CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931 — Page 24

will provide

(For the better regulation of junks in the waters of the 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 granted a licence in more than one class at the same time. A fishing 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 October to March (inclusive) or 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. from April to September: Provided that in special cases the proper Hong Kong authorities may, after notice to the Chinese Maritime Custoins, 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 and classification suitably marked on their hulls in such a manner as the proper Hong Kong authorities may direct. Supervision shall be exercised by the proper Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong authorities shall direct, and shall there be examined and pay the Chinese Customs duties.

(f) Every general trading junk on entering and on clearing from 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.

(g) Every general trading junk on entering or clearing from the Colony shall deposit with the proper Hong Kong authorities a manifest in duplicate, in Chinese or English, of all cargo carried.

(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 Hong Kong Government and the Chinese authorities. The proper authorities shall continue to exercise super- vision over arms and certificates.

ARTICLE XII.

will

(a) The Hong Kong Government agrees to control the movements of all salt upon import into, or production in, or export from the Colony.

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