CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929 — Page 60

Enclosure No. 2.

Rough outline of suggested plan of co-operation between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs for the safeguarding of China's Customs Revenue and for the securing of reciprocal benefits to trade and commerce.

The Chinese Customs Office in Hong Kong which was established in April 1887, was opened there by virtue of the Opium Agreement of 1886, and by this agreement the four Stations already existing for the control of traffic in the delta, one at Capsuimoon, one at Changchow, one at Fotochow and the fourth at Kowloon, were placed under the Kowloon Commissioner.

When the New Territory was handed over to the

Hong Kong Government in 1899, in accordance with the terms

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of the Convention of 1898 for the Extension of Hong Kong,

those Stations with the temporary exccption of Kowloon were closed, and new Stations and Frontier Guard Posts were established at various distant points along the new fronticr; while the Chinese waters, outside the British

arca, wore patrolled by the Customs Revenue Cruisers.

On the completion of the Canton-Kowloon Railway in October 1911 a Chinoso Haritine Customs Examination and Duty-collecting Station was, by mutual agreemont, opened at the Kowloon terminus (mainly for the convenience

of the

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