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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1883. 727

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 295.

The following Notifications are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st August, 1883.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

NOTIFICATION.

Whereas it seems fit for the peace, order and good government of British Subjects resident in or resorting to Japan, and for the observance of the stipulations of Treaties between Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, and His Majesty the Mikado of Japan, and for the maintenance of friendly relations between British subjects and Japanese subjects and authorities, that British subjects resident in or resorting to Japan should observe and comply with the Regulations issued by the Imperial Japanese Government on the twenty-third day of June 1882, for the prevention of the spread of cholera, by the inspection of all vessels arriving from infected localities so long as and wherever such Regulations shall be from time to time in force :-

And whereas it seems fit that a penalty should be imposed upon and be leviable from any British Subject who shall wilfully infringe the provisions of the said Regulations, the undersigned, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, under and by virtue of the powers vested in him by Articles 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 20, of the China and Japan Order in Council 1881, and of any other power enabling him in that behalf, has made the following Regulation, which Regulation being urgent the same shall take effect, and shall continue to have effect unless and until it is disapproved by Her Majesty The Queen, and until notification of such disapproval has been received and published in the manner provided for in the said Order in Council :-

REGULATION.

Any British Subject who shall wrongfully and wilfully contravene or infringe or interfere with the execution of the provisions of the Regulations issued by the Japanese Government on the twenty- third day of June, 1882, so long as and wherever such Regulations shall from time to time be in force and form a part of the municipal law of Japan, shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Regulation, which is a Regulation of urgency, and on conviction thereof by or before any of Her Majesty's Courts in Japan shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars without imprisonment, and with or without a further fine for a continuing offence not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each day during which the offence continues after the original fine is incurred.

Given under my hand at Her Britannic Majesty's Legation, at Tokio, this twenty-seventh day of June, 1882.

(Signed)

HARRY S. PARKES.

NOTIFICATION.

With reference to the Regulation made by Her Majesty's Minister, on the 27th June, 1882, for the prevention of the spread of Cholera, the Undersigned is authorized by Sir HARRY S. PARKES, to publish, for the information and guidance of British Subjects resident in Japan, the following transla- tion of a note which he has received from His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that the Port of Swatow in China has been declared to be an infected Port, and that therefore the Regulations for the Inspection of vessels arriving from localities infected with Cholera, issued by the Imperial Japanese Government, on the 23rd June, 1882, and annexed to the Regulation above-mentioned, will be put into force in the case of all vessels arriving from Swatow, at the Ports, of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki.

Given under my hand, at Her Britannic Majesty's Legation, Tokio, this eighth day of August, 1883.

P. LE POER TRENCH, Secretary of Legation in charge.