Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-12

other ports of China or to foreign countries.
8. Saltpetre, sulphur, birthstone, and spelt-
er, being deemed by the Chinese to be NUM-
tons of war, shall not be imported by citi-
zens of the United States save at the requisi-
ton OF the Chinese government, or for sale to
Chinese duly authorized to purchase them.
No permit to land them shall be issued until
the customs have proof that the necessary au-
thority has been given to the purchaser. 1t
shall not be lawful for citizens of the United
States to carry these commodities up the
Yang-tsi-Kiang, or into any other port other
than those open on the seaboard, nor to ac-
company them into the interior on behalf of
Chinese. They must be sold at the ports
only, and except at the ports, they will be re-
garded as Chinese property.
lntractiOns of the conditions, as above set
forth, under which trade in opium, cash,
grain, pulse, sulphur, birthstone, saltpetre,
and spelter may be hencetorward carried on,
will be punishable by confscation of all the
goods concerned
RULE VI.
Liability of UeSSelS entering port.
For the prevention of misunderstanding, it
is agreed that American vessels must be re-
ported to the consul within twenty hours,
counting from the time the vessel comes with
in the limits of the port, and that the same
rule be applied to the forty eight hours al
lowed by article 10 of the treaty to remain in
port without payment of tonnage dues.
The limits of the ports shall be defined by
the customs, with all consideration for the
convenience of trade, compatible with due
protection of the revenue; Also the limits
of the anchorages within which lading and
discharging are permitted by the customs, and
the same shall be notified to the consuls for
public information.
RULE VII.
Transit Dues.
1t is agreed that the amount of transit dues
legally leyyable upon merchandise imported
or exported shall be one half the tariff duties,
except in the case of the duty free goods LA
BILE to transit duty of two and half per cent
ad ralorem, as provided in No. of these
rules.
Merchandise shall be cleared of its transit
dues under the following regulations
In the case of imports. Notice being given
at the port of entry from which the imports
are to be forwarded inland Of the nature and
quantity of the goods, the ship from which
they have been landed, and the place inland
to which they are bound, with all other neces-
sary particulars, the collector of customs shall
on due inspection made, and on receipt of the
transit duty due, issue a transit duty certifi-
cate. This must be produced at every barrier
station, and viseed. No further duty will be
levyable upon imports so certified, no matter
how distant the place of their destination
In the case of exports. Produce purchased
by a citizen of the United States in the interi-
or will be inspected and taken account of at
the first barrier it passes on its way to the port
of shipment. A memorandum, showing the
amount of the produce, and the port at which
it is to be shipped, will be deposited there by
the person in charge Of the produce. He will
then receive certificate, which must be ex-
hibited and viseed at every barrier on his way
| to the port of shipment. On the arrival of the
| produce at the barrier nearest the port no.
tice must be given to the customs at the port,
and the transit dues due thereon being paid it
will be passed. On expectation the produce
will pay the tariff duty.
Any attempt to pass goods inwards or out
wards, otherwise than in competence with the
rule here laid down, viii render them liable
| to confscation. Unauthorized sale IN tran
Stto of goods that have been entered as above
| for port will render them liable to confisca-
| ton. Any attempt to pass goods in excess
of the quantity specified in the certificate will
render all the goods of the same denomination
named in the certificate liable to cOnfscation.
Permission to export produce which cannot
be proved to have paid its transit dues will be
refused by the customs until the transit
dues shall have been paid.
RULE VIII.
Trade with the Capital
1t is agreed that no citizen of the United
States shall have the privilege of entering the
capital city of Peking for the purposes of
trade.
RULE TX.
LII. L.