11 andelsbe Stimmungen. — Projectirte Eisenbahnen. 
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Schon sind englische Ingenieure in China nach allen Richtungen hin thätig, um sowohl 
die Distanzen im Reiche selbst, als auch die Entfernung desselben vom englischen Weltmärkte 
zu verkürzen. 1 Der berühmte englische Techniker Sir Macdonald Stephenson, welcher im Jahre 
1862 China bereiste, hat britischen Capitalisten ein Project vorgelegt, um Schanghai mit Hankau 
(650 Meilen) und Peking (850 engl. Meilen), so wie Hankau mit Canton (850 engl. Meilen) und 
Britisch-Indien (1600 engl. Meilen) zu verbinden. Mit kleinen Zweigbahnen von Tientsin nach 
Peking, so wie von Schanghai nach Sütschau soll der Anfang gemacht werden, um der Bevöl- 
kerung und der Regierung China’s die grossen Vortheile von Eisenbahnen praktisch vor Augen 
zu führen. Ein anderer Plan, weniger kostspielig, aber nicht minder kühn, beabsichtigt eine Her- 
stellung eines zweiwochentlichen Postverkehrs zwischen England und China über Sibirien und 
die Mongolei. 
this pass will be enabled to load and discharge, and will pay duties according to the rule affecting river 
steamers. 
On arriving off Chin-kiang , or Kiu-kiang , the steamer, whether proeeeding up the river or down, will 
exhibit her pass to the Customs. 
The tonnage dues leviable on any steamer hobling a river pass shall be paid alternately at Chin-kiang, 
Kiu-kiang, and Hankow. 
The Customs are at liberty to put a tidewaiter on board a steamer at any of these ports, to accompany 
her up or down the stream, as the case may be. 
Infringement of river port-regulations will be punished by the inflietion of the penalties in force at the 
ports open by treaty; for a second offence the steamer’s river pass will also be cancelled and she will be refused 
permission to trade thenceforward above Chin-kiang. 
Any steamer not provided with a river pass, if her master propose proeeeding above Chin-kiang, will 
come under the rules affecting seagoing vessels laid down in Art. III., and will be treated accordingly. 
Art. V. Iiiver steamer’s caryoes: 
Ist. Where native produce is shipped at a river port , on board a steamer provided with a river pass, 
the shipper must pay both export and coast trade duty , bef’ore he ships it. If it be for export to a foreign 
port, this should be stated when the produce arrives at Shanghai , and if it be exported from Shanghai within 
the three months allowed, the shipper will obtain from the Shanghai customs a certificate of its re-exportation ; 
on production of which at the river port of shipment, whether Chin-kiang, Kiu-kiang, or Hankow, the customs of 
that port will issue a drawback for the amount of coast trade duty paid. 
2nd. Where import cargo is transhipped on board a river steamer at Shanghai it must first be cleared 
of all duties. The transhipment will not be authorised until the customs are satisfied that the import duties 
have been paid. 
Art. VI. Native craft, owned or chartered by British merchants, will pay duty on their cargo at the rates 
eviable on such cargo under the treaty tariff. All such craft will further have to be secured by bond, in the 
manner laid down in the provisional rules, published on the öth Dec. , 1861, and on entry into any port will 
pay port dues according to Chinese tariff. If the cargoes of native craft so employed do not agree with their 
cargo certificate, the amount specified in their bonds will be forfeited to the Chinese Government. This provision 
is only valid until tranquillity is restored along the river. 
Art. VII. British vessels of all classes , as well as junks owned or chartered by British merchants, must 
apply to the customs at the port of departure for a cargo certificate (tsungtauj , which, on the vessel or junk’s 
arrival at the port of destination, must be handed in to the Customs before permission to dicharge can be given. 
The above regulations are provisional, and open to revision, if necessary. 
1 Gegenwärtig benöthigen Correspondenzen aus Europa nach Hongkong circa 6 Wochen, nach Manila und 
Schanghai 7 — 8 Wochen, nach Japan und dem Norden China’s 9—10 Wochen. 
