SECRET.
My dear Lampson,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
143
HONGKONG.
11th October,
1930.
Very many thanks for your letter of the 27th
September, and for your help in the matter.
I have gone carefully through the new draft
agreement, submitted by Maze, and am wiring you certain
modifications, which I should like to see made.
Apart
from the question of the precedence of the Commissioner
and Deputy Commissioner, my suggestions are not really
contentious.
If the proposed addition is made to Article
22, the Attorney General is of opinion that wright's
new paragraph in Articles 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11g,
regarding penalties for depositing false manifests, is
unnecessary. It is not a point, however, that I should
allow to delay the completion of the agreement.
In view
of the Attorney General's views, however, it seems a
pity not to excise it. The omission of the words
"be held to" in line 2 of Article 4 is an improvement,
and does not, of course, alter the meaning.
Maze's
printed copy omits certain words in Article 8 after
"Hongkong" in line 3, namely "for or arrives at the
Colony of Hong Kong from". The addition of the words
"if any" in Articles 9 and 10 corresponds with the
second paragraph of Article 8. In view of Teichman's
note on Article 16, it seems rather illogical definitel
to exclude from the agreement all "reconditioning"
therefore suggest the addition of the words "except
under rules prescribed by the Chinese Maritime Customs
Bowever, this is not a matter that need delay the agreement
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