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(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall
keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed
amount without a special licence.
(1) As the provisions or this Article are designed
to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government,
that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt
transported from Hong Kong to China under the above
regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritine
Customs Office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue
without restriction consignments of salt to Kuantung
through the waters of the Colony from the salt works
on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.
ARTICLE III.
No person in Hong Kong shall have cynamite or other
explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession
except as provided by law and no person shall store
such articles except under licence. Every licensee
shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity
received under permit, and the amount used daily. A11
such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong
Government.
ARTICLE IV.
During the period of this Agreement the Hong Kong
Government will all ɔw the Chinese Maritime Customa to
maintain for Customs purposes a head office and a sub-
office or sub-offices at such place or places as may be
approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow
Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in
the waters of the Colony as may be necessary for the
carrying out of the terms of this Agreement.
/ARTICLE V.