1.—What vessels pay Tonnage Dues.—With the exception of ships-of-war, pilot-boats and yachts, all other v forth, or subject to the exceptions provided for in these regulation:
2.—Tonnage Dues, when due.—Tonnage dues are duo on the expiration of furtyeight hours after arrival or on brool landing or shipping cargo, bullion excepted or landing shipping twenty or more passengers, which ever first happens.
—Tonnage Dues are payable at the rate of 3.—onnage Dues at what rates payable four maco per ton by vessels of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden, and one mace per ton by vessels of one hundred and fifty tons or under.
4.—Four-Month Certificates.—Tounage Dues having been paid, a Four Months' Certificate will be issued on clearance, from which date the vessel will be exempt from tonnage dues for a period of four calendar months on exhibiting her cor ficate. Subsequent certificates are to be dated from the date of the first clearance following the expiration of the preceding gortificate, ment of Tonnage ues.—In addition to ships of war, yachts and pilot boats, the following classes of vessels are specially exempted from payment of Tonnage Dues provided the conditions affecting the exempt tion are duly observed (a.)—Bonts employed in the conveyance of passengers, baggage, letters, articles of provision or other articles not subject to duty in or between the Treaty Ports (0.)—Merchant vessels which depart before the expiration of 48 hours from arrival, and which neither work cargo—personal baggage goldend silver bullion, and foreign coins excepted,—nor carry passengers aggregating inwards and outwards twenty or more.
(c.)—Vessels which are reported to the Customs as having entered port specially for shelter or repairs (including steamers which en route for another port are forced to enter to coal) and which, occupying berths assigned them by the Custom: observing Port Rules and Customs Regul: tions and working neither cargo nor passengers depart as they arrived either in ballast or carrying away their ori cargo. (N. B. Ifin order to effect repairs, cargo. must necessarily be temporarily landed, special permission can be obtained on application, but such cargo must be replaced and taken away by the same vessel when departing.)
any such vessels hold Four Months' Cortificatesthey will be treated us follows:
(a.)—TIt the vessel enters for shelter the jeato is extended the number of days vessel apends in port.
ud 8 without working cargo or pas-@.)—IE the vessel arrives for repairs jongers: or if arrived for repairs, the vessel subsequently works cargo and passengers or if, arrived for ordinary trading purposes the vessel remains in port for repah the days actually spent in port in effecting the repairs are added to the Four 'Months' certificate, (c.)—Should i appear that a vessel takes advantage of th concessions respecting shelter and repairs simply to evade or defer payment of the tonnage dues, a fine will be levied amounting to double the sum sought to be evaded or deferred (d.)—IE the vessel is one which does not enter for shelter or repairs, but departs without working within 48 hours, and i the Four Months' Certificate expires whil n port, the vessel will be free to depart without further payment of Tonnage Dues and her next Four Months' Certificate will dated from the first subsequent clearance necessitating payment of Tounnge Dues.
)—IE the Four Months' Certificate has not expired, its duration is not in any way affected by this exemption possessing a Four Months' vessel although not working cargo will be required to pay Tonnage Dues if she brings in or takes away passengers aggroyating twenty or mor:
For the purposes of this rule inward and outward manifests must contain full details respecting bullion, foreign coins, and passengers, thu:
Bullion, Silver———Cases, Value——Gold 3s Foreign coins—Passengers, C: (numbers.)
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.