Suascrat, December 28th, 1863. {HE undersigned is instructed by his Excellency Honorable J. Ross Browxe, Minister of the United States at Peking, to notify that be has assented to the amended Regulations for the Pilotage Service in China, which were published by the [napector General of Customs, under date of October 30th last.
They will be of binding force and effect on citizens United States on and after the lst day of Feby., GEO. F. SEWARD, Consul General.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.