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as junks under sail and will be required to conform to the rules governing junk traffic, and the procedure prescribed in Article V of this Agreement.
ARTICLE VII.
Lighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the Liang Kuang Provinces may have their hatches sealed by the Chinese Maritime Customs prior to departure and such vessels may then proceed direct to their destination. The Chinese Maritime Customs reserve the right to require the launch to call at a Customs station en route for search.
ARTICLE VIII.
Foreign goods carried by junks or launches registered as in Articles V and VI clearing from Hongkong, Victoria Harbour, for non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province may acquit themselves of import and transit duties before departure and may be granted transit passes. Report for Customs purposes must be made at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Hongkong Government. Junks and launches carrying transit pass cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at the Customs stations specified on the pass,
ARTICLE IX.
Goods passing through the Colony under Customs documents from one treaty port in China to another shall maintain their original status and shall receive the benefit of their original Customs documents at the port of destination, subject to the following conditions:-
(a) The Customs Authorities shall be given full facilities for supervising goods in transit without landing or transhipment during such period as such goods remain within the waters of the Colony.
(b) Goods landed pending transmission by sea or by railway and goods brought by railway for transmission by sea shall be placed in such bonded warehouses as may be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Customs Authorities. Full facilities to supervise goods in such warehouses shall be given to the Customs Authorities and those Authorities may require goods to be forwarded within a reasonable specified time.
ARTICLE X.
For the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony the Government of Hongkong will select in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs certain ports of entry for merchandise including livestock.
Whenever it is found that any merchandise or livestock has been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents
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