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(9) That any junk failing to produce her Imperial Maritime Customs pass book and proof of payment of Customs dues shall be detained by the Harbour Authority while the junk master proceeds to the nearest Imperial Maritime Customs station to secure the required documents.
(h) That if the Harbour Authority is satisfied that a junk has evaded payment of proper Customs dues, he shall notify the fact to the Imperial Maritime Customs Commissioner.
(i) That every trading junk, arriving or departing, shall deposit a manifest of inward and outward cargo with the Harbour Authority, who shall inform the Com- missioner of Customs of the contents thereof.
ARTICLE II.
(a) Every vessel bringing salt, sulphur, or saltpetre into the waters of the Colony shall declare the quantity, port of origin, and destination to the Harbour Authority. If the salt, sulphur, or saltpetre is to be landed or transhipped, it shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse.
(b) Any junk or launch importing salt, sulphur, or saltpetre into the waters of the Colony without the usual documents required by the Chinese Authorities shall be detained by the Harbour Authority until the master of the junk or launch has proceeded to the nearest Imperial Maritime Customs station to procure the required documents.
(c) No salt, sulphur, or saltpetre may be withdrawn from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which, if the salt, sulphur, or salt petre is declared for export to China, shall be granted only on production of the usual import certificates properly authenticated by the Commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs.
(d) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt, sulphur, or saltpetre shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by Government.
(e) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories, leased under the Convention of June 19th 1898, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee thereof shall keep a register in a prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by Government.
(ƒ) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of
a prescribed amount without a special licence.
(g) Salt in excess of the prescribed quantity shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.
ARTICLE III.
No person shall have dynamite or other explosives in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store dynamite except by licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by Government.
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