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authorized at their discretion to grant a temporary pass for tho present voyago, until a regular
register can be procured from you or me.
7. 'When circumstances require that any of tho cruising vessels should loavo hor station
the Commander will take an early opportunity on his return, of landing at each of tho ports, or
sending on shore to ascertain, what vessels may lmvo sailed or arrived during his absence, and
in tho ovent of any having arrived without registers, ho will warn tho Shaik of the danger of
his infraction of tho treaty and report tho occurrence to you or mo, aftor making particular
enquiry as to the circumstance of the caso of each vessel.
8. Tho present registers to bo hold good until the new registers shall havq been issued
but no longer, excepting in tho caso of any vosscls returning from trading voyages, on which
thoy hud previously sailod under their former passes, the rogisters will bo valid for one year
only, and will bo renewed annually when tho old register must bo given up.
9. It is hoped that whon the registers shall once havo been issued as hero recommended-
no difficulties will occur in renewing them, and that tho occasional inspection of the ports will
cnablo ovory officer to givn a pretty correct account at auy time of all the boats belonging to
each of tho ports under his particular charge.
10. I am uot yet prepared to furnish you with any more particular instructions on other
points, than tboso which have boon issued to you in the Marine Department but J am parti­
cularly directed by Government-to warn you against making any attack on Chiefs not piratical
under the operation of the 9th paragraph of the Superintendent's last iii6tiuctiqns, aud you
will therefore be careful to avoid committing hostilities in any case short of piracy.
11. Arrangements will, if possible, bo made for providing a naiivo agent at some of the
principal ports, who will give you every information, assi-t in procuring occasional supplies,
and aho act as interpreter when required, in the meantime the officer may be authorized to
employ for the time 6uch persons as they may require to enable them to make out the necessary
list of boats, tho expense of which will be defrayed on their preferring a contingent bill
through you.
Instructions to the Comtnanders of Cruisers stationed off the Piratical Ports.
You will in the cruiser uuder your command take under your inspection and watch the
ports named in tho margin.
You will apprieo the Shaiks of these ports that it is necessary they should renew the
registers of all boats excepting those employed for the purpose of fishing ; and you should
either land yourself or seud an officer on shore, and require of the Shaik to furnish you with a
list of all boats belonging to his ports, a copy of which should be kept on board and one seut
to me.
The Shaiks having furnished their list and an English description < f each boat from
actual inspection written on it he (the Shaik) should then furnish separato registers in
Arabic under his own seal for such vessels as he may require to send to sea for the yoar which
you will compare aud fill up and sign ; but these registers are not to bo valid until counter­
signed either by the Resident in the Gulph, or the Souior Marino officer, and must therefore
be retained until my next visit to the coast; or until you are apprised that 1 am to be fouud
in Magoo Bay; in the latter case tho Shaik must send a boat ovtr with the registers for
countoi signature.
In the event of any urgent case in which a chief may desire to send a boat to sea for
purposes evidently pacific, and whore delay would be seriously inconvenient, you are
authorized to grant a register or pass fur the particular voyage, which must be expressly
stated in the register, and you are also at liberty to refuse a register to any boat that may
appear to you suspiciuus, or likely to be improperly employed and to take the earliest oppor­
tunity of informing me of it.
When circumstances require that you quit your station either by stress of weather or
for supplies, you are to take the earlie-t opportunity of ascertaining what boats have put to
6ca during your absenco and require from the Shaik an account of all such, and should it appear
to you that any boats have left the port for improper purposes, you are to warn the Shaik of
the danger of his infraction of tbo treaty, and to report the occurrence to me or to the
Resident in the Gulph should the opportunity be more conveoient.
Tho present registers to be held good until the new register shall have been issued but
no longer excepting in the case of any vessels returning from a trading voyage, on which
they had previously sailed under their former passes.
Tho registers will be valid fur one year only and will bo renewed annually wheD the old
registers must be given up.
On all occasions of examining vessels at sea delay should be avoided, and where suspicion
attaches the crews should bo treated with mildness and moderation unless by violence on their
part they induce severity on yours, aud should you detain any boat on tho grounds of her
being piratically employed, immediate notice of the caso with all its attendant oircumstances
should be commuuicated to me for the information of tbo Resident in tho Gulph, and you are
required to attend to any instructions you may receive from him.
On your visits to tho Chiefs parties to the treaty made by Sir William Grant Keir you
are to preserve the preseut friendly footing and to treat them with the greatest degree of