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GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND (continued)

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(9) Oilskins and similar oiled goods, carbon paper and oiled paper.

mission of other kinds of carbon paper is prohibited. Note: Oilskins and similar oiled goods are admitted by parcel post only on the condition that each parcel is accompanied by a certificate signed by a responsible person and having the following tenor: "Any oilskins or similar oil goods contained in this parcel have been stoved at a temperature of 140 degrees F. for at least 8 hours and afterwards cured for not less than 1 month before being packed."

Note: Carbon paper coated with wax and not containing any oxidizable oily or fatty substance is admitted on the condition the sender indicates the Carbon paper contents on the customs declaration in the following form: coated with wax and not containing any oxidizable oily or fatty substance. (10) Live animals, with the exception of bees, leeches, and silkworms placed in

well-constructed boxes.

(11) Tobacco stalks, manufactured or not, tobacco-stalk flour, and preparations.

of snuff except by permission of the Commissioner of Customs.

(12) Cut and pressed tobacco and tobacco containing other substances.

(13) Saccharine, mixtures containing saccharine and other substances of a similar

nature or use.

(14) Extracts, essences, or other concentrations of coffee, chicory, tea or tobacco

or other mixtures of those products.

(15) Articles bearing on the outside or in the address words, letters or marks (employed without formal authorization) indicating or permitting the addressee to believe that the said articles relate to Her Majesty's Service.

(16) Articles bearing on the outside or in the address words, marks or designs (drawings) which, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, might embarrass the post office staff called upon to handle such articles.

(17) Circulars.

(18) Fictitious stamps and dies, plates, instruments, or materials intended for the

manufacture of such stamps.

(19) Coins coined in a foreign country, other than gold or silver unless they are shown to the satisfaction of the customs authorities to have a curiosity value in excess of their bullion value.

(20) Coin, precious stones, jewellery, and any articles of gold, silver, and platinum in uninsured parcels. Coins of a value higher than £5 ($80) (except with a declaration indicating that they are intended to serve as ornaments), gold in ingots of a value higher than £5, and silver in ingots or silver partially worked of a value higher than £50. Exceptionally coins are admitted up to the value of £75 in insured parcels.

(21) All advertisements published by or on behalf of any fortune teller; all advertisements of gambling houses; all advertisements or coupons coming from a football enterprise in which bets are made in cash.

(22) Sealskins, except those of accepted origins.

(23) The importation of the plumage of any birds, with the exception of those coming from African ostriches, eider ducks, the Rhea Rothschildi, the common jay, the common magpie, the common starling, the Java sparrow, the West African curly parrakeet, the Chinese bustard, the golden pheasant, the common cormorant, the common shag (or crested cormorant), and birds ordinarily used for food in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is prohibited except by authorization of the British Board of Trade.

(24) Articles which, by virtue of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, must bear a mark indicating the name of the country or origin at the time of importation, unless they are marked in the prescribed manner. This applies to such articles as rubber tyres and tubes, pottery, insulated electric cables and wires, electric incandescent lamps, ball and roller bearings, flame safety lamps and parts, applies, currants, sultanas and raisins, eggs in shell, dried eggs, oat products, and gramophone records.

(25) Processed milk, unless sent as an unsolicited gift, may require the production by the addressee of a licence issued by the British Board of Trade, or a