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on foreign goods imported here for export to China.

Mr Johnston: Include shipment in bond.

Mr. Maze: I have submitted bonded warehouse

regulations for China.

produce going from one

These also provide for

Treaty Port to another

Treaty Port in bond. To might be able to extend it to cover Hong Kong.

His Excellency Mr.Johnston, will you please consider with Mr. Lloyd how such an article can be best worded?

Article XIII

Article XIV ?

This is already in force.

Sir Joseph Kemp: This is difficult, there ought to be power not only to seize, but to enforce. The other point is that I contemplate seizure of goods and sale of goods seized to enforce payment of definite Customs duty. You come to the question of ponalties, they range from nothing to a large maximum, it is rather difficult to take power to seize and sell to provide the payment of some indefinito penalty in China. Would it not be better to provide a penalty to be enforced here?

Mr. Southorn: Had we not better make this enforcable in our Courts and not by Customs. Mr. Maze: Ne sot as a Revenue Court - we have

certain

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