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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-FROHIBITED CONTENTS.
104.-Letters, foreign reprints of British copyright works. Acetylene, saccharine, base coins, foreign coin other than gold or silver, tobacco except for personal use, and coin or bullion over £5 in value or 8 ozs. in weight.
105.-Same as via London.
106.—In addition to those articles which are specified in Postal Guide, Rules 210 and 215, as excluded from transmission by Foreign and Colonial Post, the undermen- tioned articles are prohibited from importation into the United States: Letters, catables, ox-hides, prison-made wares, wines, spirits, cigars, and cigarettes in quantity numbering less than 3,000, Opium containing less than 9 per cent. of morphine.
107-Letters, liquids or semi-liquids, orchilla or litmus and its derivatives, plants or living parts of plants, grapes, game, gold or silver coins (except ancient coins intended for collections, which are admitted up to the number of 10 per parcel).
18.-Letters, cocoanut oil, starch, indigo, cocoa, coffee, syrup, honey, dried and salted meat, salt, sarsaparilla roots, silver, nickel and copper coins, dies for coining, cigarette paper, cigarettes of all sorts and machines for making them and empty cigarette boxes or packets unless addressed to the National Cigarette Factory, and (via France) gold, silver, jewellery, &c. As regards plums, sardines, &c., via France, see France.
109.-Transmission of dutiable articles is prohibited except by Parcels Post; any articles which contravene this regulation are confiscated.
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