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TARIFF OF DUTIES.—SIAM.

II.-The undermentioned Articles being subject to the Inland or Transit duties herein named, and which shall not be increased, shall be exempt from Export Duty.

TICAL. SALUNG. FUANG. HUN.

52. Sugar, white

53. Do. red

54. Cotton, clean and uncleaned 55. Pepper

56. Salt fish, Platu

57. Beans and Peas

58. Dried Prawns

59. Tilseed

60. Silk, raw

61. Bees' wax

62. Tawoll

63. Salt

0

2

0

0 per picul.

0

1

0

**

10 per cent.

1

0

0

O

per picul.

1

0

0

per 10,000 fish.

one-twelfth

one-twelfth

one-twelfth

one-twelfth

one-fifteenth

1

0

6

1

2

0

U

per picul.

0

per koyan.

0

per 1000 bdles.

free of Export

64. Tobacco

III.-All goods or produce unenumerated in this Tariff shall be Duty, and shall only be subject to one Inland Tax or Transit Duty, not exceeding the rate now paid.

This article has been compiled from information procured on the spot, aud com- municated to us by our friend John Crawfurd, Esq.; from the Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam, 2 tomes, 1854, de M. Pallegoix; Sir John Bowring's Account of the Kingdom and People of Siam; and Parliamentary Papers.

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