ADDITIONAL ARTICLE (LONDON)

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE (LONDON)

3.-ADDITIONAL ARTICLE (LONDON.)

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE to the Agreement between Great Britain and
China, signed at Chefoo on the 13th September, 1876. Signed at
London, 18th July, 1885.

[Ratifications exchanged at London, May 6, 1886.]

The Governments of Great Britain and of China, considering that the
arrangements proposed in clauses 1 and 2 of Section III of the Agree-
ment between Great Britain and China, signed at chefoo on the 13th
September, 1876 (hereinafter referred to as the ' Chefoo Agreement
in relation to the area within which U-kin ought not to be collected on
foreign goods at the open ports, and to the definition of the foreign
Settlement area, require further consideration

Also that the terms of clause 3 of the same section are not sufficiently
explicit to serve as an efficient regulation for the traffic in Opium, and
recognizing the desirability of placing restrictions on the consumption
of Opium, have agreed to the present Additional Article.





1. As regards the arrangements above referred to and proposed in
clauses 1 and 2 of Section III of the Chefoo Agreement, it is agreed that
they be reserved for further consideration between the two Goverrinients.

2. In lieu of the arrangement respecting Opium proposed in clause 3
of Section 111 or the Cliefoo Agreenient, it is agyeed that foreign Opium.
when. imported into China, sliall be taken cognizance of by the Im-
perial Maritline Customs, atid shall be deposited in bond, either in
warehouses or receiving-hulks which have been approved of by the
Customs, and that it shall not be removed thence until there shall have
been paid to the Custoirts the tariff duty of 30 taels per chest of 100
catties, and also a sulii not exceeding 80 taels per like chest as li-kin.

3. It is agreed that, the aforesaid iniport and li-kin duties having
been paid, the owlier sliall be allo-xed to have the Opium repacked in
bolid wider the supervisiou of the Custoins, aiid put into packages of
such assorfed sizes as lie inq v select froin such sizes as shall have been
agreed upon by the Customs authorities and British Consul at the port
of entry.

The Customs shall then, if required, issue gratuitously to the owner a
transit certificate for each such package, or one for any number of pack-
ages, at the option of the owner.

Such. certificate shall free the Opium to which it applies from the
imposition of any further tax or duty whilst in transport in the interior,
provided that the package has not beeii opened, and that the Customs'
seal, marks, aud numbers on the packages have not been effaced or
tampered with.

Such certificate shall have validit only in the hands of Chinese Sub
jects, and shall not entitle foreigners to convey any Opium
in which the may be interested into the interor.

4. It is agreed that the Regulations under which the said certificates
are to be issued shall be the same for all the ports, and that the form
shall be as follows:-

Opiton Transit Certificate.

This is to certify that Tariff and li-kin duties at the rate of
taels per chest of 100 catties have been paid on the Opium inarked and
numbered as under; and that, in conformity with the Additional Article
sigtied at London the 18th July, 1885, and appended to the Agreement
between China and Great Britain signed at Chefoo the 13th September,
1876, and approved by the Imperial Decree printed on the back hereof,
the production of this certificate will exempt the Opium to which it refers,
wherever it may bc found, from the iniposition of any further tax or duty





whatever, provided that the packages are unbroken, and the Customs'
seals, marks and numbers have not been effaced or tampered with.

'Mark No.
X ___ 00 packages.
'Port of entry
'Date

'Signature of commissioncr of customs.'

5. The Chinese Government undertakes that when the package shall
have been opened at the place of consumptiou the Opium shall not be
subject to any tax or contriubtion, direct or indirect,other than or in
excess of such tax or contribution as is or may hereafter be levied on
native Opium.

In the event of such tax or contibuiton being calculated ad valorem
the same rate, value for value, shall be assessed on ofreign and native
Opium, and in ascertaining for this purpose the value of foreign Opium
the amount paid on it for li-king at the poart of entry shall be deducted
from its market value.

6.It is agreed that the persent Additional Article shall be considered
as forming part of the chefoo Agreement, and that it shall have the same
force and validity as if it were inserted therin word for word.

It shall comeinto operation six months after its signature, provided
the retifications have been exhanged, or if they have not, then on the date
at which sch exchange takes place.

7. The arrangement respecting Opium contained in the present
Additional Article shall remian binding for four years, after the expirea-
tion of which period either Government may at any time give twelve
mouths notice of its desire to terminate it, and such notice bieing given,
it shall terminate accordingly.

It is, however, agreed that the Government of Great Britian shall have
the right to terminate the same at any time, should the transit certificate
be found not to ocnfer on the Opium complete exemption from all tasation
whatsoever whilst being carried from the port of entry to the place of
comsumption in the interior.

In the event of the termination of the present additional Article the
arrangement with regard to Opium now in force under the Regulations
attached to the Treaty of Tientsin shall revive.

8. the Hight Contracting Parties may, by common consent, adopt any
modifications of the providions of the present Additional Article which
experience may show to be desirable.
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 Hong kong shall be appointed
as soon as possible.

10. the chefoo Agreement, together with, and as modified by, the
present Additional Article, shall be retified, and the ratifications shall be
exchanged at London as soon as possible.

Done at London, in quardruplicate (two inenglish and two in Chinese,
this 18th day of July 1885, being the 7th day of the 6th moon in the
11th years of the reign of Kwang-Su.
Area within which li-kin ought not to be collected on foreign goods. Traffic in Opium. Treatment of foreign Opium on its importation into China. Import and li-kin Dutes. Repacking in Bond. Transhit Certificate. No transport duty to be levied. Certificates only valid in Chinese hands. Regulations respecting issue of Transit Certificates. Respecting taxation of Opium on opening of the packages at place of consumption. Additional Article to from part of Chefoo Agreement. Date of coming into operation. Duration of Additional Article. Right of Great Britain to terminate Additional Article in event of certificate not exempting Opium from taxation. Opium regualtions of 1858 to revive in event of termination of present Additional Articles. Additional Article may be modified. Smuggling from China into Hongkong. Chefoo Agreement and this Additional Articles to be ratified together.

Area within which li-kin ought not to be collected on foreign goods. Traffic in Opium. Treatment of foreign Opium on its importation into China. Import and li-kin Dutes. Repacking in Bond. Transhit Certificate. No transport duty to be levied. Certificates only valid in Chinese hands. Regulations respecting issue of Transit Certificates. Respecting taxation of Opium on opening of the packages at place of consumption. Additional Article to from part of Chefoo Agreement. Date of coming into operation. Duration of Additional Article. Right of Great Britain to terminate Additional Article in event of certificate not exempting Opium from taxation. Opium regualtions of 1858 to revive in event of termination of present Additional Articles. Additional Article may be modified. Smuggling from China into Hongkong. Chefoo Agreement and this Additional Articles to be ratified together.

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