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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c.

II. The import manifest must contain a true account of the nature of the cargo on board, and must be handed to the customs before any application to break bulk can be attended to.

III.-The import manifest having been received and ship's papers duly lodged with the Consul or the customs, permits to land goods will be granted, on the receipt of applications specifying the number of packages, with their marks, weight, quantity, and such like particulars.

IV.-Before shipment of goods, permits to ship must in like manner be obtained. V.-Cargo for which a permit has been issued, but which cannot be received on board, must be brought to the custom-house jetty for examination before being relanded.

VI.-When a vessel has received on board the whole of her outward cargo, the customs must be furnished with an export manifest.

VII.-After examination of goods, consignees or shippers will be supplied with a memo., for which early application should be made, of the duties payable.

They may then pay in the account to the Hae Kwan Bank or receiving office, when they will be furnished with a duty receipt in Chinese, which they must bring to

the customs.

Import duties are due upon the landing of the goods, and export duties on their shipment. Amendment in respect of weight or value must be made within 24 hours after the landing or shipment of the goods.

VIII.-On application being made for the customs' clearance, if the customs are satisfied that the import and export manifest are correct, and that all dues and duties have been paid, the clearance will be issued.

IX. În all cases of transhipment, application must be made for a tranship permit. Goods transhipped before receipt of such permit are liable to confiscation.

X.-Cargo boats conveying goods from Canton to Whampoa for shipment there, must be taken for examination to the customs' jetty, before the goods can be put on board the ship. On arrival at Whampoa, their permits must be exhibited at the Floating Custom-house, for countersignature, in like manner the permit of cargo boats conveying goods to Canton from ships at Whampoa must be countersigned at the Whampoa Floating Custom-house, and on arrival at Canton they must repair to the customs jetty for examination.

LAND REGULATIONS OF BRITISH CONCESSION, SHAMEEN.

I. That the limits wherein these Regulations are binding be the British Con- cession, Shameen.

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II.-In order that due provision should be made for the better order and good government of the Settlement, and also proper arrangements for the making of Roads, building Public Jetties and Offices, and keeping them in repair, and for cleansing, lighting, watering, and draining the Settlement generally, and establishing a watch or police force therein, paying the persons necessarily employed in any Municipal office or capacity, or for raising money by way of loan for any of the purposes aforesaid, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul shall, as soon after the first day of July in each year, or when it may appear to him needful, or on the requisition of the Renters of Land, certain number of them or others entitled to vote on the terms hereinafter mentioned, convene a meeting of such persons to devise ways and means of raising the requisite funds for these purposes; and at such meeting it shall be competent to the said persons or a majority of them in public meeting duly assembled, to declare an assess- ment in the form of a rate to be made on the said Land or Buildings, and it shall also be competent for the said persons, or a majority of them as aforesaid, to impose other Rates and Taxes for the purposes aforesaid, in the form of dues on all goods landed in, shipped from, or passing through the British Concession.

III.—And be it further ordered, that the said Land Renters and others as aforesaid, in Public Meeting duly assembled, under and in accordance with the provisions of the preceding article, shall appoint, in the mode hereinafter provided,