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HONGKONG ,



ANNO SEPTIMO




VICTORIÆ REGINE.


No. 9 of 1844.


Y His Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER, Baronet, Knight
B the Most of
Major-General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depen-
dencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects
in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance to restrain all Persons within the Colony of Title.
Hongkong from Trading in the Empire of China to the Northward of
the Thirty-second Degree of North Latitude.
[ 10th April, 1844. ]

WHEREAS to secure the due Observance of the Treaties between Preamble.
the Empires of Great Britain and China, it is expedient to confine
the Trade of all Persons within the Colony of Hongkong, to the
Limits included by the Five Ports in China, provided by the said
Treaties for the same :


I. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Trade to the North-
Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That all ward
Secondof Degree
the Thirty-
of
Trade whatsoever, by any Person within the Colony of Hongkong, North Latitude to be
in, to, or from any Part of the Coast of China, to the Northward of unlawful.
the Thirty-second Degree of North Latitude, shall be, and is hereby
declared to be Unlawful.


II. And be it enacted, If any Person within the Colony offorbiddenConveyingLimits.
goods from
Hongkong shall Export or Carry, or Contract for Exporting or
Carrying, or shall Ship or Embark, or Contract for Shipping and
Embarking, from, to, or in the Limits aforesaid, any Treasure, Goods,
or Merchandise whatsoever ; or shall Fit out, Man, Navigate, Equip, for unlawful Trade.
Despatch, Use, Employ, Let, Take to Freight or on Hire, any Vessel ; or
so Contract, in order to Embark in the Trade hereby declared
Unlawful ; or shall knowingly and wilfully Lend and Advance, or
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