TREATY OF TIENTSIN.
they shall be settled in the manner pointed out in the clause of this Treaty having reference to articles which pay duty ad valorem.
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XLV. British merchants who may have imported merchandise into any of the open ports, and paid the duty thereon, if they desire to re-export the same, shall be entitled to make application to the Superintendent of Customs, who, in order to prevent fraud on the revenue, shall cause examination to be made by suitable officers, to see that the duties paid on such goods, as entered in the Custom-House books, correspond with the representation made, and that the goods remain with their original marks unchanged. He shall then make a memorandum of the port-clearance of the goods, and of the amount of duties paid, and deliver the same to the merchant, and shall also certify the facts to the Officers of Customs of the other ports. All which being done, on the arrival in port of the vessel in which the goods are laden, everything being found on examination there to correspond, she shall be permitted to break bulk, and land the said goods, without being subject to the payment of any additional duty thereon. But if, on such examination, the Superintendent of Customs shall detect any fraud on the revenue in the case, then the goods shall be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.
British merchants desiring to re-export duty-paid imports to a foreign country shall be entitled, on complying with the same conditions as in the case of re-exportation to another port in China, to a drawback certificate, which shall be a valid tender to the Customs in payment of import or export duties.
Foreign grain brought into any port of China in a British ship, if no part thereof has been landed, may be re-exported without hindrance.
against fraud
XLVI. The Chinese authorities at each port shall adopt the means they may judge most proper to prevent the revenue suffering from fraud or smuggling.
XLVII. British merchant-vessels are not entitled to resort to other than the ports of trade declared open by this Treaty. They are not to enter other ports in China, or to carry on clandestine trade along the coasts thereof. Any vessel violating this provision shall, with her cargo, be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.
opened by Treaty liable to confiscation. Goods on British
XLVIII. If any British merchant vessel be concerned in smuggling, the goods, whatever their value or nature, shall be subject to confiscation by the Chinese authorities, and the ship may be prohibited from trading further, and sent away as soon as her account shall have been adjusted and paid.
Penalties
tions to
and confiscation the belong to
XLIX. All penalties enforced, or confiscations made, under this Treaty shall belong and be appropriated to the public service of Government of China,
Chinese Government
TREATY OF TIENTSIN.
they shall be settled in the manner pointed out in the clause of this Treaty having reference to articles which pay duty ad valorem.
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XLV. British merchants who may have imported merchandise into Re-exporta- any of the open ports, and paid the duty thereon, if they desire to tion of duty-
Faid goods. re-export the same, shall be entitled to make application to the Superin- tendent of Customs, who, in order to prevent fraud on the revenue, shall cause examination to be made by suitable officers, to see that the duties paid on such goods, as entered in the Custom-House books, correspond with the representation made, and that the goods remain with their original marks unchanged. He shall then make a memorandum of the port-clearance of the goods, and of the amount of duties paid, and deliver the same to the merchant, and shall also certify the facts to the Officers of Customs of the other ports. All which being done, on the arrival in port of the vessel in which the goods are laden, everything being found on examination there to correspond, she shall be permitted to break bulk, and land the said goods, without being subject to the payment of any additional duty thereon. But if, on such examination, the Superintendent of Customs shall detect any fraud on the revenue in the case, then the goods shall be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.
British merchants desiring to re-export duty-paid imports to a foreign Drawback country shall be entitled, on complying with the same conditions as certificates. in the case of re-exportation to another port in China, to a drawback certificate, which shall be a valid tender to the Customs in payment of import or export duties.
Foreign grain brought into any port of China in a British ship, if no Foreign
grain. part thereof has been landed, may be re-exported without hindrance.
against fraud
XLVI. The Chinese authorities at each port shall adopt the means Preventions they may judge most proper to prevent the revenue suffering from fraud and smug- or smuggling.
ing with ports not
gling. British XLVII. British merchant-vessels are not entitled to resort to other vessels trad- than the ports of trade declared open by this Treaty. They are not unlawfully to enter other ports in China, or to carry on clandestine trade along the coasts thereof. Any vessel violating this provision shall, with her cargo, be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.
opened by Treaty liable to confis- cation. Goods on British
concerned in
XLVIII. If any British merchant vessel be concerned in smuggling, the goods, whatever their value or nature, shall be subject to confiscation vessels found by the Chinese authorities, and the ship may be prohibited from smuggling trading further, and sent away as soon as her account shall have been liable to con- adjusted and paid.
fiscation.
Penalties
tions to
and confisca- the belong to
XLIX. All penalties enforced, or confiscations made, under this Treaty shall belong and be appropriated to the public service of Government of China,
Chinese Government
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