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ARTICLE XIII.
No person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite 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. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.
ARTICLE XIV.
During the currency of this Agreement the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain in the city of Victoria an office for the use of the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner of the Chinese Customs Service appointed as aforesaid to reside in Hong Kong; but the Chinese Maritime Customs shall not maintain any sub-office or any Customs station in the territory of the Colony of Hong Kong.
ARTICLE XV.
Except in special cases where, after consultation between the Commissioner of Chinese Customs and the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, joint opera- tions are decided upon, Revenue vessels of the Chinese Maritime Customs function- ing in Chinese waters and Revenue vessels of the Colony of Hong Kong functioning in Colonial, waters shall not use each other's waters in the exercise of preventive duties.
ARTICLE XVI.
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Goods, whether Chinese or foreign, passing through the Colony of Hong Kong, 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 Chinese documents at the port of destination, subject to the following conditions:- (a) The Hong Kong Superintendent of Imports and Exports shall super- vise goods in transit without landing or transshipment during such period as the 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 bonded warehouses appointed by the Hong Kong Superintendent of Imports and Exports. In cases, however, where the 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 numbered in such a way as to be easily identifiable, the Super- intendent may, with the concurrence of the Commissioner of Chinese Customs, waive the obligation to place such goods in a bonded ware- house.
(c) Chinese goods, under Chinese Customs documents from a treaty port in China, which are landed for bonding or sealed in
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