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or motor vessels clearing from Hong Kong for treaty ports
may also, subject to examination, acquit themselves of
import duty before departure.
ARTICLE IX.
Goods, whether Chinese or foreign, passing through
the Colony under Chinese 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 donditions:-
(a) The Chinese Maritime Customs shall be given full
facilities for supervising goods in transit with-
out 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 trans-
mission by sea shall be placed in such bonded
warehouses as may be agreed upon between the Hong
Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs.
In cases, however, where goods are securely packed
so as to be capable of being suitably sealed if
necessary, are marked with a distinctive mark
for each consignment, and are mumbered in such a
way as to be easily identifiable, the Customs
Authorities may, at their discretion, waive the
obligation of such goods to be placed in a bonded
warehouse.
(c) Foreign goods under Chinese Customs exemption
certificate, landed at Hong Kong from one treaty
/port