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and all its products, except lard; artificial saffron; compounds, described as "tea". but containing mixtures of other herbs; and, to Finland, brandy; poisons; pota- toes; alcoholic varnish; articles of celluloid except in wooden boxes.
90.-Letters, arms, except revolvers of calibre less than .44, air-guns, nitrate of potaslı, saltpetre, apparatus for coining money.
91.-Letters, opiuin as an article of consumption (except for the Government); firearms, ammunition, air-guns, and air- pistols (except for the use of the Govern- ment or with its written authority).
91a.-Letters, opium.
92-Letters, lottery tickets, arms and ainmunition; tobacco, salt, petrol and al- coliol unless with the consent of the Ad- ministration of Monopolies; saccharine, medicines and drugs not addressed to chemists; pharmaceutical products not in the official pharinacopoeia; colours (with certain exceptions), used clothing or linen. Meat, fresh or prepared, and animal pro- ducts of all kinds are subject to sanitary regulations.
93.-Letters, arnis, opium.
93a.--Letters (except one for the ad- dressee). Liquids.
94. Letters, old clothing, counterfeit coin, foreign goods bearing a false trade- mark of a manufactory established in the United Kingdom.
95. Poisons (except under special licence).
97. Letters, coins, firearms and ammunis tion, air-guns, reproductions of Spanish maps or plans, missals, breviaries, rosaries, relics, &c., pharmaceutical preparations or patent medicines of unknown composition of which the prescription has not been pub- lished, wax vestas and all kinds of inatches, substances containing saccharine, unmanu factured tobacco, tobacco-seed and juice, plants unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate, to which, if in English, a French or Spanish version should be appended, gold, silver (including articles mounted with these metals), jewellery, playing cards, &c. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together. As regards plums, sardines, &c., sent via France, see France.
97.-See, previous page.
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98.-Letters, spirits and bliang, firearms, parts of firearms and ammunition, except under permit; and, unless addressed to the Principal Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, opium, morphia, morphine, cocaine, hypodermic syringes and other instruments, or parts of instruments for hypodermic injection, including hy poder- mic needles. Drugs should be fully
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described in the Customs Declaration; otherwise they are liable to be detained for examination.
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99.-Letters; manufactured gold and silver not of a certain degree of fineness some pharmaeutical products and arsenic, unless addressed to a State Pharmacy or to specially authorised persons; articles made abroad which bear the name of a place, property, manufactory or tradesman in Sweden, or any marking in Swedish to explain the nature of the goods must bear the word Import" or the name and domi- cile of the foreign manufacturer, applied conspicuously and indelibly. Goods which do not comply with this regulation are, confiscated.
100.-Letters, newspapers and post cards intended for distribution; Italian, 1 and 2 franc pieces, glassware with Swiss Federal or Cantonal gauge marks; salt, unless with the permission of Cantonal authorities; alcohol, unless addressed to Federal authority, and other spirits, unless gross weight and percentage of alcohol are shown on the Customs Declaration; earth compost, grapes addressed to places in the Canton Valais, grapes addressed to other parts of Switzerland (unless accompanied by a special permit from the Federal De- partment of Agriculture); vines and parts: thereof, other plants and bulbs (unless ac- companied by a phylloxera certificate and special permit from the Federal Depart- ment of Agriculture); birds of many kinds, meat prepared with colouring or preserva- tive matter; fresh sausages and similar mixtures, and all fresh meat except sirloins of beef, ox tongues, and sweet- breads. Sausages made of dried meat must be made of meat only, without the addition of any other substance; preserved meat, in sealed receptacles, must be mark- ed with the description of the contents and the name
or trade mark of the manu facturer or vendor. All parcels containing meat inust be accompanied by a certificate of origin and inspection of approved form. No frozen meat can be imported without previous permission. Poultry, fish or ganie (including hares and rabbits) can only be sent whole.
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|: 100a-Live animals, coins and bullion; Indecent, profane aid libellous documents.
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101. Letters, parts of articles liable to duty in Trinidad, run, all other spirits except bond-fide samples and perfumed for medicinal spirits, ganja, bhang, cannabis indica, opiumi and tobacco, or any preparation thereof.
101a.-Same as Portugal.
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102:- Letters, coin, arms and ammuni- tion of war, nitrate of soda, saltpetre, sulphur, salt, tobacco, plants, parts of the
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