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ARTICLE VIII.

foreign goods carried by steam or motor vessels

or by junks or lighters, registered as in Articles V and

VI, clearing from Hong Kong for non-open ports as defined in Article V, shall acquit themselves of import duty

before departure, and may, if we desired, acquit them-

selves also of transit dues and be granted transit

passes, Report for Customs purposes must be made at the

Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office areed upon by the

Hong Kong Government, All vessels carrying transit pass

cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at

the Customs stations specified on the pass. reim

goods carried by steam or motor vessela clearing from

Hong Kong for treaty ports may also, subject to

before shipment, examination,acquit themselves of import duty before

departure.

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ARTICLE IX.

Goods, whether Chinese or foreign, passing

through the Colony under Chinese Customs documents from

one treaty port in China to another, shall meintain their

original status and chall receive the benefit of their

original Customs documents at the port of destination,

subject to the following conditions:-

(a) The Chinese Maritime Customs shall be given

full facilities for supervising goods in transit without 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 anu goods brought by railway for

transmission by sea shall be placed in such

bonded warehouses as may be agreed upon between

the

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