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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; anv British subject or seaman of a British vessel guilty of such an act renders imself 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 hoist 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:-

TICAL SALUNG FUANG

HUN

1 Ivory

2

Gamboge

3

Rhinoceros' horns

Cardamona best....

5

Cardamona, bastard

G

Dried mussels

7 Pelicans' quills

R

Betel nut, dried

9 Krachi wood...

19 Sharks' fins, white..

Sharks' fins. black..............

1

.2

Jukkraban seed

13

Peacocks' tails

14 Buffalo and cow bɔnes

Rhinoceros' hides

15

16

Hide cut ings

17 Turtle shell

18 Soft ditto

19 Beche-de-mer

20 Fish inawa

21 Birds' nests, uncleaned

22 Kingfishers' feathers.

23 Cutch

21 Reyche seed (Nux Vomica)

25 Pungtarai seed

28

Gam Benjamin

27

angrai bark

10 6

0

n per picul

0

60

*

14

0

14

6

"

0

0

0

6

3

0

10

1

1

3

0

3

0

20 per cent

6

2

Coco-coocoo

· 1

+

0 100 tails

per 3 per picul

0

0

"+

**

0

()

2

0

1

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9 per 160

per pioul

0

*

"

28 Agilla wood

29 Ray skins

30 Old deers' horns

31 Soft, or young ditto

32 Deer hides, fine

33 Deer hides, common 31 Deer sinewa 35

Buffalo and oow hides

10 per cent

8

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*

O per 100 hides

0

per picul

**

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