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(b) Supplying the Imports and Exports Office with

similar details regarding Inland waters Steam launches.

(c) Allowing Chinese produce shipped from one Treaty

Port to another Treaty Port via Hongkong to be transhipped

at Hongkong into either ste mer or junk without forfeiture

of their native status.

(a) Fermitting foreign goods carried by junks or

launches clearing for non-treaty Ports to pay Import

Duty and Transit Dues before departure from Hongkong.

If the hatches of such launches and junks, containing

such Duty-paid foreign cargo, can be satisfactorily

sealed by the Chinese Customs, such launches and junks

will not suffer delay in passing Chinese Customs Stations

aud Barriers.

(e)

Assisting the Hongkong Governm nt in preventing

the illicit entry either by sea or land into the Colony

from China of Liquor, Opium, compounds of Opium amd all

other contraband goods.

(f)

Obtaining from the Hongkong Government in return

for these advantages the right to function freely in

Hongkong waters in examining junks, launches, etc. and

their cargoes, levying and collecting the Duties due to

the Chinese Government, in making legitimate seizures,

and arranging for the restoration to China of the right

to re-establish certain Customs Stations in British waters

in order to facilitate Customs preventive measures, etc.

Shanghai, 3rd July, 1929.