CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 100

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the Hoppo and the likin Board withdrew and

handed over change to the Kowloon Commissioner

of Chinese Maritime Customs, who commenced the

levy of likin and ghing-fei upon general cargo

on the 2nd April, 1887, the collection of

tariff import duty and of Convention likin on

opium on the 14th of the same month, and finally the collection of native duty on general cargo on the 1st July following, by which time the

stations under the new management were in full

operation. The work proper of the Customs House 1.0., the examination of cargo and collection of duties, was done at the previously existing stations in Chinese territory, but the general recording office was located in Hong

Kong. At this office correspondence was carried on, returns for the Board of Trade and Revenue

were prepared and despatched, the office accounts kept and disbursements made, but no dues or

duties of any kind were collected. The

Commissioner himself and his European assistants

resided in Hong Kong island at the Peak.

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This arrangement was understood to be purely temporary, for it had been clearly laid down in the agreement signed on the 11th Septem- ber 1886, that the office of the Foreign Inspectorage of Chinese Maritime Customs should

be established on Chinese Territory at a

convenient spot in Kowloon. But no further

action.

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