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51.
in the discussion as to means of enforcing
payment of Customs dues by detention of
vessels carrying salt from China into the
Colony, and similarly of enforcing penalties
against junk-owners for infringements under
Art. 1. These points were afterwards
settled by the addition of words providing
for the Government of the Colony to recover
dues payable on behalf of the Customs by
legal process. The Governor said, during
the discussion, that he could not control
shops or license them, nor control the
movement of salt within the colony; he would
do his best to control it on introduction,
on manufacture and on export. It was quite
evident throughout that the Hongkong
Government were not well disposed to the
clauses governing the control and licensing
of salt.
57.
The specifications of Shamshuipo
as the place for the Customs sub-office in
Art. 4 was altered to 'sub-offices at such
'place or places as may be approved by the
'Hongkong Government'.
58.
As regards Art. 5, inland naviga-
tion, the 1918 agreement had limited the
term
non-open port' to the inland waterways
of Kwangtung. Mr. Mase agreed that if mutual
agreement on the Convention could be reached,
there would be no objection to defining it as
'any non-treaty port on the sea-coast of China'
'agreed