2.
to include an Acting Commissioner) shall be British, as
heretofore, and shall be a person acceptable to the Hong
Kong Government. The Deputy Commissioner (which expression shall likewise include an Acting Deputy Commissioner) may
be, if so desired, Chinese but he shall also be a person
acceptable to the Hong Kong Government.
ARTICLE V.
Neither the Commissioner, nor the Deputy Commissioner
specified in the foregoing Article shall be regarded as
being seconded under the terms of Article I. They shall
not interfere with the control, discipline or direction of
the members of the seconded staff; but they shall remain
as heretofore directly under the orders of the Inspector
General of Chinese Customs. For the carrying out of the
terms of this Agreement they shall act as liaison officers
between the Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs
and the Hong Kong Superintendent of Imports and Exports.
VI
Coasting steamer means any steam or motor vessel bot
being a sea-going motor boat or launch, which includes in
its ports of call any place on the east coats of Asia betweer
Dairen and Haiphong inclusive, or any place on any river
flowing into the sea between Dairen and Haiphong, or any
place in Formosa, and the usual extreme trading limits of
which do not extend beyond such places.
Every coasting steamer clearing out of the Colony of
Hong Kong or arriving there shall provide a manifest in
duplicate of all its cargo and shall be liable to search for
unmanifested cargo by the proper Hong Kong authorities.
The Chinese dues on the cargo shipped from Hong Kong on such
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