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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH AUGUST, 1884.

GKONG

Matting, superior quality, Japanese "tatamis," &c.

Meat, dried and salted. Metals, all Kinds in pipe and tube, corrugated or galvanized, wire, steel, tin plates, nickel, platina, quicksilver, German silver, tutenagne, or white copper, yellow metal unrefined gold and silver.

Metal manufactures, all kinds, as nails, screws, tools, ma-

chinery, railway plant, and hardware.

Mosquito netting not made of silk.

Needles and pins.

Oils, vegetable, all kinds.

Oil and floor cloth, all kinds.

Paper, all kinds, not otherwise provided for.

Plauks, soft wood.

Porcelain, common quality.

Rosin.

Salt.

Sapan wood.

Sea products, as seaweed, bêche de mer, &c. Silk, raw, reeled, thrown floss or waste.

Silk manufactures not otherwise provided for. Spectacles.

Spirits in jars.

Stationery and writing materials of all kinds, blank books,

&c.

Stones and Slate, cut and dressed.

Sugar (brown and white), all qualities, molasses, and syrups. Sulphur.

Table stores, all kinds, and preserved provisions. Tallow.

Tea.

Umbrellas, cotton.

Umbrella frames.

Varnish.

Vermicelli.

Wax, bees' or vegetable.

Wax cloth.

Woods and timber, soft.

Woollen manufactures, all kinds.

Woollen and silk mixtures, all kinds.

All unenumerated articles partly manufactured.

CLASS IV.

Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 10 per cent.

Beer, porter and cider.

Camphor, refined.

Carmine.

Carpets, superior qualities, as Brussels, Kidderminster, and

other kinds not enumerated.

Clocks, and parts thereof.

Clothing made wholly of silk.

Confectionaries and sweetmeats, all kinds.

Explosives used for mining, &c. (imported under special

permit).

Foil, gold and silver.

Furniture of all kinds.

Glass, plate, silvered or unsilvered, framed or unframed. Glassware, all kinds.

Hair, human.

India-rubber, manufactured or not.

Leather, superior kinds, or stamped, figured, or coloured. Leather manufactures, all kinds.

Lacquered-ware, common.

Materials for seals, &c.

Musical boxes.

Musical instruments, all kinds.

Musquito netting made of silk.

Paper, coloured, fancy, wall and hanging.

Photographic apparatus.

Planks, hardwood.

Plated-ware, all kinds.

Pictures, prints, photographs, cngravings, all kinds, framed

or unframed.

Porcelain, superior quality.

Saddlery and harness.

Silk thread, or floss silk in skein.

Silk manufactures, as gauze, crape, Japanese amber lustrings, satins, satin damasks, figured satins, Japanese white silk ("habutai ").

Soap, superior qualities.

Sugar candy.

Telescopes and binocular glasses.

Tooth powder.

Trunks and portmanteaux.

Umbrellas, silk.

Vermilion.

Watches and parts thereof in common metal, nickel, or

silver.

Wines in wood or bottle, all kinds.

Wood or timber, hard.

All unenumerated articles completely manufactured.

CLASS V.

Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 20 per cent.

Amber.

Arms, fire-arms, fowling pieces, &c., imported under special

permit.

Artificial flowers. Birds' nests. Carpets, velvet.

Carriages,

Cochineal.

Coral, manufactured or not.

Embroideries iu gold, silver, or silk.

Enamel-ware.

Fireworks.

Furs, superior, as sable, sea otter, seal, otter, beaver, &c.

Ginseng, red, white, crude, and clarified.

Hair ornaments, gold and silver.

Incense, sticks.

Ivory, maunfactured or not.

Jade-ware.

Jewellery, real or imitation.

Lacquered-ware, superior.

Musk.

Pearls.

Perfumes and scents.

Plate, gold and silver,

Precious stones.

Rhinoceros horus.

Scented woods, all kinds.

Spices, all kinds.

Spirits and liqueurs in wood or bottle, all kinds.

Tobacco, all forms and kinds.

Tortoise shell, manufactured or not.

Velvet, silk.

Watches, and parts thereof, in gold and gilt. Works of Art.

CLASS VI

Prohibited Goods.

Adulterated drugs or medicines.

Arms, munitions, and implements of war, as ordnance or cannon, shot and shell, fire-arms of all kinds, cartridges, side-arms, spears, or pikes, saltpetre, gun-powder, gun- cotton, dynamite, and other explosive substances. The Corean authorities will grant special permits for the importation of arms, fire-arms, and ammunition for pur- poses of sport or self defence, on satisfactory proof being furnished to them of the bonâ fide character of the appli- cation.

Counterfeit coins, all kinds.

Opium, except medicinal opium.

Foreign ships, when sold in Corea, will pay a duty of 25 cents per ton on sailing vessels, and 50 cents per toy on

steamers.

(L.S.)

(L.S.)

HARRY S. PARKES.

Signature in Chinese of MIN YÖNG-MOK,

Corean Plenipotentiary.