Japan by the Japanese/Appendix J

J.—The Shipbuilding Encouragement Law.

(Enacted March, 1896.)

Article I.—Japanese subjects, or mercantile companies of which the members or shareholders are exclusively Japanese subjects, engaging in the construction of ships at dockyards possessing the qualifications to be determined by the Minister of State for Communications, shall be entitled, in consideration of the ships so built, to the grant of shipbuilding encouragement bounty in accordance with the provisions of this law.

Article II.—Ships entitled to the bounty according to this law must be of iron or steel, with a gross tonnage of not less than 700 tons, and constructed under official supervision in accordance with the Shipbuilding Regulations to be determined by the Minister of State for Communications.

Article III.—The shipbuilding encouragement bounty shall be granted at the rate of 12 yen per ton gross in case of vessels of not less than 700 but less than 1,000 tons gross, and 20 yen per ton gross in case of and above 1,000 tons gross.

Where the engines are also manufactured, an additional bounty of 5 yen per indicated horse-power shall be granted.

The above-mentioned additional bounty shall also be granted in case the engines are manufactured at other works within Japanese dominions, provided the permission of the Minister of State for Communications shall have been first obtained.

Article IV.—In the construction of the hull and engines of ships for which the bounty is to be granted no foreign-made material should be employed, except in accordance with the regulations to be determined by the Minister of State for Communications.

Article V.—Anybody who has obtained shipbuilding encouragement bounty by fraud shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for not less than one year and not more than five years, with a fine of not less than 200 yen and not more than 1,000 yen. He shall further be required to refund the amount of the bounty fraudulently obtained.

Anybody who, while resolved to commit the offence mentioned in the preceding clause, has not yet consummated the act, shall be dealt with according to the provisions of the Criminal Code relating to unconsummated infractions of law.

Article VI.—The provisions of the Criminal Code relating to the concurrence of several offences by the same person shall not be applied to the infraction of the provisions of this law.

Article VII.—The punitive provisions of the two preceding articles shall apply, in case of mercantile companies, to the managing member or director responsible for the respective acts.

Article VIII.—This law shall be in force during a period of fifteen years from the 1st day of October, the 29th year of Meiji (1896).

Numbers, gross tonnage, and indicated horse-power of vessels for which the bounty has been granted in each fiscal year, according to the terms of the Law for the Encouragement of Shipbuilding, since the enforcement of the same law, are as follows:

Fiscal Year.		Where Built.	Number of Vessels.	Gross Tonnage.	Indicated Horse- power.	Bounty.
						Yen.
30th (1897)		Kawasaki Dockyard	01	00,727	00,877	0,013,109
31st (1898)	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Mitsu Bishi Dockyard	02	07,691	04,193	0,174,785
31st (1898)		Kawasaki Dockyard	01	01,694	01,042	0,039,090
32nd (1899)		Mitsu Bishi Dockyard	02	08,026	05,452	0,187,780
33rd (1900)	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Kawasaki Dockyard	02	03,822	04,084	0,096,860
33rd (1900)		Mitsu Bishi Dockyard	01	02,243	02,242	0,056,070
34th (1901)	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Kawasaki Dockyard	03	02,950	03,105	0,068,645
		Mitsu Bishi Dockyard	04	16,043	13,702	0,383,674
		Osaka Ironworks	02	03,644	03,411	0,089,935
		Tokyo Ishikawajima Dockyard	01	01,600	01,368	0,038,840
35th (1902)		Mitsu Bishi Dockyard	02	05,569	04,645	0,134,605

Total	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Kawasaki Dockyard	07	09,193	09,108	0,217,704
		Mitsu Bishi Dockyard	11	39,572	30,234	0,936,914
		Osaka Ironworks	02	03,644	03,411	0,089,935
		Tokyo Ishikawajima Dockyard	01	01,600	01,368	0,038,840

Grand Total		—	21	54,009	44,121	1,283,393