1078 CONVENTION WITH CI;IINA. Novmui-mr: 8, 1858. RULE V. hxkszfildivnsw Regarding certain Oommodities heretofore Oonrraband. The restrictions affecting trade in opium, cash, grain, pulse, sulphur, brimstone, saltpetre, and spelter, are relaxed under the following conditions: Opium, 1. Opium will henceforth pay thirty taels per pecul import duty. The importer will sell it only at the port. It will be carried into the interior by Chinese only, and only as Chinese' property; the foreign trader will not be allowed to accompany it. The provision of the treaty of Tient~ sin, conferring privileges by virtue of the most favored clause, so far as respects citizens of the United States going into the interior to trade or paying transit duties, shall not extend to the article of opium, the transit duties on which will be arranged as the Chinese Government see fit; nor in future revisions of the tariff is the same rule of revision to be applied to opium as to other goods. 0¤P1>¤‘¢=¢=l¤, 2. Uogncr 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 compliance with the following regulation: The shipper shall give notice of the amount of cash he desires to ship, and the port of its destination, and shall bind himself; either by a bond with two sufficient sureties, or by depositing such other security as may be deemed by the customs satisfactory, to return, within six months from the date of clearance, to the collector at the port of shipment, the certificate issued by him, with an acknowledgment thereon of the receipt of cash at the port of destination by the collector at that port, who shall thereto aiiix his seal; or, failing the production of the certificate, to forfeit a sum equal in value to the cash shipped. Cash will pay no duty inwards or outwards but a freight, or partfreight of cash, though no other cargo be on board, will render the vessel carrying it liable to tonnage dues. Rice and other 3. The export of rice and all other grains whatsoever, native or for- |¤l¤¤» eign, no matter where grown or whence imported, to any foreign port, is prohibited; 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 as cash, on payment at the port of shipment of the duty specified in the tariff No import duty shall be levyable upon rice or grain, but a freight or part freight of rice or grain, though no other cargo be on board, will reuder the vessel importing it liable to tonnage dues. Pulse and 4. Pulse.-——The export of pulse and bean cake from Tang-Chau and l’°"“°‘k°· Nin-Chwang under the American flag is prohibited. From any of the other open ports they may be shipped, on payment of the tariff duty, either to other ports of China or to foreign countries. Sa1t§Au—e,su1- 5. Saltpetre, sulphur, brimstone, and spelter, being deemed by the Pl*“'· Chinese to be munitions of war, shall not be imported by citizens of the United States save at the requisition of the Chinese government, or for sale to Chinese duly authorized to purchase them. No permit to land them shall he issued until the customs have proof that the necessary authority has been given to the purchaser. It shall not be lawful for citizens of the United States to carry these commodities up the Yang-tsz- Kiang, or into any port other than those open on the sea-board, nor to accompany them into the interior on behalf of Chinese. They must be sold at the ports only, and, except at the ports, they will be regarded as Chinese property.
°: Infraetiglns of the conditions, as above set forth, under which trade in
c` °°¤ °¤¤ 0 opium, cas , grain, pulse, sul hur, brimstone, saltpetre, and s elter ma ’ EQ? °°°6'°“` be henceforward carried on, dill be punishable by coniiscationp of all thh goods concerned.
