The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-27
RULE /.
Unenumerated Goods.

RULE I.
Unenumerated Goods.
Articles not enumerated in the list of exports,
but enumerated in the list of imports when eT-
ported, shall pay the amount of duty set against
them in the list of imports and similarly articles
not enumerated in the list of imports, but enum-
Grated in the list Of imports, but enumerated in
the list of exports, when imported, will pay the
amount of duty set against them in the list of
ports.
Articles not enumerated in either list, nor in
the list of duty free goods, shall pay an ad va
loren duty of five per cent, calculated upon their
market value.
RULE II.
Duty Free Goods.
Gold and silver bullion, foreign coins, flour, In
dian meal, sago, biscuit, preserved meats and
vegetables.
Cheese, butter, confectionery
Foreign clothing, jewery, plat ed ware, perfum-
cry, soap of all kinds.
Charcoal firewood candles, (foreign,) tobacco,
foreign,) cigars, (foreign)
Wine, beer, spirits, household stores, ships.
stores, personal baggage, stationery, carpeting,
druggetting, cutlery, foreign medicines, and glass
and crystal ware
port duty; bnt, if transported into the interior
will, with the exception of personal baggage,
gold and silver bullion, and foreign coins, pay
transit duty at the rate of two and half per cent
ad valorem.
A freight part freight of duty free goods
personad non 6aggage god and and silver & bullion M and
carrying them, though other be on board, liable
to tonnage dues.
Contraband Goods.
Import and export trade is alike prohibited in
the following articles:
muskets pistols, and all other munitions and i'm
plements of war, and salt.
RULE ".
Weights and Measures.
In the calculations of the tariff the weight of a
pecul of one hundred catties is held to be equal
to hundred and thirty three and one third
pounds avoirdupois, and the length of a chang of
ten Chinese feet to be equal to one hundred and
forty one English inches.
Cne Chinese chih is held to equal fourteen and
one tenth inches English, and four yards English,
less three inches, to equal one chang
RULE v.
Regarding certain Commodities heretofore Con
traband.
The restrictions affecting trade in opium, cash.
grain, pulse, sulphur, birthstone, saltpetre, and
spelter, are relaxed uuder the following condi-
tions:
1. Opium will henceforth pay thirty taels per
pecul import dutp. The importer will sell it only
at the port. 1t will be carried into the interior
by Chinese only as Chinese property; the foreign
trader will not be allowed to accompany it. The
provision of the treaty of Tientsin, comforting
privileges by virtue of the most favored clause,
so far as respects citizens of the United States
going into the interior to trade paying transit
duties, shall not extend to the article of opium,
the transit duties on which will be arranged as
the Chineee Government see fit; nor in future re-
visions of the tariff is the same rule of revision
to be applied to opium as to other goods.
2. Copper cash.-The export Of cash to any
foreign port is prohibited; but it shall be lawful
for citizens of the United States to ship it at one
of the open ports of China to another on COM
pliance with the following regulation: The ship
per shall give notice of the amount of cash he
desires to ship, and the ports of its destination,
and shall bind himself, either by bond with two
sufficient sureties, or by despositing such other
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factory, to return, within six months from the
date of clearance to the collector at the port of
Acknowledgements thereon of the receipt of cash
at the port of destination by the collector at that
port, who shall thereto afix his seal; or, failing
the production of the certificate to forfeit sum
equal in value to the cash shipped.
Cash will pay no duty inwards or outwards but
a freight or part-freight of cash. though no other
cargo be on board will render the vessel carrying
it liable to tonnage dues.
8. The export of rice and all other grains what
soever, native or foreign, no matter where grown
or whence imported, to any foreign port, is pro-
hibited but these commodities may be carried
by citizens of the United States from one of the
open ports of China to another, under the same
conditions in respect to security cash, on pay
ment at the port of shipment of the duty speci-
fled in the tariff
No import dnty shall be levyable upon rice or
grain, but freight part freight of rice or grain,
though no other cargo be on board, will render
the vessel importing it liable to tonnage dues.
export 8f and bean cake
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American flag is prohibited. From any of the
other open ports they may be shipped, on pay.
ment OF the tariff duty, either to other ports of
s. Salpetre, sulphur, rhinestone, and spelter,
being deemed by the Chinese to be munitions of
war, shall not be imported by citizens of the Uni
ted States save at the requisition of the Chinese
government, or for sale to Chinese duly authori-
zed to purchase them. No permit to land them
shall be issued until the customs have proof that
the necessary authority has been given to the pur-
chaser 1t shall not be lawful for citizens of the
United States to carry these commodities up the
Yang stz Kiang, or into any port other than those
open at the sea-board, nor to accompany them
must be sold at the ports only and, except at the
ports, they will be regarded as Chinese property
Infractions of the conditions. as above set FORTH
under which trade in opium, cash, grain, pulse,
sulphur, birthstone, saltpetre, and spelter may be
henceforward carried on, will be punishable by
confiscation of all the goods concerned.
Liability Of Vessels Entering Port.
For the prevention of misunderstanding, it is
agreed that American vessels must be reported to
the Consul within twenty-four hours, counting
from the time the vessel comes within the limits
of the port and that the same rule be applied to
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