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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-PROHIBITED CONTENTS.
30.—Letters, arms, ammunition, precious metals, whether in form of specie or bullion, tobacco.
31.-Letters: tobacco seeds; dead animals and insects unless thoroughly dried; fruits and vegetables liable to early decomposi- tion.
32.-Hashish, locust eggs, salt (other than table or rock salt); silver and copper coins and pre-Victorian gold coins.
33.-Same as France. Arms and am- munition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
34.-Letters, arms and ammunition, except with consent of the Government.
35.--Letters; imitations of money, notes, stamps, or bills; potatoes from North America Entrails of ruminants or pigs unless entirely dried in the air, or salte·1, horns or hoofs unless entirely dried in the air, wools riused or only back washed, hay, straw, manure, milk, margarine, oleo- margarine, margarine, cheese and butter are subject to restrictions required by the law.
36.-Letters, daggers, sword-sticks, sword-umbrellas, percussion
percussion caps and
fire-arms.
37.-Letters, opium, arms, salt, coffee, plants and seeds.
38.-Letters; arins and ammunition, sugar-cane brandy or its combinations; articles of food containing ingredients injurious to health; salt, foreign coins, implements for coining.
39.-Letters; materials for the composi- tions of gunpowder, salt, poisons (unless addressed to chemists or druggists), foreign silver and copper coins, books of the Mussulman religion, hashish and natron, articles likely to import the plague, viz.:- Wearing apparel, worn clothing, bedding that has been used, rags, and waste stuff, not excepting hydraulic pressed rags, used socks, carpets and worn embroideries, leather, untanned and fresh skins, fresh animal matter, hoofs of all kinds, horse hair, bristle, raw wool and human hair. The tobacco grown in certain countries is not admissible int Egypt; the country of origin should be stated on the declaration form. The importation of arms is subject to special restrictions.
40.-Letters, rags, shoddy and disused clothing.
41.—Letters, secret and forbidden arms, a munition, game out of season (grouse not included), fresh meat (except fillets and sirloins of beef), birds of various kinds, birds snared or netted, foreign bronze coin, tobacco (unless addressed to the "Regie" or in limited quantities for the personal use of the addressee), essence
of tobacco, playing cards, shrubs, young trees (unless accompaniedy phylloxera certificate), vines, all parts of the vine, cuttings with or without roots, grapes, &c,, unless the consent of the Government is previously obtained. Medicine is ac- cepted at the sender's risk, and the pre- scription must be copied upon the Customs Declaration Form. Articles of gold and silver and other precious articles can only be sent in insured parcels, and gold and silver jewellery not of the French legal standard will be broken up before being returned to the senders.
42.-Same as France, except that tobacco is admitted without restriction.
43.—Same as France, except that tobacco is admitted.
44. Same as France. Arms and am- munition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
45. Same as France, with the addition of opium and silver coin. Medicine, Havana tobacco and playing cards are, however, admissible.
46.- Same as France. Letters,
Letters, coin, articles of gold or silver and other pre- cious articles.
47.-Guadeloupe; same as France, except that tobacco is admitted. Martinique: letters.
48.-Letters, plants, cuttings and leaves of vines from countries where phylloxera exists unless accompanied by a certificate.
49.-Letters, roots, mushroom spawn, parts of the vine (except grapes), plants or fresh fruit of Japanese or American origin (except American water plants), potatoes of American origin, loose playing cards, and incomplete packs of cards, salt meat in pieces weighing less than 4 kilos (8 lb. 13 oz.) meat (except venison or flesh of water animals or birds, if in sound condition), whether fresh, frozen, cured, pickled, prepared with chemical preserv- atives or colouring matter, or in sealed cases, sausages, and mixtures of minced meat. Swine's flesh of American origin in any form (unless accompanied by a proper sanitary certificate), saccharine, and similar products and preparations containing them.
50.-Arms, parts of firearms, ammuni- tion, utensils of war, naval or military stores, unless special permission has been obtained; essences of gin, rum, brandy and whisky.
51.- Firearms, ammunition, machines for making or filling cartridges.
52.—Letters, samples declared to be of no value, copper and bronze money; fresh no value, colinen meat; worn linen and used bedding un- less washed, old clothes, old shoes, rags, old paper, playing cards, cigarette papers, salt and other articles which fall within
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