CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 298

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(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall

keep salt on his premiacs in excess of a prescribed

amount without a special licence.

(1) As the provisions of this Article are designed

to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government,

that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt

transported from Hong Kong to China under the above

regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime

Customs office in Hong Kong, and to allɔw to continue

without restriction consignments of salt to Kuantung

through the waters of the Colony from the salt works

on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.

ARTICLE III.

No person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other

explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession

except as provided by law and no person shall store

such articles except under licence. Every licensee

shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity

received under permit, and the amount used daily. A11

such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong

Government.

ARTICLE IV.

During the period of this Agreement the Hong Kong

Government will all ɔw the Chinese Maritime Customs to

maintain for Customs purposes a head office and a sub-

office or sub-offices at such place or places as may be

approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow

Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in

the waters of the Col ny as may be necessary for the

carrying out of the terms of this Agreement.

/ARTICLE V.

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