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Smuggling from China into Hong-kong.
Chefoo Agreement and this Additional Article to be ratified together.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE (LONDON).
9. It is understood that the Commission provided for in Clause 7 of Section III of the Chefoo Agreement to inquire into the question of the prevention of smuggling into China from Hongkong shall be appointed as soon as possible.
10. The Chefoo Agreement, together with, and as modified by, the present Additional Article, shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible.
Done at London, in quadruplicate (two in English and two in Chinese), this 18th day of July, 1885, being the 7th day of the 6th moon in the 11th year of the reign of Kwang-Sü.
4.--OPIUM CONVENTION.
AGREEMENT between Her Majesty's Consul at Tientsin, the Puisne Judge of Hongkong, the Inspector-General of Customs, and the Joint Commissioners for China, respecting the Opium Trade at Hongkong. Signed at Hongkong, 11th September, 1886.
MEMORANDUM of the Bases of Agreement arrived at after discussion between Mr. Byron Brenan, Her Majesty's Consul at Tientsin, Mr. James Russell, Puisne Judge of Hongkong, and Sir Robert Hart, K.C.M.G., Inspector-General of Customs, and Shao Tao-Tai, Joint Commissioners for China, in pursuance of Article 7, section III, of the Agreement between Great Britain and China signed at Chefoo on the 13th September, 1876, and of section 9 of the Additional Article to the said Agreement signed at London on the 18th July, 1885.
Mr. Russell undertakes that the Government of Hongkong shall submit to the Legislative Council an Ordinance for the regulation of the trade of the Colony in raw opium, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth and providing—
1. For the prohibition of the import and export of opium in quantities less than one chest.*
2. For rendering illegal the possession of raw opium, its custody or control in quantities less than one chest, except by the opium farmer.
3. That all opium arriving in the Colony be reported to the Harbour Master, and that no opium shall be transshipped, landed, stored or removed from one store to another, or re-exported, without a permit from the Harbour Master and notice to the opium farmer.
A modification allowing export in smaller quantities than one chest was subsequently agreed upon. [cf. Hertslet's China Treaties, Vol. I p. 90.]
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Smuggling from China into Hong- kong.
Chefoo Agreement and this Additional
Article to be ratified together.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE (LONDON).
9. It is understood that the Commission provided for in Clause 7 of Section III of the Chefoo Agreement to inquire into the question of the prevention of smuggling into China from Hongkong shall be appointed as soon as possible.
10. The Chefoo Agreement, together with, and as modified by, the present Additional Article, shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible.
Done at London, in quadruplicate (two in English and two in Chinese), this 18th day of July, 1885, being the 7th day of the 6th moon in the 11th year of the reign of Kwang-Sü.
4.--OPIUM CONVENTION.
AGREEMENT between Her Majesty's Consul at Tientsin, the Puisne Judge of Hongkong, the Inspector-General of Customs, and the Joint Commissioners for China, respecting the Opium Trade at Hongkong. Signed at Hongkong, 11th September, 1886.
MEMORANDUM of the Bases of Agreement arrived at after discussion between Mr. Byron Brenan, Her Majesty's Consul at Tientsin, Mr. James Russell, Puisne Judge of Hongkong, and Sir Robert Hart, K.C.M.G., Inspector-General of Customs, and Shao Tao- Tai, Joint Commissioners for China, in pursuance of Article 7, section III, of the Agreement between Great Britain and China signed at Chefoo on the 13th September, 1876, and of section 9 of the Additional Article to the said Agreement signed at London on the 18th July, 1885.
Mr. Russell undertakes that the Government of Hongkong shall sub- mit to the Legislative Council an Ordinance for the regulation of the trade of the Colony in raw opium, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth and providing—
1. For the prohibition of the import and export of opium in quantities less than one chest.*
2. For rendering illegal the possession of raw opium, its custody or control in quantities less than one chest, except by the opium farmer.
3. That all opium arriving in the Colony be reported to the Harbour Master, and that no opium shall be transshipped, landed, stored or removed from one store to another, or re-exported, without a permit from the Harbour Master and notice to the opium farmer.
A modification allowing export in smaller quantities than one chest was sub-
sequently agreed upon. [cf. Hertslet's China Treaties, Vol. I p. 90.]
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