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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.
Act. 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 morethan 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 departure, which is to fly until she breaks anchorage.
Art. 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 600 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.
Tariff of Export and Inland Duties to be levied on Articles of Trade
I. The undermentioned Articles shall be entirely free from Inland or other taxes, on production of transit pass, and shall pay Export Duty as follows:-
TICAL SALUNG FUANO HUN
1 Ivory
2 Gamboge
3
Rhinoceros' horns
4 Cardamons, best.....
Cardamons, bastard
5
G
Dried mussels
8
Betel nut, dried
7 Pelicans' quills
10
6
50
14
6
1
0
per picul
0
19
()
12
0
"
2
1
9 Krachi wood.................
10 Sharks' fins, white.....
0
6
11 Sharks' fins, black..
3
12
Lukkrabau seed
0
13
Peacocks' tails
10
14
Buffalo and cow bones
0
15
Rhinoceros' hides
0
16 Hide cuttings
0
17 Turtle shell
1
18 Soft ditto
19
Beche-de-mer
3
20 Fish maws
3
21
23
Birds' nests, uncleaned
22 Kingfishers' feathers....
Cutch.............
24 Beyche seed (Nux Vomica)
20 per cent.
25 Pungtarai seed
28 Gum Benjamin
27 Angrai bark
28 Agilla wood
29 Ray skins
3
30 Old deers' horns
0
1
00000=-=0
31 Soft, or young ditto
10
per
cent.
32 Deer hides, fine
8
(
0
0
33 Deer hides, common
3
(
0
0
31 Deer sinews
35
Buffalo and cow hides
0
0
6
0
0
DOMINOSHODA-=-005-AANONDO-
2
0
0
0
0
0
Onoo0000
0 per
100 tails
3 per picul
31
24
**
0
por 100
0 per picul
•
"
*
1
25
per 100 hides
14
0 per picul
11
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