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(B) No packages of cargo showing signs of having given shelter to rats or of having been attacked by them shall be allowed to leave the vessel until after being opened, in a place where escaping rats can be destroyed, and having their con- tents disinfected.

This Regulation will be enforced against vessels from Hongkong from the 1st of June,

J. DALTON,

Approved:

E. O. REIS,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, NEWCHWANG, 25th May, 1912.

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.

Harbour Master,

No. 4 of 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Affairs and the Consular Body hereby sanction the following amended form of the Regulations-laid down in Harbour Notification No. 5 of 1911 and thereby added to the "Sanitary Regulations for the Ports of Shanghai and Woosung" on the 10th February. 1911-for preventing the introduction of plague-infected rats :-

A.-Vessels from plague-infected ports having been admitted to pratique, shall anchor in the stream and discharge and ship by means of cargo-boats, using rat-guards on the lines by which the cargo-boats are made fast.

B.-Any vessel may, however, be allowed to lie alongside a wharf and to discharge

and load cargo thereat subject to the following conditions:-

1.-Upon presentation of a certificate, signed by the Port Health Authority at the port where the fumigation takes place, that all Cargo-spaces, Crews' Quarters and Store-rooms of such vessel, and such other parts as the Port Health Officer may think necessary in each case, have been properly fumigated, i.e., either (1) at Shanghai-immediately before departure for, or since her last arrival from the infected port-or (2) at the infected port during the vessel's last visit there, or (3) at an intermediate port touched at since leaving the infected port. 2.--That a sufficient number of floating fenders be placed between the vessel and the wharf or pontoon to keep her at least Four feet clear of the wharf-fender ropes to be made fast to the wharf and not to the vessel.

3.-That all ropes, etc., used for securing the vessel to a wharf or pontoon be efficiently fitted with rat-guards of a pattern approved by the Harbour Master.

4. That any package of cargo suspected of harbouring rats be examined

on board and, if found to contain rats, be disinfected. 5.-That, when a vessel is not engaged in loading or discharging, all cargo- ports and hatchways be closed and gangway planks withdrawn. One gangway will be allowed to remain provided that at night it be efficiently lighted at the ship end by two bright white lights-placed near deck level, one at each side of the gangway--and that a constant watch be kept at the head of the gangway.

C.-Permission to work at night will be given on condition that such work shall take place only over the upper deck, by means of derricks, all cargo-ports being closed and gangway planks withdrawn; except that one gangway will be allowed as provided in B.-5.

D.-Vessels which have been fumigated immediately after discharge of their import cargo may ship cargo alongside wharves without any restrictions except those detailed under B.-2, 3 and 5.

Approved:

H. F. MERRILL,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, SHANGHAI, 29th May, 1912.

H. G. MYHRE,

Deputy Harbour Master.