HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-PROHIBITED CONTENTS.
injurious to health; salt, foreign coins, Implements for coining, As regards plums, sardines, &c., see page para. 42.
39.-Letters; materials for the composi- tions of gunpowder, salt, poisons (unless addressed to chemists or druggists), foreign silver and copper coins, books of the Mussulman religion, hashish and natron, articles likely to import the plague, viz.:— Wearing apparel, worn clothing, bedding that has been used, rags, and waste stuff, not excepting hydraulic pressed rags, used socks, carpets and worn embroideries, leather, untanned and fresh skins, fresh animal matter, hoofs of all kinds, horse hair, bristles, raw wool and human hair. The tobacco grown in certain countries is not admissible into Egypt, the country of origin should be stated on the declaration forin. The importation of arms is subject to special restrictions.
40.-Letters, rags, shoddy and disused clothing.
41.-Letters, secret and forbidden arms, ammunition, game out of season (grouse not included), fresh meat (except fillets and sirloins of beef), birds of various kinds, birds suared or netted, foreign bronze coin, tobacco (unless addressed to the "Regie" or in limited quantities for the personal use of the addressee), essence of tobacco, playing cards, shrubs, young trees (unless accompanied by phylloxera certificate), vines, all parts of the vine, cuttings with or without roots, grapes, &c., unless the consent of the Government is previously obtained. Medicine is ac- cepted at the sender's risk, and the pre- scription must be copied upon the Customs Declaration Form. Articles of gold and silver and other precious articles can only be sent in insured parcels, and gold and silver jewellery not of the French legal standard will be broken up before being returned to the senders.
42.-Same as France, except that tobacco is admitted without restriction.
4. Same as France, except that tobacco is admitted.
44.-Arms and ammunition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
45.-Same as France, with the addition of opium and silver coin. Medicine, Havana tobacco, and playing cards are, however, admissible.
46.-Same as France, Letters; coin, articles of gold or silver and other pre- cious articles.
47.-Guadeloups; same as France, except that tobacco is admitted. Martinique: letters.
48.-Letters, plants, cuttings and leaves of vines from countries where phylloxera exists unless accompanied by a certificate,
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49.-Letters, roots, mushroom spawn, parts of the vine (except grapes), plants or fresh fruit of Japanese F Emerican origin (except American water plants), potatoes of American origin, loose playing cards, and incomplete packs of cards, salt meat in pieces weighing less than 4 kilos (8 ib. lá oz.) n.cat (except venison or flesh of water animals or birds, if in sound condition), whether fresh, frozen, cured, pickled, prepared with chemical preserv- atives or colouring matter, or in sealed cases, sausages, and mixtures of minced meat. Swine's flesh of American origin in any form (unless accompanied by a proper sanitary certificate), saccharin and similar products and preparations containing them.
50.-Arms, parts of firearms, ammuni- tion, utensils of war, naval or military stores, unless special permission has been obtained; essences of gin, rum, brandy and whisky.
51.- Firearms, ammunition, machines for making or filling cartridges.
52.-Letters, samples declared to be of no value, copper and bronze money ; fresh meat; worn linen and used bedding, un- less washed, old clothes, old shoes, rags, old paper, playing cards, cigarette papers, salt and other articles which tall within the monopoly of the Greek Government ; saccharine and its products, unless ad- dressed to a chemist; vines, plants gen- erally and parts thereof, including flowers and fruit, pigs' flesh, sausages, raw hides, wool, horns, bone and other parts of oxen and sheep, unless accompanied by a certi- ficate of origin properly authenticated by a Greek Consul.
53.-Letters, liquids, corrosive sub- stances, poisons.
54.-Letters; pirated editions of copy- right works, bronze coins and bronze dies for coining articles excluded by the Phylloxera Convention; grapes; uncured hides, flesh, wool, and hair of animals (other than pigs' bristles prepared for the manufacture of brushes), except by per- mission of the Minister of Agriculture; living plants of American origin, any material in which they have been packed; plants or living parts of plants originating is countries other than America (unless accompanied by a certificate of origin).
55.-Letters, cocaine, opium, bhang, coins of £5 in value and 8 ozs. in weight. Andaman Islands-Preparations of hemp. Burma:-- Opium, firearnis and ammunition (except for the Government); preparations of hemp. Baghdad or Busrah:--Worn clothes; arms, ammunition, poisons, and caricatures of Royal or other notable per- sons.
56.-Letters, salt, unmanufactured to- bacco unless specially authorised, plants,
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