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TARIFF OF DUTIES-SIAM.
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 seaman 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 master will give notice at the Consulate office, and hoist a blue peter twenty-four hours before her departure, which is to fly until she breaks anchorage.
Árt. 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 (equal 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.
Tarif of Export and Inland Duties to be levied on Articles of Trade. I.—The undermentioned Articles shall be entirely free from Island or other taxes, on production of transit pass, and shall pay Export Duty as follows:—
TICAL, SALUNG, FUANG.
1. Ivory
1г.
+
9.
10.
11.
2. Camboge
a.
-L
Rhinoceros' horna
4. Cardamons, beat
Cardamons, bastard
5.
6.
Dried mussels
7.
Pelicans' quille...
8. Betel nut, dried
Krachi wood
Sharks' fins, white Sharks' fins, black
IP
12.
Lukkrabau seed
13.
Peacocks' taila
F
14
Buffalo and cow bones
15.
Rhinoceros' hides
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16. Hide cuttinga
17. Turtle shell
+
18. Soft ditto
IL
19. Béche-de-mer
+-d
20. Fish mAWS
21.
Bird's nests, uncleaned...
22. Kingfishers' feathers
29. Cutch
*+*
24. Beyche seed (Nur Vomice)
25. Pungtarai seed
26. Gum Benjamin
27. Angrai bárk
28. Agilla wood
29. Ray skina
H
170
170
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:
Ir-
Th
:
-
H
LJ
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30. Old deers' horns .31. Soft, or young ditto
100
F
1г.
H
---
+
HUN.
0 per picul.
J
10
0
0
50
P
か
14
0
0
0
H
}
17
0
J
÷
TII
F
ן י -
JIL
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0
0
10
20 per cent.
6
D
10 per cent.
INOONOON-O000
0
H
*
0
JI
**
Ŏ per 100 tails. $ per picul
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0000
1000000
000000000
H
נו
..
JJ
JJ
per 100
per picul.
+
= = = =
E = 2
JJ
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