CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931 — Page 121

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made of any mechanical means other than oars and sails.

All Launches on arrival or departure from the Colony

shall enter and clear at such station in the Colony as the

proper Hong Kong authorities shall direct and shall there

pay the Chinese Customs dues.

ARTICLE X.

Lighter means any barge or other like vessel for

carrying cargo and intended to be towed, not being a junk.

All lighters on arrival at or departure from the

Colony shall enter and clear ct such station in the Colony

as the proper Hong Kong authorities shall direct and shall

there pay the Chinese Customs dues.

ARTICLE XI.

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

thb Colony the Hong Kong Government undertakes that:-

(a) All junks shall be licensed either as general

trading, local trading or as fishing junks,

and no junk shall be grated a licence in

more than one class at the same time. A fish-

ing junk shall not be employed for any purpose

other than fishing. A local trading junk

shall not be employed outside the waters of

the Colony of Hong Kong.

(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 /