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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH MAY, 1876.

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liable to this fine. When a part of the cargo shall be declared for re-exportation the specification must be made on the manifest. The ship shall be security for all the fines incurred during the course of these operations. She will be allowed to sail from the port only after the full payment of these fines.

ART. 8.

Only under special leave, no shipping or landing cargo or ballast, can take place, without the anchorage limits, and only from sun rise to sun set, Sundays and feast days are excepted.

ART. 9.

Within the twenty four hours from the time the captain shall have handed to the French Consul the ship's papers, the Consul shall send to the custom house in duplicate a detailled list; giving the name of the ship, the crews list, the legal tonnage of the ship, and the cargo list.

Fire arms and war ammunitions that merchant ships may have on board for their own use and safety, must be declared number by number on the ship's papers, at the same time that the figures of the cargo, at their arrival in the port or to the custom house; after that the Consul shall have handed to the custom house the detailled list, the surveyor of the custom house department shall deliver the order for landing, under reservation that the goods landed cannot be taken away, under a penalty of a fine varying from fifty to five hundred dollars, according to the case, only after the proof that the duties claimed have been paid.

ART. 10.

The goods shall be verified on a designate place, according to the Consul's detailled list, and the custom house officer shall have the liberty of asking for the opening of the cases, casks, bales and other colis, and to ask for them to be weighed, in case that the specification given by the Consul's list should seemed insufficient or incorret.

ART. 11.

After the expiration of the two days specified in the articles 6 and 9 and before the landing is to take place, every merchant ship shall be bound to pay the full amount of duties for light house and anchorage, already fixed by article 3 of the treaty.

ART. 12.

Every exporter of goods shall be obliged before beginning the discharging to make a declaration of the said to the French Consulate, which shall send the detailled list to the custom house, where an order for shipping shall be delivered.

The custom house surveyor shall afterwards proceed to the inspection of the goods according to the terms prescribed for the entries.

ART. 13.

When the ship shall have finished her loading, the captain or the consignee shall be bound to deposit to the custom house a detailled manifest of the export cargo. The captain who shall deposit a false manifest shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

ART. 14.

All cargo landed or shipped without an order from the custom house shall be liable to seizure; and also all goods shipped from a ship to another without a special order. These infringements shall be subject to a penalty of a fine varying from fifty to five hundred dollars.

ART. 15.

No captain of a merchant ship, can receive his papers and sail from the port, if he has not proved to the Consul that all the custom house duties have been fulfilled, and that the amount of duties have been paid to the full amount.

ART. 16.

For the goods carried from one place to another in the chinese province of Yunnan towards the sea, or from the sea to Yunnan, the duties shall be received by the first Annamite custom house.

Concerning merchant ships sailing to Yunnan, the captain or his supercargo, shall deliver the ship's papers, manifests and bills of lading, to the Consul at Hai-phong, who shall send without delay to the custom house office, a detailled list of the goods on which the duties are to be paid according to the indications registered on this list.

But in case of suspicion of fraud, the custom house shall have the liberty of ordering the landing of the goods in order to have them examined. When the duties shall have been paid in the hands of the Annamite officer, the custom house shall state to the fact by a certificate which production shall be sufficient to establish that the duties on the said goods have been paid, and that there is nothing to be claimed for their exportation.