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 144 PUBLIC TREATIES. Rum 0 RULE II. Dutyiee goods. Goods duty free. Gold and silver bullion, foreign coins, Hour, Indian-meal, sago, biscuit, preserved i meats, uml vegetable? Cheese vu ter, con ec lone y. _ Foreign clothing, jewelry, plated jvure, perfumery, soap of u1l kings. Charcoal, firewood, candles, (foreign,)  (foreign,) cigars, ( ormgné Wine, beer, spirits, household stores, ship s stores, personal baggage, sto mnery, emipeting, druggetiug, cutlery, foreign medicines, and glass and cryst wore.      The above commodities pay no import or export duty; but, if trqusportz into the interior, will, with the exception of personal baggage, gold and silver bu hon, and forei coins, pay a transit duty at the mte of two and a half per cent. ad  valoremt A geight or part freight of duty-free goods (personal baggage, gold and silver bullion, and foreign coins excepted) will render the vessel carrying them, though no other cargo be on board, liable to tonnage dues. Rub 3 RULE HI. Contrabaud goods., I t d t trad 's l'ke robibitad in e following articles:  contraband G"rih(>lov:¤ii¤r,(l1Io(tf 031111021: fgwiling-pieces, riilesfinuskets, pistols, and all other mumtions aud implements of war, and salt. Rule 4 Rum IV. Weigh ta and meaaurca. W ei g h t s and In the calculations of the tariff the weight of s. pecul of one hundred eatties is held measures. to be equal to one hundred and thirty-three and 0ue·third pounds swonrdupois, and the ` length of ax chang of ten Chinese feet to be equal to one hundred sud forty-one English inches. One Chinese chih is held to equal fourteen sud one-tenth inches English, and four yards English, less three inches, to equal one chang. Rule 5. RULE V. Regarding certain commodities heretofore amtraband. · · _ The restrictions oiecting trade in opium cosh grain, pulse sulphur brimstone saltlaxlzitggiilous r G pefre, 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 of the port. It will be carried iuto the interior by Chinese only, and only us Chinese property; the foreign trader will not be allowed to accompany it. The provision of the treaty of Tien-tsiu, conferring riviloges by virtue of the most favored clause, so far as respects citizens of the United Ebates 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. coppm. can 2. Copper cqah.—The export of cash to any foreign port is prohibited; but it shpll 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 reiulationz The shipper shall give notice of the amount of cash he desires to ship, and t as 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 the cash at the port of destination by the collector ot that port, who shall thereto utlix 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 mwards or outwards, but a freight, or part freight of cash, ghough no other cargo be on board, will render the vessel carrying it liable to tonnage ues. Itice and other 3. The export of rice and all other grains whatsoever, native or foreign, no matter grzuns. where grown or whence imported, to any foreign port, is prohibited; but these commoyhties may be carried by citizens of the United States from one of the open ports of Chmn to another, under the some conditions in respect of security as cash, on payment at the port of shipment of the duty specified in the tariff No unport duty shall be levyable upon rice or rain, but u freight or part freight of rncohonigtgin, thozgh no other cargo be on boarcg will render the vessel importing it 13 e 0 unage ues. Palm and hmm 4. Pulsc.—~’l‘he export of pulse and beau cake from Tang-Chem, and Nin~Chw=mg, cakm unner the Americau Ha.? is prohibited. From any of the other open ports they may be slgiggeokon payment o the tant? duty, either to other ports of Chino or to foreign me. Sgltpotrg, B u1- 5. Sgnltpetre, sulphur, brimstope, and sgelmrn being deemed by the Chinese to be pbur, sw, munitions of wor, shell not be nnnorted y citizens of the United States save of the requisition of the Chinese Government, or for sale to Chinese duly authorized to purchase them. No permit to lund them shall be issued until the customs have proof that