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(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: Provided that in special cases the proper Hongkong authorities may, after notice to the Chinese Maritime Customs, allow a junk to leave a port in the Colony at any special hour or between any specified hours. (d) Junks shall have their certificate number suitably marked on their hulls in such a manner as the proper Hongkong authorities may direct. Supervision shall be exercised by the proper Hongkong authorities over stores carried.
(e) All general trading junks on arrival at or departure from the Colony shall enter and clear at such station in the Colony as the proper Hongkong authorities shall direct, and shall there be examined and pay the Chinese Customs duties.
(/) Every general trading junk on entering and on clearing at an anchorage in the Colony of Hongkong shall have its licence book and also its Chinese Maritime Customs pass book endorsed and dated by the proper Hongkong authorities. (g) Every general trading junk on entering or clearing at au anchorage in the Colony shall deposit with the proper Hongkong authorities a manifest in duplicate, in Chinese or English, of all cargo carried. The depositing of a false manifest by the master or agent of a junk shall render the master or agent liable to a due or other penalty as may be decided by the proper Hongkong authorities under the terms of Article XXII.
(h) The existing scale of arms that may be carried by junk shall remain in force, subject to such modification as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Hongkong Government and the Chinese authorities. The proper authorities shall continue to exercise supervision over arms and certificates.
ARTICLE XII.
(a) The Hongkong Government agrees to control the movements of all salt upon import into, or production in, or export from the Colony.
(b) Every vessel bringing salt into the waters of the Colony shall declare to the proper Hongkong authorities the quantity, port of origin, and destination of such salt.
(c) The import into China of foreign salt, including salt manufactured in the New Territories (Hongkong), is and remains prohibited.
(d) If any vessel imports salt from China into the waters of the Colony which is not covered by a pass in the prescribed form issued by the proper authority in the Chinese Salt Department, the proper Hongkong authorities shall forthwith report the matter to the Com- missioner of Customs, and such vessel shall be liable to seizure by such Hongkong authorities
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