considerations involved, ships' anchorages, quayside berths, the manner of loading and unloading merchandise, the places and times when inflammable materials may be landed or shipped, the duration of ships' stay in the ports, and finally the measures designed to assure general security and order in the ports.

2. Article 11 of the above law runs as follows:-

Article 11. Those who infringe the present law and the regulations. mentioned in Article 2, are liable to a fine of from £t. 5 to £t. 200. In cases of repetition of these offences, the fines are doubled.

Harbour-Masters are authorised to fix the fine and to collect it.

3. By virtue of the last paragraph of Article 2 of the above law and of the decision of the Council of State, Article 17, and the last paragraphs of articles 60 and 62 of Decree No. 14730 of the 25th July, 1933, published in the Official Gazette No. 2471 of the 7th August, 1933, for the Port of Constantinople are as follows:

Article 17. All ships passing through the Bosphorus towards the Black Sea, must, as long as it is possible to do so without danger, keep to the left of the centre line of the Strait, i.e., The Rumelian (European) side; and ships coming from the Black Sea must also keep to the left, i.e., the Anatolian (Asiatic) side. Article 25 of the regulations relating to collisions at sea will not be applied in the Bosphorus- the ferry-boats of the Sirketi Hayriye and of the suburbs will manoeuvre as necessary to go alongside their piers.

Article 60. (Last Paragraph). The Harbour-Master is empowered to apply penalties, in accordance with Article 11 of law No. 618 relat- ing to ports, to those who infringe the provisions of the present re- gulations.

Article 62. The present regulations will enter into force six months after

the date of their publication, i.e., as from 7-2-1934.

Harbour Department,

7th March. 1934.

20-8-1933.

G. F. HOLE,

Harbour Master, &e,