CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929 — Page 47

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(a) Permitting foreign goods carried by junks or

steamers clearing for non-Treaty Ports to pay

Import Duty and Transit Dues before departure

from Hongkong.

containing such duty-paid foreign cargo, can be

If the hatches of such vessels,

satisfactorily sealed by the Chinese Customs.

such veskels will not suffer delay in passing

Chinese Customs Stations and Barriers.

(e) Assisting, as far as possible, the Hongkong Govern-

ment in preventing the illicit entry either by

sea or land into the Colony from China of Liquor,

Opium, compounds of Opium and all other contraband

goods.

(f) Permitting Hongkong steamers to participate in

the Inland waters Steam Navigation privileges.

(g) Permitting Hongkong merchants to liquidate in

(h)

Hongkong Duty on foreign Imports destined for

China in other words, throwing open to them

China's Bonding privileges.

Obtaining from the Hongkong Government in return

for these advantages the right to function freely

in Hongkong waters in examining junks, launches,

eto. and their cargoes, levying and collecting the

duties due to the Chinese Government, in making

legitimate seizures, and arranging for the res-

toration to China of the right to re-establish

certain Customs Stations in British waters,

and also, if necessary, on the Shumchun River,

in order to facilitate Customs Preventive

measures, etc.

7./