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notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer can only be sent in insured parcels. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together.

85-Same as Portugal, with the excep tion of tobacco, which is not prohibited.

86.-See South Africa, British.

87.-Letters; ikons (religious images or pictures), photographs and reproductions of works representing scenes from foreign history; copper, nickel, silver and gold coins not current in Roumania (except antique coins); coins intended for purposes of orna- ment; soiled paper; cotton waste; coffee prepared with colouring matter;

(unless accompanied by a permit for their transit through Austria, to be obtained from the "Bezerkshaupt-manschaft" of the district in which the Austrian Customs Office of entry is situated), and ammunition; colouring matter and essences used for the manufacture or adulteration of wine or brandy; saccharine (unless for authorised chemists); patent medicines and pharmaceutical preparations (except to authorised institutions); trees and plants of all kinds (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate countersigned by a Roumanian consul); tobacco in any form, cigarette papers, playing cards, salt, and mineral waters, weights and measures of any kind are only admitted by special permission.

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88.---Letters; used Russian postage stamps; labels not sent with the goods to which they apply; rags and old clothes sent as merchandise, and unmanufactured animal products (unless accompanied by a proper certificate of disinfection), plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate. One certificate suffices for 3 uninsured parcels for same addressee); all parts of the vine except grapes; small silver and copper coins, Russian or Foreign; gold or silver articles not up to the proper standard; prize coupons; sword-sticks; air-guns; arms (except by special permis- sion to be obtained by the addressee); playing cards; unauthorised medicines: articles coloured with arsenical dyes; aniline and similar dyes except in crystal form; margarine products; swine's flesh 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, ammunition, air- guns, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, ap- paratus for coining money.

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91.-Letters, opium 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). ↑

91as-Letters, opium, morphine, cocaine. 92.-Letters, lottery tickets, arms and ammunition; tobacco, salt, petrol and al- cohol 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, arms, 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).

96.-Letters, coins, firearms and ammuni- 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 matches, 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.

98.-Letters, spirits and bhang, 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 hypoder- mic needles. Drugs should be fully described in the Customs Declaration; otherwise they are liable to be detained for examination.

99--Shaving brushes manufactured in Japan; 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-