Answer: No foreign warships may sail inside the Bogue [i.e., the harbor approach to Canton city]
Neither foreign women nor firearms may be brought into the factories [i.e., the warehouse complex reserved for foreign traders within the harbor but outside Canton city walls]
. . . foreign ships must not enter into direct communication with the Chinese people and merchants without the immediate supervision (of a native Chinese)
Each factory [each trading nation had its own 'factory'] is restricted for its service to 8 Chinese (irrespective of the number of its occupants) . . .
Foreigners may not communicate with Chinese officials except through the proper channel of the Co-hong
Foreigners are not allowed to row boats freely in the river . . .On the 8th, 18th, and 28th days of the moon 'they may take the air . . . All ships' boats passing the Custom-houses on the river must be detained and examoined, to guard against guns, swords, or firearms being furtively carried in them. On the 8th, 18th, and 28th days of the moon these foreign barbarians may visit the Flower Gardens and the Honam Joss-house, but not in droves of over ten at one time. . . If the ten should presume to enter villages, public places, or bazaars, punishment will be inflicted upon the (interpreter) who accompanies them
Foreign trade must be conducted through the hong merchants. Foreigners living in the factories must not move in and out too frequently, although they may walk freely within a hundred yards of their factories . . .
Foreign traders must not remain in Canton after the trading season [which lasted from October to May each year] . . . they should return home or go to Macao [the Portuguese enclave at the mouth of the harbor]
Foreigners may neither buy Chinese books, nor learn Chinese [difficult to accept that this restriction could be enforced!]
The hong merchants shall not go into debt to foreigners
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