ARTICLE V.

Tobacco, in all its forms, and tombac, together with salt, natron, hashish and saltpeter are excluded from the stipulations of this convention.

The Egyptian Government retains an absolute right in respect to these articles, the régime of which shall be applicable to Greek subjects on the same terms as to its own subjects.

The Egyptian Government may institute, in warehouses or dwellings, any immediate search that it may deem necessary. A duplicate of the order of search shall be sent to the Greek consular officer, who may repair to the spot at once, if he think proper, although that formality shall not delay the search.

ARTICLE VI.

By way of exception to the stipulations of article III., the importation into Egypt of arms used in war (including fire-arms and sidearms) and munitions of war shall not be permitted.

The above restriction does not apply to weapons used in hunting or for ornament or amusement, nor does it apply to gunpowder used in hunting; the importation of these articles shall form the subject of special regulations to be adopted by the Egyptian Government.

ARTICLE VII.

Goods imported into Egypt and re-exported within a period not exceeding six months, shall be considered as goods in transit, and shall pay, as such, only a transit duty of one per cent., computed on their value in the port of discharge. After such period of six months, they shall be subject to the full import duty.

If the re-exportation takes place from the port of discharge, after a simple transshipment, or after the goods have been discharged and kept on land, under surveillance, as provided by the customs regulations, for a period not exceeding one month, such goods shall be liable to no duty; but the transit duty shall be payable, if, after having been discharged and temporarily deposited, either in the warehouses of the custom-house, or in private warehouses, whether floating or not, the goods are reëxported, after having been the object of a commercial operation.

ARTICLE VIII.

If goods, after the import duty has been levied upon them in Egypt, are sent to other countries before the expiration of the term of six months from the day of their discharge, they shall be treated as goods in transit, and the Egyptian custom-house shall return to the exporter the difference between the duty paid and the transit duty mentioned in article VII.

In order to obtain the drawback, the exporter must furnish proof that the import duty has been paid on the re-exported goods.

ARTICLE IX.

The productions of the soil and industry of Egypt when sent to Greece, shall pay an export duty of one per cent. ad valorem, computed on the value of the goods in the port of exportation.

For greater facility, these productions shall, as far as possible, be periodically tariffed, by mutual agreement, by the representatives of the merchants engaged in the export trade and the Egyptian customs authorities.

ARTICLE X.

Articles and personal effects belonging to Consuls-General and Consuls not engaged in other than consular business, not performing other duties, not engaged in commercial or manufacturing business, and not owning or controlling real estate in Egypt, shall be exempt from any examination, both when imported and exported, and likewise from the payment of duties.

ARTICLE XI.

Within thirty-six hours at most after the arrival of a vessel in an Egyptian roadstead or port, the captain or the agent of the owners shall deposit at the custom-house two copies of the manifest of cargo, certified by him to agree with the original. In like manner, captains shall, before their departure from an Egyptian port, present at the custom-house a copy of the manifest of the goods on board of their vessels. The original manifest, either on arrival or departure, shall be presented at the same time with the copies, in order to be compared with them.

If a vessel stops in an Egyptian port for a reason that appears suspicious to the custom-house, the latter may require the presentation of the manifest, and may immediately make any search that it may deem necessary; the order of search shall, in that case, be addressed to the Greek consular officer, as provided in article V.

Any surplus or deficit that may be shown by the comparison of the manifest with the cargo shall furnish ground for the imposition of the fines provided for by the customs regulations which shall be issued by the Egyptian Government.

ARTICLE XII.

Any custom-house operation in Egypt, either on arrival or departure, must be preceded by a declaration signed by the owner of the goods or his representative.

The custom-house may, moreover, in case of dispute, require the presentation of all the documents that are to accompany any shipment of goods, such as invoices, letters, etc.

Any refusal to make the declaration on arrival or departure, any delay in making the said declaration, or any excess or deficiency found to exist between the goods and the declaration shall furnish ground for the imposition of the fines provided for by the Egyptian customhouse regulations, in each of the cases specified.

ARTICLE XIII.

The custom-house officers, the officers of the vessels belonging to the Egyptian postal-service, and the officers of national vessels, may board any sailing or steam-vessel of less than two hundred tons' burden, be

that vessel at anchor or tacking, at a distance not exceeding ten kilometers from the shore, without furnishing evidence of vis major; they may ascertain the nature of the cargo, seize any prohibited goods, and secure evidence of any other infraction of the customs regulations.

ARTICLE XIV.

Any illicit importation of goods shall furnish ground for the confiscations and fines provided for by the Egyptian customs regulations. Decisions ordering confiscations and fines shall be communicated, within the period fixed by law, to the Greek consular officer.

ARTICLE XV.

It is understood that this convention can in no wise impair the administrative rights of the two contracting Governments, and that they may enforce any regulations calculated to promote the efficiency of the service and the repression of fraud.

ARTICLE XVI.

The present convention shall be operative for seven years from the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four. At the expiration of that period, the present convention shall remain in force during the year following, and so on from year to year, until one of the contracting parties shall notify the other of its desire for the cessation of its effects, or until the conclusion of another convention.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

The effect of the modifications in the present tariff which are provided for in article IV., shall be suspended until those modifications have been adopted by the other powers interested.

In testimony wheerof, the undersigned have signed the present con

vention.

Done in duplicate at Cairo this third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

N. NUBAR.
AN. BYZANTIOS.

[Translation of a printed official French version of the customs regulations of Egypt, of April 2, 1884.]

[ Office of the director-general of Egyptian custom-houses.]

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.

TITLE I.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

ARTICLE I.

Customs Boundary.

The shore of the sea, and the frontiers touching the territories of the neighboring States, shall form the customs boundary.

ARTICLE II.

Zone of Surveillance.

The warehousing and transportation of goods which have crossed the customs line shall be subject to the surveillance of the customhouse officers to a distance of two kilometers from the land frontier or from the sea shore, and likewise from both banks of the Suez Canal and of the lakes through which that canal passes.

Outside of these limits, the transportation of goods may take place freely; nevertheless, goods removed fraudulently, and kept in sight by agents of the public force, may be seized even after they have been conveyed beyond the zone of surveillance.

The following goods may likewise be seized throughout the extent of the Egyptian territory: prohibited goods, those whose sale is monopolized by the State, and tobacco or tombac not accompanied by a raftieh for circulation in the interior.

For vessels, the zone of surveillance shall extend to a distance of ten kilometers from the shore. Caravans crossing the desert, and suspected of carrying on illicit trade, shall be subjected to examination and search by the custom-house officers.

ARTICLE III.

Passage across the customs boundary.

Goods cannot cross the customs boundary during the night, that is to say between the setting and rising of the sun.

Throughout the extent of the maritime coast-line, it shall be allowable to enter ports and to come near the shore during the night, in localities where there are custom-houses, but no discharge, transshipment or shipment shall be made without a special authorization, in writing, from the Collector of Customs.

ARTICLE IV.

No shipment, discharge or transshipment of goods shall take place without the previous authorization of the custom-house, or when no custom-house officers are present.

Any shipment, discharge or transshipment shall take place at the points specially set apart for that purpose by the customs authorities. Captains are forbidden to receive new goods on board of their vessels, before having fully complied with the customs formalities relative to goods brought, unless they have received, in writing, the authorization of the Collector of Customs.

The latter may permit, by way of exception, the discharge or transshipment of goods to take place in the absence of the custom-house officers.

In this case, he shall mention the fact in a note on the copy of the manifest.

ARTICLE V.

Of the permit to sail, otherwise known as the Tamkin.

Captains, before their departure, must present at the custom-house the manifest of the goods on board of their vessels. Not until after this requirement has been complied with shall the custom-house authorize the port authorities to issue the tamkin.

The custom-house shall be at liberty to cause a tamkin to be issued, even before the presentation of the manifest, to vessels represented by an agent in the port of departure, provided that such agent has deposited at the custom-house a written pledge to comply with this requirement within three days.

Steam navigation companies may, with a view to enjoying this privilege, become responsible, once for all and by means of a notarial instrument, for any infractions that may be committed by captains having charge of their vessels.

ARTICLE VI.

Declarations.

All custom-house operations must be preceded by a declaration signed by the owner of the goods or his representative.

The custom-house shall consider the person holding the transportation company's order of delivery as the legitimate representative of the owner. (See Articles XIX. and XX.)

ARTICLE VII.

Search.

As soon as the declaration has been presented at the custom-house, the goods shall be examined. The custom-house shall have the right to examine all packages, but the Collector may, according to circumstances, if he think proper, exempt from examination those packages whose declared contents may not appear to him to be proper subjects for examination.

Less than one package in ten shall not be examined.

If, after one examination, and even after the payment of the duties, any further examinations are deemed necessary, the custom-house shall always have the right to order them to be held.

The packages shall be opened for examination by the superior officers of the custom-house, in presence of the interested parties; the operation shall take place either in the warehouses of the customhouse, or in its offices.

In case of suspicion of fraud, the custom-house shall, even in the absence of the interested party, proceed to open the packages, drawing up a report thereof.

Goods not warehoused, either on account of their dimensions or of their cumbersome character, may be examined outside.

Bags, letters and printed documents brought by the mails, either by land or sea, shall be exempt from examination, provided they are entered upon a regular way-bill.

On the other hand, all postal packages shall be subjected to examination; when there is no suspicion of fraud, this examination shall be merely a summary one, and shall be necessary only in the case of a certain number of packages to be designated by the Collector of Customs.