OPIUM AGREEMENT
ANNEX
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On the date of the signature of the Agreement a list shall be taken by the Commissioners of Customs acting in concert with the Colonial and Consular officials of all uncertified Indian opium in bond at the Treaty Ports and of all uncertified opium in stock in Hongkong which is bona fide intended for the Chinese market, and all such opium shall be marked with labels and on payment of Tls. 110 con- solidated import duty shall be entitled to the same Treaty rights and privileges in China as certificated opium.
Opium so marked and in stock in Hongkong must be exported to a Chinese port within seven days of the signature of the Agreement.
All other uncertificated Indian opium shall for a period of two months from the date of the signature of the Agreement be landed at the ports of Shanghai and Canton only, and at the expiration of this period all Treaty Ports shall be closed to uncerti- ficated opium provided the Chinese Government have obtained the consent of the other Treaty Powers.
The Imperial Maritime Customs shall keep a returu of all uncertificated opium landed at Shanghai and Canton during this period of two months, other than opium marked and labelled as provided above, and such opium shall pay the new rate of consolidated import duty and shall not be re-exported in bond to other Treaty ports.
In addition to the annual reduction of 5,100 chests already agreed upon, His Majesty's Government agree further to reduce the import of Indian opium during each of the years 1912, 1913 and 1914 by an amount equal to one-third of the total ascertained amount of the uncertificated Indian opium in bond in Chinese Treaty Ports, and in stock in Hongkong on the date of signature, plus one-third of the amount of uncertificated Indian opium landed during the ensuing two months at Shanghai and Canton.
Done at Peking this eighth day of May one thousand nine hundred and eleven, being the tenth day of the fourth month of the third year of Hsuan T'ung.
[L.S.] J N. Jordan.
[L.S.]
TSOU CHIA-LAI.
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