Directory_and_Chronicle_1890 — Page 397

PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, PILOTAGE, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c. 359

SPECIAL LOCAL REGULATIONS.

CANTON.

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.

I.-Masters must deposit their ship's papers and manifest with their Consul (if they have no Consul, with the Customs) within 48 hours after entering the port.

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 re-landed.

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

4

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. 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.-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 they must repair to the Customs' jetty for examination.

SWATOW.

REGULATIONS FOR COASTING STEAMERS.

I.—The agent or agents of each British steamer or line of steamers engaged in the Coasting Trade between Foochow and Hongkong and intermediate 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 ber 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 obtained.

III. A manifest will have to be handed in, at the expiration of every month, 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,..