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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE

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) Mitsu Bishi Dockyard 02 07,691 04,193 0,174,785
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) Kawasaki Dockyard 02 03,822 04,084 0,096,860
Mitsu Bishi Dockyard 01 02,243 02,242 0,056,070
34th (1901) 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 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