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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Description of Article and Treatment.
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Canada
Belgium Italy
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Portugal India
Spain
Republic of Columbia
Uruguay
United States
Venezuela
.Advertising painphlets and circulars
(Liable to Cus- toms duty.
Certain printed papers.
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.Books if sent to any one person or
any considerable extent.
Bound books.
All articles under this head with the exception of printed books and
newspapers.
.All articles under this head.
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Except those for the personal use of the addressees all articles under this head. .Except newspapers and periodicals,. photographs and printed papers other than books intended for personal use and not for sale; or books, etc., more than 20 years old. .All books except unbound books re- lating to service, art, or crafts.
Commercial Papers
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58. The term "Commercial Papers" is understood to comprise all papers and all documents, whether writings or drawings, produced wholly or partly by hand, not having the character of an actual or personal correspondence such as open letters and postcards of ancient date which have already fulfilled their original purpose, papers of legal procedure, deeds of all kinds drawn up by public functionaries, waybills, or bills of lading, invoices, the various documents of insurance companies, copies of or extracts from Acts under private signature written on
on stamped or unstamped paper, musical scores, or sheets of music in manuscript, the manuscripts of works or of news- papers forwarded separately, pupils' exercises in original or with corrections but without any comment on the work, etc.
59.-Commercial papers are subject, so far as regards form and conditions of transmission, to the regulations prescribed for printed papers.
60.-The postage on Commercial Papers for all destinations is 10 cents for a package not exceeding 10 ozs. in weight and 2 cents for every 2 ozs. thereafter; packets of Commercial papers which are insufficiently prepaid will be forwarded taxed and double the deficiency in prepayment will be collected on delivery.
Samples
61. Samples of merchandise must possess no saleable value, nor bear any writing except the name or the commercial style of the sender, the address of the person for whom they are intended, a manufacturer's or trade mark, numbers, prices and indications relative to weight or measurement and dimensions or to the quantity to be disposed of; or such as are necessary to determine the origin and nature of the goods.
62.-Packets containing samples of glass, liquids, oils, fatty substances, dry powders whether dyes or not, as well as packets of live bees, are admitted to trans- mission as samples of merchandise, provided that they be packed in the following
manner:----
(a) Artices of glass must be securely packed (boxes of metal or of wood) in
a way to prevent all danger to the mails and postal officers. (). Liquids, oils, and substances easily liquified must be enclosed in glass bottles hermetically sealed. Each bottle must be placed in a wooden box furnished with sawdust, cotton or spongy material in sufficient quantity to absorb the liquid in the event of the bottle becoming broken. Finally the box itself must be enclosed in a case of metal, of wood with a sciew-top, or of strong and thick leather.
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