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thority of either of the appointed pilots, attempt to pilot any vessel into or out of this port, 

 shall he liahle to a fine equal to the amount of the estahlished rate of pilotage. 



Sec. 9. It shall he unlawful for any commander of a vessel to discharge any of his crew in 

 this port without permission from the chief magistrate and council ; and no commander of 

 a vessel shall leave any sick or helpless man or men upon the island, unless he procure a house 

 for him or them, and make suitahle arrangements for his or their suhsistence and comfort du- 

 ring his or their illness. 



Sec. 10. Any person or persons not owning land U£>on this island, who may hereafter enter 

 into partnership or trade with a resident and landholder, or who shall purchase an undivided 

 interest in the land, if a resident, must enter into written articles of agreement, and ohtain a 

 written title to the undivided interest he may purchase in lands, stock, &c. ; and in the event 

 of dissolution of partnership or death of either party, partition of the property shall he made 

 hy the chief magistrate and council, whose duty it shall he to secure and take charge of the 

 property and effects of any deceased person, for the benefit of his friends. 



Sec. 11. Any person or persons who shall be guilty of trespass or waste upon the lands of 

 any of the inhabitants shall be fined in a sum equal to the value of the damage or waste he or 

 they may commit thereon, upon a proper adjudication thereof by the chief magistrate and 

 council. 



Sec. 12. The chief magistrate and council may, when they deem it necessary, call a conven- 

 tion of the people to propose new, and make amendments to the foregoing, rules and regulations. 



Sec. 13. Any and all person or persons who shall hereafter emigrate to or settle in this col- 

 ony shall be subject and held amenable to the foregoing rules and regulations. 



All the above articles of government having been prepared, concurred in, and adopted by us 

 in convention assembled, at the house of Nathaniel Savory, in Port Lloyd, Peel island, on the 



day of , A. D. — , we solemnly pledge ourselves to each other to support and carry 



out the same. 



In testimony whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names the day and year aforesaid. 

 (Signed by) NATHANIEL SAVOEY, 



And all the other residents of the island. 



Report of Lieutenant Batch to Commander Kelly, respecting the Bonin Islands. 



U. S. Ship Plymouth, 



At Sea, December 6, 1853. 



Sir : In obedience to your order of October 21st, I proceeded on the 22d with the launch and 

 first cutter, the latter in charge of Lieutenant Cooper, to the Bailey group. 



With the exception of Newport, on the west side of Hillsborough, formerly known as Fisher's 

 island, and a small cove just to the northward of it, there is no place on the shores of any of the 

 islands suitable for a coal depot ; nor can Newport or the cove be recommended as places 

 suited for such a purpose; they are both open from S.W. to N.W., the holding ground is not 

 good, being sand and rocks. Vessels could, however, always get to sea on the approach of a 

 gale, as there are two safe passages, and very plain. 



Newport affords greater advantages for a depot than the cove ; it would be necessary to cut 

 away the bank where the sheds are to be placed, and extend a jettee out some seventy-five feet ; 



