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II. All persons living upon charity, anil beggars, shall Ik? excluded. 



III. Nobody shall presume with any ship or boat to come within the 

 palisades of Dezima. Nobody shall presume with any ship or boat to pass 

 under the bridge of Dezima. 



IV. No Hollander shall be permitted to come out but for weighty 

 reasons. 



All the above-mentioned orders shall be punctually obeyed. 

 The following arc the orders to be observed during the Dutch sale at 

 Dezima : — 



I. No Dutchman shall be permitted to go out without leave. 



II. NolK>dy shall be suffered to come into the island before the sale 

 begins, but the ordinary officers and servants. 



III. No goods whatever shall be carried out of the island before the 

 tafe begins. No tent, nor any Spanish wines, shall be sent out of the island 

 without special licence. 



IV. No Japanese arms, nor the pictures, or representations, or puppet 

 figures of any military people, shall be brought to Dezima. Pursuant to 

 our often repeated strict commands, no goods whatever shall be sold pri- 

 vately to the Dutch ; and no goods shall be bought of them in the same 

 private way. 



V. When the time for the departure of the Dutch ships draws near, 

 notice shall be given to the Magistrates and the College of Interpreters, of 

 what goods have been sold to the Dutch, together with a written list of the 

 same, that so tiie sums agreed on, be paid in time, and all trouble and incon- 

 venience avoided on the last days of their stay in the harbour. 



VI. The Dutch and Portuguese interpreters who frequent the island, 

 and are licensed for so doing, shall not plot, nor privately converse to- 

 gether. 



VII. Nobody shall come to Dezima without special leave, but the 

 Bugjo and the officers of the island. 



All the articles aforesaid every body is commanded duly and strictly 

 to observe. 



Prohibited Goods. — The following is a lift of prohibited goods, none 

 of which the Dutch are suffered to buy, or to export from the country. 

 The Emperor s coat of arms. 



All prints, pictures, goods, or stuffs, bearing the same. 

 Warlike instruments. 



Pictures and representations, printed or others, of soldiers and military 

 people. 



