Directory_and_Chronicle_1882 — Page 948

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

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 Hai 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. Amen Iment 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.-In all cases of transhipment, application must be made for a tranship per- mit. 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 thay must repair to the Customs' jetty for examination.

SWATOW.

REGULATIONS FOR COASTING STEAMERS.

I-The agent or agents of each British st amer or line of steamers engaged in the Coasting Trade between Foochow and Hongkong and interm dite ports, will be required to give a bond as guarantee for the due observance by them of the Treaty and Local Regulations.

II.-After any such steamer has been reported at the Consulate office, and her papers lodged according to the usual form, it will not be necessary (unless she has to renew her tonnage dues certificate) that she should again be formally reported for four months; but whenever she enters the port her arrival must be notified at the Consulate. It will not, however, be required that her papers should be shown or a clearance obtaine 1.

III.-A manifest will have to be handed in, at the expiration of every mouth, of all cargo and treasure imported into or exported from the port.

IV. The fee for every entry as a "coasting steamer" shall be $12.

V. It will be incumbent on the agent or master of a "coasting steamer," under a penalty of $25, to notify at the Consulate office within one hour after her arrival should it be during daylight, or before 8 A.M. should it be dark, the hour at which it is intendel to despatch every such steamer. And should any steamer engaged in the coasting trade depart previous to the hour for which she has been circulated (such time to be taken from the clock in the Consulate office) a fine of $50 will be inflicted.

ΑΜΟΥ.

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.

I-The limits of the port are defined within lines drawn from the Southern- most point of Amoy island South-eastward to the nearest island; and thence in the direction of the high pagoda, to the point of Lim tae-hoo Hill; and from the North- ernmost point of Amoy island to the opposite point on the mainland.

II. The shipment and discharge of cargo can only be carried on in the inner harbour between Kulangsoo and. Amoy: Northern and Southern limits. The authorised Customs' jetties for the examination, landing, and shipment of goods, are those known as the Kang-ah-kow and Custom-house wharves.