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warehouse for the port of Shanghae, do hereby agree and bind themselves to the execution and fulfilment of the terms and conditions set forth as follows:--
1. That the said warehouse shall be used exclusively for the storage of foreign goods in bond, and that neither native goods nor unbonded foreign goods shall at any time be placed therein.
2. That no goods shall at any time be placed in the said warehouse without the previous production to the Proprietors' warehouse keeper of a customs bonding permit in respect of the same.
3. That no goods, while in the said warehouse, shall be opened or any sample taken therefrom without the previous production to the said warehouse keeper of a customs sample permit in respect of the same.
4. That no goods shall be removed from the said warehouse without the previous production to the said warehouse keeper of a customs release permit in respect of the same.
5. That in every case of infraction of either of the last two preceding Articles the Proprietors shall on demand pay to the Commissioner or Acting Commissioner of the said Customs for the time being at Shanghae a fine equal in amount to five times the duty leviable upon the goods in respect of which such infraction shall have taken place.
6. That the Proprietors shall at all times keep in connection with the said warehouse separate books in such form as shall from time to time be prescribed or approved by the said Customs authorities, in which said books shall be recorded particulars of all goods which shall enter or leave the said warehouse, and of the opening of packages or the taking of other measures for the sampling of any goods stored in the said warehouse.
7. That the officers of the said Customs, whether permanently stationed at the said warehouse or proceeding thither for the purpose of inspection, shall at all times have access to and be at liberty to examine without hindrance on the part of the Proprietors all or any goods stored in the said warehouse, and all or any books or papers relating or which ought to relate to any goods stored or which have been or which ought to be stored in the said warehouse.
8. That on the arrival at the said warehouse of any goods for which the importer has obtained a bonding permit, the said goods shall, before being stored, be checked by the said warehouse keeper in the presence of a Customs officer, and at the same time shall be entered in the proper warehouse book, and the said bonding permit shall then be receipted and handed to the Customs officer to be filed.
9. On the presentation by or on behalf of an importer of a sample permit with a view to the taking of a sample or samples, the said warehouse keeper shall inform the proper Customs officer and both shall be present when the package or packages is or are opened and the sample or samples extracted, and on the package or packages being reclosed, the said warehouse keeper shall make a full entry of the transaction in a book kept for that purpose, and shall then hand the sample permit to the Customs officer to be filed.
10. On the presentation by or on behalf of an importer of a release permit for goods to be disposed of in Shanghae or re-exported, the said warehouse keeper shall inform the proper Customs officer and both shall personally see to the release of the goods, and the said warehouse keeper shall at the same time enter the particulars of the transaction in the book prescribed for the purpose as the case may be, and shall then hand the release permit to the Customs officer to be filed.
11. That if, at the expiration of one year from the date of the issue of the Customs permit to enter in bond any goods, the same goods shall not have been removed from the said warehouse, the Proprietors shall forthwith pay the import duty payable in respect of the said goods, and shall forthwith remove the said goods elsewhere.
12. That the charges to be made by the Proprietors for or in respect of the storage of goods and the insurance and safe custody of the same shall be treated as private matters to be arranged between the Proprietors and their customers, but the Customs authorities shall be kept informed of all Rules and Regulations made by the Proprietors in respect of all or any of the said matters.
13. That the Proprietors shall observe all Regulations from time to time made by the Customs authorities in substitution for or in addition to the provisions hereinbefore contained.
14. That if any act or thing shall be done or omitted by the Proprietors or by any of their employés in contravention of any of the stipulations hereinbefore contained (otherwise than in Articles 3 and 4 hereof), the Proprietors shall forthwith, upon demand, pay to the Commissioner or Acting Commissioner at Shanghae of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs for the time being the sum of 500 Haikwan taels by way of damages.
15. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioner or Acting Commissioner for the time being at any time to withdraw or suspend the authority given to the Proprietors to use the said warehouse as a bonded warehouse without assigning any reason for so doing, but it shall not be lawful for the Proprietors to withdraw the said warehouse from use as a bonded warehouse without the previous consent of the said Commissioner or Acting Commissioner.
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