CHINA; navigation and ports.

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King's Regulations, International Regulations, Rules, Orders, Notifications and Rules of Court. Issued under the China Orders in Council, 1904 to 1919, During the Year 1919. First edition, the majority of the 31 notices concerning pilotage, harbours, and port sanitation. Accompanying the text are two anchorage plans and the full bilingual text of the 1918 Ningbo harbour regulations, which were formally propagated in 1919.The ports and harbours covered include Shanghai, Wenzhou, Chefoo, Tianjin, Hankou, Fuzhou, Amoy, Swatow, Santuao, and Canton. While some notices merely repeal or tweak existing orders, 14 provide substantial new directions for navigators and shipping, often extending across multiple pages. This and one other copy were sometime deaccessioned from the Foreign Office Library. The library's retained copy, held in the FCDO Historical Collection at King's College London, is the only other example we have traced.

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