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APPENDIX NO. 2.
Rough outline of suggested plan of co-operation between
the Hongkong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs
for the safeguarding of China's Customs Revenue and for
the securing of reciprocal benefits to trade and commerce.
The Chinese Customs office in Hongkong which was
established in April 1887, was opened there by virtue of the
Opium Agreement of 1886, and by this Agreement the four
Stations already existing for the control of traffic in the
delta, one at Capsuimoon, one at Changohow, one at Fotochow
and the fourth at Kowloon, were placed under the Kowloon
Commissioner.
When the New Territory was handed over to the
Hongkong Government in 1899, in accordance with the terms
of the Convention of 1898 for the Extension of Hongkong,
these Stations
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with the temporary exception of Kowloon -
were elosed, and new Stations and Frontier Guard Posts were
established at various distant points along the new frontier;
while the Chinese waters, outside the British area, were
patrolled by the Customs Revenue Cruisers.
On the completion of the Canton-Kowloon Railway
in October 1911 a Chinese Maritime Customs Examination and
Duty-collecting Station was, by mutual agreement, opened at
the Kowloon terminus (mainly for the convenience of the Hong-
kong merchants), and has functioned there ever since, a fact
which creates an invaluable precedent for the further exten-
sion of Chinese Customs activities within Hongkong territory.
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