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TARIFF OF DUTIES-SIAM

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exceeding ten pounds; or any such subject who wilfully harbours or secretes a person deserted from his ship incurs a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, if it be proved that he had knowledge of his being a deserter.

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.

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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 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 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.

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Tariff of Export and Inland Duties to be levied on Articles of Trade I.The's 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 FUANG HUNTIN

10 per picul

1 Ivory

2 Gamboge

3 Rhinoceros' horns

4 Cardamons, best.....

5 Cardamons, bastard

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10

نا

50

· 116 14)

0

0

12

6 Dried mussels

7 Pelicans' quills

8 Betel nut, dried...

9

Krachi wood......

10 Sharks' fins. white...

1

2

0

6

11 Sharks' fins, black.

3

12 Lakkraban seed

13 Peacocks' tails

10

14 Buffalo and cow bones.

15 Rhinoceros' hides ...

16 Hide cuttings

0

17 Turtle shell

18 Soft ditto

19

Beche-de-mer

20 Fish maws

21

Birds' nests, uncleaner

22 Kingfishers feathers

23 Cutch......... magust. in iuli

24 Beyche seed (Nux Vomica)

25 Pungtarai seed

24 Gum Benjamin

27 Angrai bark .............di.....at...exvlas

28 Agilla wood,

29 Ray skins

30 Old deers' horns

31 Soft, or young ditto.'!

31

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99

0 per 100 tails.. 3 per picul

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3

0

3

0

0.

20

per cent.

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40230

3.

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10 per cent.

0 per 100 0 per picul

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32 Deer hides, fine

33 'Deer hides, common

34 Deer sinews

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35 Buffalo and cow hides

36 Elephants' bones...

37 Tigers' bones.

38 Buffalo horns

39 Elephants' hides

40 Tigers' skin

Armadillo skins Sticklao

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42

43 Hemp

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Dried Fish, Plaheng

45 Dried Fish, Plusalit

46 Sapanwood

47 Salt meat

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48 Mangrove bark.