CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 458

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or intended to be carried by rail, launch, junk, or other means, the Government of Hongkong shall, upou request being made by the Chinese Maritime Customs, seize the goods or articles in respect of which such false declaration has been made and shall hold them as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritimo Customs of such dues and penalties as would be payable under the regulations of the Chinese Maritime Customs if the seizure had taken place in China.

ARTICLE XV.

Both Governments agree to take the necessary steps to enforce the foregoing Articles by such ordinances, edicts, or regulations as may be appropriate to give them the force of law.

ARTICLE XVI.

This Agreement shall remain in force for a period of five years. It is subject to revision at any time by mutual agreement between the High Contracting Parties and unless denounced by either party six months before date of expiry it shall continue in force from year to year, until either party shall give six months' notice of its desire to terminate it. During the duration of this Agreement the Commissioner of Chinese Customs in Hongkong shall continue to be British.

ARTICLE XVII.

This Agreement has been prepared in English and in Chinese. In the event of there being any difference of meaning between the English and the Chinese texts the sense as expressed in the English text shall be held to be the correct sense.

ARTICLE XVIII.

This Agreement shall come into force on the

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in quadruplicate (four copies in Euglish and four copies in Chinese)

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APPENDIX J.

1929 DRAFT OF THE ANGLO-CHINESE CUSTOMS AGREEMENT

OF HONG KONG.

The Government of the Republic of China and the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong being mutually desirous of safeguarding the revenue of the Chinese Maritime Customs and of securing reciprocal benefits of trade and commerce have authorised the undersigned to conclude the following Agreement.

ARTICE I

Junk means any sea-going sailing vessel of Chinese or other Asiatic build, construction, and rig.

For the better regulation of junks in the waters of Hong Kong the Government of that Colony undertakes that:-

(a) All junks shall be licensed either as trading or as fishing junks, and no junk shall be granted a licence in both classes at the same time. A fishing junk shall not be employed for any purpose other than fishing,

(b) The proper Hong Kong authorities shall supply every junk with a certificate of

registration in the form of a licence book.

(c) Trading junks may not leave any port in the Colony between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M. from October to March (inclusive) or 7 P.M. to 5 A.M. from April to September.

(d) Junks shall have their certificate number suitably marked on their hulls in such a manner as the proper Hong Kong authorities may direct. Supervision shall be exercised by the proper British authority over stores carried.

(e) All trading junks on arrival at or departure from the Colony shall enter and

clear at one of the following anchorages:-

Victoria, Yaumati, Shaukiwan, Sai Kung, Tai O, Cheung Chau, Aberdeen,

Tai Po, Stanley, and Tsun Wan.

Provided that the above list may be varied by mutual consent at any time. (f) Every trading junk on entering and on clearing at an anchorage in the Colony of Hong Kong shall have its licence book and also its Chinese Maritime Customs pass book endorsed and dated by the proper Hong Kong authorities. The proper Hong Kong authorities shall satisfy themselves, on each occasion when a trading junk enters an anchorage in the Colony, that such junk has reported at the proper Chinese Maritime Customs station both on its voyage to the Colony and on its last voyage from the Colony.

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