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exceeding ten pounds; or any such subject who wilfully harbours or secretes a person deserted from his ship incurs a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, if it be proved that he had knowledge of his being a deserter.

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.

Art. 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 sea man 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 mister 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 800 ticals (equ.1 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 leviel 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:-

ITUN

1 Ivory

2 m boge

3

Rhinoceros' horns

6

6

Dried mussels

4 Cardamons, best..

Cardamons, bastard

7 Pelicans' quills

8

Betel nut, dried

9

Krachi wood...

TICAL SALUNG FUANG

10

0

0

0 per picul

Ե

0

0

50

0

0

0

**

14

0

0

0

14

6

0

1

0

0

""

0

"

0

**

0

+

""

0

10 Sharks' fins, white..

11 Sharks' fins, black......

3

12 Iukkraban seed

0

Peacocks' tails

10

14

Buffalo and cow bones

0

16

Rhinoceros' hides

16

Hide cuttings

0

17

Turtle shell

18

Soft ditto

19

Beche-de-mcr

20

Fish maws

21

కిబట

Birds' nests, uncleaned

22 Kingfishers' feathers.

23 Cutch

24 Beycho seed (Nux Vomica)

25 Pungtarai seed

26 Gum Benjamin

27 Angrai bark

28 Agilla wood

29

Ray skins

30 Old deers' horns

31 Soft, or young ditto

Ad

0 per 100 trels 3 per picul

0

0

**

0

0

3

20

per cent.

G

0

0

0

1

0

4

10 per cent.

**=*= NANGNDOML

0

0

*

0

0

+1

0

U

0

0

per 100

2

0

per pical

2

0

**

per picu!

13

9*

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