concerned.
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3. All vessels must in port anchor at places assigned by the customs of the port
4. Neither cargo nor passengers may be landed or shipped before permission hae been given by the customs. Cargo lauded or shipped without such permission is liable to confiscation.
5. Manifests as well as customs covers must be presented to the customs on arrival. A special manifest must be handed in to the Lahasusu customs barrier by all vessels entering from or leaving for the Amour. It must specify all cargo on board and give place of shipment and intended destination of all goods inwards and outwards.
6. Manifests must contain a true and full account of all cargo on board, including duty-free goods, giving marks, numbers, and contents, and must be signed by the master, who will be held responsible for their correctness.
7. Shut-out goods must be presented immediately for re-examination, otherwise they will not be recognised as such.
8. Vessels must produce their papers for inspection when called upon by any customs or inland barrier official boarding them at the ports or en route.
9. Customs employés may be put on board of vessels to search them, or to accompany them for the purpose of surveillance.
10. The customs are at liberty to seal the hatches of vessels; such seals must not be broken until the vessel reaches a port where she has to work cargo, and until the necessary permission has been obtained. Unauthorised breaking of seals or opening of hatches will entail liability to a fine not exceeding 500 taels.
11. For working cargo or passengers on Sundays or holidays as well as on week days out of the regular working hours--6 A.M. to 6 P.M.-special permit fees must be paid.
12. Masters of vessels are expected to report to the customs any changes in the channel, accidents to shipping, loss of guiding marks, wrecks, and other noteworthy
events.
13. Trade in the following articles, viz., gunpowder and other explosives, shot, cannon, fowling pieces, rifles, muskets, pistols, saltpetre, sulphur, spelter, and all other munitions and implements of war, and salt is prohibited; arms found on board not covered by certificate showing them to be for self-defence or ship's use will be confiscated. The export abroad of rice, husked and unhusked, and Chinese copper cash and coins is also prohibited. The importation of foreign copper coin blanks, copper coins, and copper cash is likewise forbidden.
14. Infraction of customs rules and regulations will render the vessel liable to the infliction of the penalties in force at treaty ports. A repetition of an offence renders the vessel liable to be prohibited from plying on the Sungari.
The above regulations are to be considered as provisional and experimental for one year, and are subject to additions and modifications when and if necessary.
Special harbour and sanitary regulations governing the issue of special permits, arms certificates, &c., will be issued later.
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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 23.)
(No. 237.) Sir,
Peking, July 5, 1909. WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of Macao, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the acting consul-general at Canton, containing some notes upon the condition of affairs in the Portuguese colony.
Mr. Fox's observations, made as the result of a recent visit to Macao, are not without interest, and confirm what is already well known, that the administration of the colony is as bad as it can be, and that the place itself is little more than a resort for gamblers and the viciously inclined.
With the great falling off in the revenue derived from opium and gambling establishments, hitherto its main sources of support, it is hard to see how Macan is to continue to pay its way, and it is doubtless the knowledge of this fact which encourages the Cantonese in the efforts which they are now openly making to recover possession of the place.
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I have, &c.
J. N. JORDAN.
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Acting Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.
(No. 67. Confidential.)
Sir,
Canton, June 17, 1909. I HAVE the honour to transmit for your perusal a few notes on affairs at Macao, gathered during a recent brief visit to that place.
Mr. Kao Erh Chien, the Chinese delimitation commissioner, has been in Canton for over a month, awaiting the arrival of his Portuguese colleague, who is due in Hong Kong by the P. and O. steam-ship" Moldavia," on the 25th instant.
Apartments have been taken by the Chinese commissioner in Glenealy Buildings, formerly in occupation of the German consulate, and the negotiations will, as at present arranged, take place in Hong Kong.
Mr. Kao paid an unofficial visit to Macao in a Chinese gun-boat on the 2nd of this month. He called on the governor, but left, for some unexplained reason, before the latter could return his call.
I exchanged visits with Mr. Kao soon after my return from Japan on the 17th May last, and he has since paid me several private calls.
His manner on these occasions has been so markedly friendly that I have formed the impression that he desires my assistance, probably in connection with the forthcoming negotiations. However, beyond asking for an introduction to the governor of Hong Kong, he has so far made no definite proposals.
He informed me at our last interview that General Machado's reported visit to London prior to his departure from China, coupled with the fact that the commission was to sit in Hong Kong, had given rise to rumours that the British Government were to take part in the negotiations, and he mentioned that the Cantonese took it for granted that our intervention implied an intention of supporting the Portuguese claims.
1 informed Mr. Kao that I had no reason to suppose that the British Government would take any active part in the delimitation negotiations, unless at the express request of both parties; but that His Majesty's Government would doubtless render whatever assistance they could to the commission, with a view to an amicable and satisfactory settlement of the questions in dispute.
Mr. Kao is naturally reticent as to his own views on the subject, but I gather that he, in common with the Viceroy and all the most influential officials and gentry in Canton,
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