通商須知: Useful manual for the use of traders in China1899 - Commerce |
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Common terms and phrases
100 catties 99 picul acid Black Board boat bottle British cargo cent 99 cent ad valorem Chefoo Chinese chloride cloth colour Consul Copper Cotton Court Customs dollar Dried Emperor of China exceeding exported Feby Fish Foreign Free Ginseng Glass Gold Government Hai Kuan Hongkong Imperial Iron Jany Kuan CHINESE Majesty's merchant Metals Moon NAME OF ARTICLE Native officers Opium oxide Paper Peking persons picul 99 piece 99 pieces ad valorem port Potassium powder provinces Salt Sapan wood seal Secretary Shanghai ship Silk Silver Sir Thomas Wade Skins sulphate sulphide Taels TARIFF UNIT trade tranship Treaty UNIT AND DUTY valorem 99 vessel ware White wine Wood Woollen yards long 個囉乎 全呌 加士 又日 又曰 哀路 埃蘭 巴士 思力 或日 柯乎 滑打 禮士 窩打 英國 葛頓 阿乎 非樹
Popular passages
Page 225 - The Christian religion, as professed by Protestants or Roman Catholics, inculcates the practice of virtue, and teaches man to do as he would be done by. Persons teaching it or professing it, therefore, shall alike be entitled to the protection of the Chinese authorities, nor shall any such, peaceably pursuing their calling, and not offending against the laws, be persecuted or interfered with.
Page 225 - British subjects are hereby authorized to travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trade, to all parts of the interior, under passports which will be issued by their Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities.
Page 511 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 280 - The superintendent of customs, in order to the collection of the proper duties, will, on application made to him through the consul, appoint suitable officers, who shall proceed, in the presence of the captain, supercargo, or consignee, to make a just and fair examination of all goods in the act of being discharged for importation, or laden for exportation on board any merchant vessel of the United States.
Page 282 - ... to the superintendent of customs, who may appoint officers to examine into the facts, and permit the transhipment. And if any goods be transhipped without such application, inquiry, and permit, they shall be subject to be forfeited to the Chinese government.
Page 267 - Empire have named for their plenipotentiaries, to wit: The President of the United States of America, William H.
Page 212 - Irish peers; for not only these, but the eldest sons of peers of Great Britain, though frequently titular lords, are only esquires in the law, and must be so named in all legal proceedings.
Page 232 - option of any British subject desiring to convey produce " purchased inland to a port, or to convey imports from " a port to an inland market, to clear his goods of all transit dues by payment of a single charge.
Page 240 - British ships of war coming for no hostile purpose, or being engaged in the pursuit of pirates, shall be at liberty to visit all ports within the dominions of the Emperor of China, and shall receive every facility for the purchase of provisions, procuring water, and, if occasion require, for the making of repairs. The Commanders of such ships shall hold intercourse with the Chinese authorities on terms of equality and courtesy.
Page 230 - Should any Chinese subject fail to discharge debts incurred to a British subject, or should he fraudulently abscond, the Chinese authorities will do their utmost to effect his arrest, and enforce recovery of the debts. The British authorities will likewise do their utmost to bring to justice any British subject fraudulently absconding or failing to discharge debts incurred by him to a Chinese subject.