These bamboo slips show that when people applied for a "zhuan" in Chang'an city during the Han dynasty, they had to ask the Fu Lao in their community to vouch for them in addition to meeting the gen-eral conditions of application. County governments only audited the taxes or corvee of the previous or current year. The term of validity for passports depended on specific requirements of the legal system and the applicants' travel purposes, and we can know from the slips that the term of validity generally lasted four or six months but never exceeded a year. If the passport was lost during travel, the holder could apply for a new one in their cur-rent location rather than having to return to the office of original application. Merchants with a passport could enjoy three kinds of preferential treatment known as "rest," "Selling along the way," and "supply" .%汉长安地区编户民申请"传"时,除满足一般的条件外,还需里中父老出面为其担保;县廷只审查其申请者去年或当年的赋税、徭役情况,其它年份不做审查;"传"的有效期依实际需要而定,现可见到的有效期有四个月、六个月,最长时间不超过一年;如果中途把"传"丢失,可按律令在丢失地申请补办;丝路持"传"行商在津关处可以享受"休"、"迁"、"补"的优待政策.
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