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() Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. to inspection by the Hongkong Government.
salt shall keep such books as may be The books shall at all times be open
(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territorios leased under the Convention of the 19th June 1898 shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.
(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.
(i) Salt in excess of a prescribed amount shall not be removed from a licensed ware- house or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.
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 Hongkong to Kuangtung under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.
ARTICLE III.
No person 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. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.
ARTICLE IV.
During the period of this Agreement the Government of Hongkong will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a sub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as may be approved by the Hongkong Government.
ARTICLE V.
Steam-launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations may trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province subject to the following conditions:-
(a) The term 'non-open port" shall mean any non-treaty port upon the inland waterways of the Kuangtung Province and it shall include such non-treaty ports upon the sea coast of the Kuangtung Province as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Canton.
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(b) On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hongkong the launch master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the Harbour Authority who shall send one copy to the Commissioner of Customs.
(c) Upon application by the launch master the Chinese Maritime Customs shall grant a special pass for each trip, which special pass shall specify the destination of the launch, the places at which it is proposed to call, and the Customs stations to be called at on both the outward and the return voyages. The launch must proceed direct to the first Customs station specified on the pass.
(d) All launches proceeding to non-treaty ports in the Kuangtung Province under this article must call at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong where cargo and baggage will be examined and hatches may be sealed after loading. Dues may be paid at the master's option at such sub-office or at the station specified on the pass.
(e) On the return voyage from such ports launches with their passengers and cargo must proceed to the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong for examination and payment of the necessary dues, if any, to such sub-office.
(f) Omission to report at the specified Customs station on the outward or inward
voyage will entail confiscation of launch and cargo.
(g) Steam-launches plying between Hongkong and various ports in the Kuangtung Province not open to trade shall receive and convey free of charge matter issued by or addressed to Chinese Post Offices. Other mail matter shall not be conveyed by them.
British vessels accorded the privilege of plying in inland waters (in the Canton Delta) shall accept and carry all mails either originating at Chinese Post Offices or consigned to them, and shall carry no other mails to or from places in such waters.
ARTICLE VI.
Junks and lightera registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs may be towed between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province by steam-launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations; and in that case such junks, lighters, and launches will be treated as junks under sail and will be required to conform to the rules governing junk traffic, and the procedure prescribed in Article V of this Agreement.
ARTICLE VII.
Lighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the Liang Kuang Provinces may have their hatches sealed by the Chinese Maritime Customs prior to departure and such vessels may then proceed direct to their destination. The Chinese Maritime Customs reserve the right to require the launch to call at a Customs station en route for search.
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