HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE—Prohibited ContentS
hypodermic injection, including hypoder- mic needles. Drugs should be fully described in the Customs Declaration; otherwise they are liable to be detained for examination.
99.-Letters; manufactured gold and silver not of a certain degree of fineness; some pharmaeutical products and arsenic, unless addressed to a State Pharmacy or to specially authorised persons; articles made abroad which bear the name of a place, property, manufactory or tradesman in Sweden, or any marking in Swedish to explain the nature of the goods must bear the word "Import" or the name and domi- cile of the foreign manufacturer, applied conspicuously and indelibly. Goods which do not comply with this regulation are confiscated.
100.--Letters, newspapers and post cards intended for distribution; Italian, 1 and 2 franc pieces, glassware with Swiss Federal or Cantonal gauge marks; salt, unless with the permission of Cantonal authorities; alcohol, unless addressed to Federal authority, and other spirits, unless gross weight and percentage of alcohol are shown on the Customs Declaration; earth compost, grapes addressed to places in the Canton Valais, grapes addressed to other parts of Switzerland (unless accompanied by a special permit from the Federal De- partment of Agriculture); vines and parts thereof, other plants and bulbs (unless ac- companied by a phylloxera certificate and special permit from the Federal Depart- ment of Agriculture); birds of any kind, meat prepared with colouring or preserva- tive matter; fresh sausages and similar mixtures, and all fresh meat except sirloins of beef, ox-tongues, and sweet- breads. Sausages made of dried meat must be made of meat only, without the addition of any other substance; preserved meat, in sealed receptacles, must be mark- ed with the description of the contents and the name or trade mark of the manu- facturer or vendor. All parcels containing meat must be accompanied by a certificate of origin and inspection of approved form. No frozen meat can be imported without previous permission. Poultry, fish or ganie (including hares and rabbits) can only be sent whole.
100a. Live animals, coins and bullion; Indecent, profane and libellous documents. 101.-Letters, parts of articles liable to duty in Trinidad. rum, all other spirits except bona-fide samples and perfumed or medicinal spirits, ganja, bhang, cannabis indica, opium
opium and
and tobacco, or any preparation thereof.
101a. Same as Portugal.
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102.-Letters, coin, arms and ammuni- tion of war, nitrate of soda, saltpetre, sulphur, salt, tobacco. plants, parts of the vine, fresh vegetables, kif, chira, hashish and opium, etc.
02a-Same as Trinidad.
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103.-Letters, tobacco by the Constantza route in any form; by other routes except cigars, chewing tobacco, and snuff; articles of celluloid except in zinc boxes; foreign silver coin; rifles and rifle ammunition of army pattern; empty cartridges except for sporting rifles; revolvers, of which the bar- rels exceed 15 centimetres (ncarly 6 in.) in length; patent medicines, hashish; post- cards of private manufacture, bearing the heading "Postes Imperiales Ottomanes' skins (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate); raw cotton in any form or cut- ton cake originating in the United States of America, and the packing material, etc., with which it has been in contact, plai ts, parts of plants and flowers are subject to special restrictions and can be sent by Parcel Post only at the sender's risk. Explosives, inflammable or dangerous articles, paper money, bonds, shares, etc. Printed matter of indecent nature or pertaining to lotteries.
103a.--Same as Tripoli.
104.-Letters, foreign reprints of British copyright works. Acetylene, Saccharine, Base coins. Foreign coin other than gold or silver, tobacco except for personal use, and coin or bullion over £5 in value or 8 ozs. in weight.
104a.-Same as Turkey.
104.-Letters, firearms and ammunition. 105.-Same as vid London.
106. In addition to those articles which are specified in Postal Guide, Rules 151 and 154, as excluded from transmission by Foreign and Colonial Post, the undermen- tioned articles are prohibited from importation into the United States :- Letters, eatables, ox-hides, prison-made wares, wines, spirits, cigars and cigarettes unless sent in quantities numbering at least 3,000 in a single package (see Observations); wines and spirits may he sent in bottles, but Customs duty will be charged as if each parcel contained not less than 12 bottles. Opium containing less than 9 per cent. of morphine, casks of wines and spirits containing less than 14 gallons. Cotton line and all forms of un- manufactured cotton, poisonous, explosive and fatty substances, liquids, seeds, con- fections and pastes, live or dead animals, fruits and vegetables; lottery tickets, plants, feathers and plumage of all kinds.
107.-Letters, liquids or semi-liquids, orchilla or litmus and its derivatives, plants or living parts of plants, grapes,