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twenty-four hours, the Consular Officer may give a permit, which shall have the same validity as if it proceeded from the Custom-house.
For neglecting to report his arrival or for presenting a false manifest, the master will be liable to a penalty not exceeding four hundred ticals, but be will be allowed to correct, within twenty-four hours after delivery of it, any mistake he may discover in his manifest, without incurring any penalty.
4. A German vessel breaking bulk and commencing to discharge before having obtained due permission, or smuggling on the river or outside the bar, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding eight hundred ticals, and to confiscation of the goods so smuggled or discharged.
5. As soon as a German vessel shall have discharged her cargo and completed her outward lading, paid all her duties and delivered a true manifest of her outward cargo to the German Consular Officer, a Siamese port clearance shall be granted to her, and, in the absence of any legal impediment to her departure, the German officer will then return the ship's papers to the master and allow the vessel to leave. A Custom House Officer will accompany the vessel to Paknam, and there she will be inspected by the Custom House Officers of that station, and will receive back from them the guns and ammunition previously delivered into their charge.
6. All Custom House Officers shall carry a badge, by which they can be distinguished when acting officially, and only two Custom House Officers shall be allowed on board a German vessel at one time, unless a greater number should be required to effect the seizure of sinuggled goods.
Tariff of Import, Export, and Inland Duties to be levied on Articles
of Trade.
Art. I.-The duties on goods imported into the Kingdom of Siam in vessels belonging to any of the Contracting German States, shall not exceed three per cent. on their value, and shall be paid either in kind or in money, at the choice of the importer.
No duty shall be levied on any cargo not sold.
Art. II.—The undermentioned articles shall be free from inland dues or other taxes on production of transit, and shall only pay the following export duty:-
1. Ivory
2. Gamboge
TICAL. SALUNG. FUANG. HUN.
10
0
0
0 per picul.
6
0
0
0
3. Rhinoceros' horns
50
0
""
4. Cardamons, best
14
5. Do. bastard ...
6
6. Dried Mussels
1
7. Pelicans' quills...
2
8. Betel nut, dried
9. Krachi wood
10. Sharks' fins, white...
6
11. Do.
black
3
12. Lukkrabau seed
0
2
13. Peacocks' tails
10
0 per 100
14. Buffalo and Cow bones
0
3 per picul.
15. Rhinoceros' hides
2
0
""
16. Hide cuttings
1
"
17. Turtle shells
1
0
18. Soft ditto.
1
19. Béche-de-mer
8
""
"}
20. Fish maws
21. Birds' nests, uncleaned 22. Kingfishers' feathers
3
20 per cent.
6
0
0
0 per 100
DOONONOONOOG
""
0
""
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2
""
"1
2
""
""
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