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TARIFF OF DUTIES-SIAM
In default of the payment of such fines, the offender is to be imprisoned in the Consular gaol for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Art. X.-All cases of death, and especially of sudden death, occurring on board of British vessels in the port of Bangkok must be immediately reported at the Consulate.
Art. XI.-The discharge of guns from vessels anchored in the port of Bangkok, without notice having been previously given, and permission obtained through H.M. Consul from the proper Siamese authority, is forbidden, under a penalty not exceed- ing ten pounds.
Act. XII.-It is strictly prohibited to shoot birds within the precincts of the Wats or Temples, either in Bangkok or elsewhere within the Siamese dominions, or to injure or damage any of the statues or figures, the trees or shrubs in such localities of Siamese worship; any British subject or seaman of a British vessel guilty of such an act renders himself liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or in default thereof to an imprisonment in the Consular gaol for a period of not more than one month.
Art. XIII.-When a vessel under the British flag is ready to leave the port of Bangkok, the master will give notice at the Consulate office, and boist a blue peter twenty-four hours before departure, which is to fly until she breaks anchorage.
Art. XIV. Should any vessel take in or discharge cargo subsequent to the issue of the Siamese port clearance, as directed by the fifth regulation above quoted, the master, as in a case of smuggling, subjects himself to a penalty of 600 ticals (equal to £100), and goods so taken or discharged will be liable to confiscation.
Art. XV.-Every fine or penalty levied under these regulations is (if not paid in sterling money) at the rate of eight ticals Siamese currency for one pound.
Tariff of Export and Inland Duties to be levied on Articles of Trade. I.-The undermentioned Articles shall be entirely free from Inland or other taxes, on production of transit pass, and shall pay Export Duty as follows:-
1 Ivory
2 Gamboge
3 Rhinoceros' horns
Cardamons, best...
5 Cardamona, bastard
6 Dried mussels
7 Pelicans' quills
8 Betel nut, dried
9
Krachi wood....
10 Sharks' fins, white.
11 Sharks' fins, black........
12 Lukkrabau seed
13
Peacocks' tails
14 Buffalo and cow bonES
16 Rhinoceros' hides
16 Hide cuttings
17 Turtle shell
18 Soft ditto
TICAL
10
50
14
10
0
SALUNG FUANG
HUN
0 per picul
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1
3
3
20 per cent
6
19 Beche-de-mer
20 Fish mawa
21 Birds' nests, uncleaned
22 Kingfishers' feathers
23 Cutch
24 Beyche seed (Nux Vomics)
25 Pungtarai seed
26 Gum Benjamin
27 Angrai bark
28 Agilla wood
29 Ray skine .....
30 Old deers' horns
31 Soft, or young ditto
32 Deer hides, fine
33 Deer hides, common
31 Deer sinews
25 Buffalo and cow hides
040
3
0
10 per cent
8
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per
#
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30
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100 tails per picul
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per 100 per pion!
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23
0 per 100 hides 0 per picul
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