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Kanagawa Ken Ordinance No. 45 of 1903 (issued June 26). 



Finders of a dead rat or capturers of a live rat shall report and deliver the same within 

 twelve hours to the police, mayor, medical inspector or officer, antiplague committee, 

 or officer in charge of the Hygiene Guild. 



Violation of the foregoing shall be punishable either by a fine or detention in jail. 



Kanagawa Ken Ordinance No. 63 of 1907 (issued June 8). 



Persons who plan or are engaged in the importation of rats from without into the 

 city of Yokohama, or persons who plan to breed rats in the said city, shall be punished 

 by detention in jail or by a fine. 



Extract from Kanagawa Ken Ordinance No. 14 of 1907, relating to supervision over stor- 

 age and warehouses (issued March 6). 



ARTICLE 1. The term "storage and warehouses," hereinafter mentioned, shall mean 

 and include any godown, storage or storehouses, or warehouses, used by storage or 

 warehouse companies, individuals, forwarding agents or express companies, whole- 

 sale dealers, works and factories, wherein cotton, cereals, or grains, flour, peanuts, 

 beancake, and other pressed oil cakes, cocoons, feathers, leather, old or waste cotton, 

 old straw, bags, etc., are stored and kept. 



ART. 8, sec. 1. Owners of a storage or warehouse shall exercise at least four times a 

 year a rigid and thorough method of house cleaning and rat destruction in the storage 

 or warehouse. The date and time of cleaning shall be reported to the police, to whose 

 satisfaction and approval the cleaning must be carried out. 



ART. 8, sec. 2. Owners of a storage or warehouse shall furnish and always keep at 

 each doorway a suitable rat trap, and shall always endeavor to exterminate rats or 

 pursue such method of extermination as may be directed by the police. 



In forwarding the above ordinances, Vice-Consul Babbit stated that 

 vessels engaged in foreign trade, when deemed advisable by the harbor 

 authorities, are required to endeavor to exterminate the rats on 

 board by sulphur fumigation or other effective methods, as are also 

 coastwise vessels. 



To encourage the extermination of rats, the mayor of Yokohama 

 was authorized by the city council to pay bounties, the rate being 3 

 sen (1J cents) each. The vice-consul states that in addition to this 

 purchase price a ticket is given for a lottery, and for each 60,000 

 rats 156 prizes, amounting to a total of 1,000 yens are given by the 

 city. 



In a table giving the number of rats purchased and sent to the 

 hygiene bureau for bacteriological examination, it is seen that for 

 the year ending December 31, 1908, 447,981 were received. 



In Nagasaki the municipal council passed an ordinance January 6, 

 1906, as follows: 



1. Rats to be purchased are of two kinds house and field rats and they must be 

 either caught or found dead within this city. 



2. A bounty of 3 sen (1 cents) shall be paid for each rat with a ticket, to be cashed on 

 presentation. 



3. Such tickets, to be cashed, must be presented at the city office within thirty days 

 from the date of issue. 



