8 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 
Arr. 1 
The part of the harbor place Neufahrwasser situated in the basin of the harbo? 
near the mouth of the harbor eanal, which is limited on the land side by a fence 
for preventing the smuggling and watched on the water side by the customhouse 
authorities, forms with the water surface belonging to it a free place of deposits ir 
the sense of article 107 of the custom law of the union. 
ArT. 2 
The fence for preventing the smuggling which is built at the expense of the 
merchants in Danzig and is to be maintained permanently by them consists of a 
wrought-iron pole fence on the inner side of which a strong wire netting with 
meshes not over 4 em. in width is to be fixed. The height of the fence and of the 
netting must be, including the foundation and calculated from its bottom, not 
less than three meters. If according to the terrain the height of the fence outside 
of the free district is not sufficient for the custom safety the fence and the netting 
must be increased accordingly at the demand of the custom authorities. 
In case, in future, parts of the wrought-iron fence are replaced by buildings 
all the openings at these buildings situated in the cellar and on ground floor 
such as windows, doors, and loopholes, as well as the loopholes in all the floors 
on the side of the fence, must be closed by iron netting, locks, and leaden seals 
according to the rules prescribed for the bonded warehouses in order to prevent 
smuggling. 
If there are near the fence of the free district no public streets or roads, a turn- 
pike-road closed towards the military fiscal terrain by an ordinary wire fence 
must be built by the merchant's corporation at the demand of the custom author- 
ities connecting the two end points of the iron fence at the south and north side 
of the harbor basis. It is watched constantly by a post provided with a patrol 
boat, for which a guard house on the northern side is built. This border line 
must be well illuminated during the night, 
Tor the facilitation of the communication with the sugar warehouse and suga! 
refinery of Danzig situated outside of the fence small gates are to be erected which 
are to be opened only in case of necessity acknowledged by the authorities and 
on the demand of them and on extra payment for the additional work of the 
official personnel. Constructive changes on the borders of the free district mus? 
be approved by the custom authorities. 
ART. 8 
The district separated in this way is to be considered, as far as the measuret 
resulting from the following regulations are concerned, from the viewpoint of 
the custom laws as a foreign country. 
Inside of it the movement of ships, their unloading and loading as well 8¢ 
storage and handling of goods are free of any custom control as far as there are 
no restrictions according to article 6 and the question is not of domestic sug 
which is to be considered a domestic product (art. 19). 
Art. 4 
The custom control &f this district is to be limited by guarding it from the 
outside and watching that persons and goods which come from the district 8° 
to be treated, according to the general custom law rules, as if they arrive directly 
from foreign countries.