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TREATY BETWEEN THE GERMAN STATES AND SIAM.

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 bis arrival or for presenting a false manifes', the master will be liable to a penalty not exceeding four hundred ticals, but he will be allowed to correct, within twent -four hours after delivery of it, any mistake he may discover in bis manifest, without incurring any penal y.

IV. 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 smug led or discharg d.

V.-As soon as a German vessel shall have discharged her cargo and completed her outward lading, paid all her dutie 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 impedim nt to her departure, the German Consular 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 Pakuam, 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.

VI-All Čustom-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 vess-l at one time, unless a greater number should be required to effect the seizure of smuggled goods.

TARIFF.

Here follows the Tariff of Import, Export, and Inland Duties to be levied on Articles of Trade, which is precisely the same as that attached to the English Treaty, with the subjoined a ditions:-

The duties on gods 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 shali be paid either in kind or in money, at the choice of the importer.

Foreign coins, gold and silver in bars or ingots, gold leaf, provisions, and personal effects may be imported or exported duty free.

Such Consular Officers of the Contracting German States as shall be prohibited by their Governments from engaging in trade are at liberty to import duty free all objects of furniture, ou fit, and consumption they may require for their own private

use.

Opium may be imported duty free, but can be sold only to the opium farmer or bis agents. In like mauner guns and ammunition may also be sold to the Siamese Government or to the Consul of the same.