ADDITIONAL LAND REGULATIONS* for the General Foreign Settlement at Shanghai. June 3, 1899.

UNDER and in pursuance of the provisions of "The China and Japan Order in Council, 1881,"+ Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the three additional "Land Regulations for the General Foreign Settlement at Shanghai," of which a copy is annexed hereto.

SALISBURY.

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Foreign Office, June 3, 1899.

[These Regulations, which relate to Land for Public Roads (No. 6A), Railways (No. 6B), and Buildings (No. 30), are given in full in "Hertslet's China Treaties," Edition of 1908.]

SANITARY REGULATIONS for the Ports of Shanghai and Woosung. Shanghai, February 15, 1900.

Revised Sanitary Regulations for the Ports of Shanghai and

Woosung.

THE following Regulations have been agreed to and sanctioned by the Superintendent of Customs and the Treaty Power Consuls at the Port, and are now published for the information and guidance of all concerned.

By Order of the Inspector-General of Customs,

LS. ROCHER. Commissioner of Customs.

Custom House, Shanghai, 15th February, 1900.

Definitions.

1. Port Health Officer shall mean the Medical Officer holding that appointment, the Deputy Port Health Officer, or such

*See Regulations of 1869. Page 100.

Repealed. See Order in Council of October 24, 1904, Article 169, Vol. 24, page 301.

other Medical Officers as may be appointed to temporarily

fulfil their duties.

2. An infected vessel is one which on arrival outside Woosung has on board, or which has had on board within 10 days of her arrival, a case of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, or plague, or a person who might reasonably be suspected of being affected by any one of these diseases, or the dead body of a person who had been, or who might reasonably be suspected to have been, so affected.

3. A plague-infected vessel is an infected vessel as above, in which the disease existing (or having existed) is bubonic plague.

4. A suspected vessel is one which arrives outside Woosung within 10 days from her departure from an infected port, whether she has called at an intermediate port or not.

5. The Chungpaosha Quarantine Anchorage is that to the south-west of Chungpaosha. Its south-western limit is marked by two white buoys.

General Regulations.

1. Infected and suspected vessels on approaching Woosung shall hoist the yellow flag at the fore, and this shall be kept flying until pratique has been granted by the Port Health

Officer.

2. No person shall be allowed to go on board or to leave an infected or suspected vessel without the sanction of the Port Health Officer, nor shall such vessel be allowed to discharge or take in cargo, baggage, &c., without such sanction.

3. Pilots bringing in infected or suspected vessels shall not leave such vessels without authority to do so from the Port Health Officer. It is their duty to see that tow-boats, when used, tow ahead, and that no material intercommunication takes place.

4. The Port Health Officer will inspect vessels between the hours of 6 A.M. and 6 P.M. as soon as possible after their arrival. The master shall, on the Port Health Officer's requisition, muster the officers, crew, and passengers, give every facility for the examination of the vessel, and afford all required information within his knowledge regarding the past and present sanitary condition of the vessel.

5. During such period as the Chungpaosha Sanitary Station is not in operation, vessels bound to Shanghai or Woosung shall be governed by Special Regulations A, in addition to the General Regulations.

6. During such period as the Chungpaosha Sanitary Station is in operation, owing to the declaration of infection of other ports, vessels bound to Shanghai, Woosung, or to any of the Yang-tsze River ports shall be governed by Special Regula tions B, in addition to the General Regulations.

7. It rests with the Superintendent of Customs and the Board of Treaty Consuls

(a) To declare, when necessary, the infection of ports. (b) To withdraw such declaration.

(c) To declare the operating or non-operating of the Chungpaosha Sanitary Station.

(d) To authorize such other precautions as may be expedient for the purpose of preventing either the importation or-in the event of an epidemic of disease in the portsthe exportation of disease.

The public will be informed of such declarations by means of a Harbour Notification. The Commissioner of Customs (or other authority in the case of a foreign port) at the port declared infected will be informed by the Shanghai Commissioner of the declaration of infection or its withdrawal.

8. Should a case of any of the diseases mentioned in Definition 2 of these Regulations, with the exception of plague or suspected plague, occur on board a vessel in either of the two harbours, the fact should be immediately reported to the Harbour Master, who may, moved thereto by the Port Health Officer, order such vessel to proceed to a berth below the Cosmopolitan Dock in the case of Shanghai, or to be isolated as circumstances permit in the case of Woosung, there to be treated as in Special Regulations A.

9. Should a case of plague or suspected plague occur on board a vessel in either of the two harbours, the fact should be immediately reported to the Harbour Master, who may, moved thereto by the Port Health Officer, order such vessel to proceed to the Chungpaosha Quarantine Anchorage, there to be treated as in Special Regulations B.

10. The importation of the following articles from plagueinfected ports is prohibited: furs, skins, hair, rags, old paper, fresh fruit, vegetables, plants of any kind to which earth or vegetable mould adheres, coffins containing corpses, earth, mould, and sand.

11. Any person who commits a breach of these Regulations will be dealt with by the authorities to whose jurisdiction he is amenable.

Special Regulations A.

1. No plague-infected vessel shall enter either of the two ports. Such a vessel shall anchor outside the Woosung Spit Buoy, and, if declared infected by the Port Health Officer, she may be ordered by the Harbour Master to proceed to the Chungpaosha Quarantine Anchorage, there to be treated as laid down in Special Regulations B.

2. An infected or suspected vessel (other than a plague-infected one), if bound to Woosung, shall anchor where directed by the Berthing Officer; if bound to Shanghai, she shall anchor below the Cosmopolitan Dock.

Such a vessel will be granted pratique when the instructions of the Port Health Officer concerning the removal and/or isolation of infected persons and the purification of the vessel have been carried out.

3. The removal of an infected person must be conducted under the superintendence of a qualified medical practitioner, and care must be taken that no discharge from such patient, no washings from his body, clothes, or bed, be thrown overboard without previous thorough disinfection; nor may anything which it is considered necessary to destroy be cast overboard.

Special Regulations B.

1. Infected and suspected vessels shall on arrival anchor within the Chungpaosha Quarantine Anchorage.

2. In the case of infected vessels, measures will be taken, under the direction of the Port Health Officer, for the removal and/or isolation of all infected and suspected persons, for the removal of all infected bodies, and for the purification of the vessel; and the vessel shall not be released from quarantine until such purification has taken place and/or she has been in quarantine for a period not exceeding 10 days from the date of the removal of the last infected case.

3. In the case of suspected vessels, should there be no case or suspicious case of infection found during inspection, the vessel shall (Harbour Notifications being complied with) be admitted to immediate pratique. Should there be a suspicious case, the vessel becomes an infected vessel.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS for the Port of Shanghai. Shanghai, March 17, 1900.

Harbour Regulations for the Port of Shanghai.

THE following Regulations have been agreed to and sanctioned by the Treaty Power Consuls at the Port, and are now published for the information and guidance of all concerned.

By order of the Inspector-General of Customs,

LS. ROCHER. Commissioner of Customs.

Custom House, Shanghai, March 17, 1900.

1. The anchorage for foreign vessels is between the southern end of the Chinese Bund and the Yangking Creek. 2. Vessels entering the anchorage will be boarded by the Assis tant Harbour Master, who will direct them to proper berths. 3. River, coast, and mail steamers having determined berths are allowed on arrival to proceed to them without stoppage, unless they have dangerous or explosive cargo or infectious disease on board, in which case they are to be governed by Clauses 13, 14, 15, 21, and 22 of these Regulations.

4. Four berths in the Upper Reach will be kept for the use of men-of-war.

5. Vessels are to moor in accordance with the orders received from the Harbour Master, and not to shift their berths or remove from the anchorage without a special permit, except when outward bound and after having obtained their clearance papers.

6. Applications for berths or for permission to shift must be made at the Harbour Master's Office at the Custom-house by the Shipmaster, the First Officer, or Pilot in charge, when the necessary instructions concerning the berth will be given.

7. Vessels are required to exhibit lights as laid down in the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.

8. No vessels except men-of-war may use swinging booms. The swinging booms of men-of-war shall be rigged in from sunset until sunrise.

9. Vessels are required to keep their chains clear, especially towards the full and change of the moon, and not to have lines out to buoys, wharves, or other vessels any longer than necessary when shifting their berths.