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No. 69.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SтH APRIL, 1876.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notification from Sir BROOKE ROBERTSON, C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, Canton, is published for general information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th April, 1876.
CONSULAR NOTIFICATION.
The undersigned hereby notifies that, in accordance with the Eleventh Article of the Treaty of Tientsin, the Port of Kiungehow, in the Island of Hainan, is opened to British Trade on and after the date hereof.
Annexed is a copy of Notification from Her Majesty's Minister in China, by which, the Island of Hainan is included within the Consular District of Canton, and the jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Vice- Consul therein defined; and also a copy of the Custom House Regulations under which Foreign Trade will, for the present, be conducted.
(Signed,) B. BOBERTSON,
Kiungchow in Hainan, 1st April, 1876.
True Copy,
Annex No. 1.
(Copy.)
COLIN M. FORD.
Consul.
By virtue of the Authority vested in me as Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, I have included the Island of Hainan, situated on the coast of China, in the dominions of the Emperor of China, within the Consular District of Canton, whereof Sir DANIEL BROOKE ROBERTSON, Knight, C.B., is Her Majesty's Consul, and whereas it is expedient to appoint a person to act temporarily as and for the said Sir DANIEL BROOKE ROBERTSON, C.B., within the said Island of Hainan, now a portion of the Consular District of Canton, I do therefore approve Mr. ROBERT JAMES FORREST to act as Vice-Consul within the said Island, and I authorize him within the same to hold and form a Court and to exercise all the power and authority which a person so acting temporarily may exercise under the 25th Section of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865.
Annex No. 2. (Copy)
(Signed,)
THOMAS FRANCIS WADE.
Ship's Papers.
Import Manifest.
Applications to land Cargo.
Applications to ship Cargo.
Exclusion of Cargo.
Export Manifest.
Payment of Duties.
PROVISIONAL CUSTOM HOUSE AND HARBOUR
REGULATION FOR KIUNGCHOW.
I. Masters must deposit their Ship's Papers and Manifest with their Consul (if they have no Consul, with the Customs, or with the Consul of some other Nation) within 48 hours after entering the Port.
II. The Import Manifest must contain a true Account of the nature of the Cargo on board, and must be handed to the Customs before any application to break bulk can be attended to.
III. The Import Manifest having been received, and the Ship's Papers duly lodged with the Consul or the Customs, Permits to land goods will be granted on the receipt of applications specifying the number of packages, with their marks, weight, quantity and such like particulars.
IV. Before shipment of goods, Permits to ship must in like manner be obtained.
V. Cargo for which a Permit has been issued, but which cannot be received on board, must be brought to the Custom House jetty for examination before being relanded.
VI. When a vessel has received on board the whole of her outward cargo, the Customs must be furnished with an Export Manifest.
VII. After examination of goods, Consignees or Shippers will be supplied with a Memo., for which early application should be made, of the Duties payable.
They may then pay in the amount to the Haikwan Bank or Receiving Office, when they will be furnished with a Duty Receipt in Chinese, which they must bring to the Customs. Import Duties are due upon the landing of the goods and Export Duties on their shipment.
Amendment in respect of weights or value must be made within 24 hours after the landing or shipment of the goods.
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