Commode
Primodity 15 excepted from half duty, but on calculating out at the Tariff rate all the items of these Receipts, it appears that the camphor is left out altogether in both. If it did pay half duty and was included in the total, the first Receipt should show the duty of 104.3 li and the 1st. Now the master and one of the consignees state positively that they paid in duty, 127.44.5 nett, and the master who produced the clearance duty receipt said he paid 175 odd, whereas the receipt is for 88.8.8.
We take what ought to appear in both cases, assuming that half duty on camphor is calculated, and then add charges of 10% for remitting and 10% for difference of alloyed silver, and the perquisites under the name of "Cooke here", we should arrive at about the money actually paid in both cases; but as the receipts at present are, they seem incapable of any other explanation than that given by the junk masters and the consignee.
I allow, with that the Collectors reserved a portion for themselves and falsified the account. The duty receipt looks like a deed indented with a Chop.