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time of occupation shall be collected in the form which 

 the chief collector of customs shall determine. 



ART. VIII. All merchandise disembarked should be 

 immediately dispatched for consumption. If from 

 exceptional circumstances, duly certified to by tho 

 chiet collector of customs, it shall not be possible to 

 dispatch from tho port the merchandise disembarked, 

 these may be deposited in the stores of the custom- 

 house for fifteen days. The compensation for storage 

 shall bo equivalent to 2 per cent of tho value of tho 

 rnerchandi.se. If, at the expiration of fifteen days, the 

 merchandise shall not have been dispatched, the col- 

 lector of customs shall proceed to sell them at auction 

 to tho highest bidder, and, after deduction of costs 

 and duties, the remainder shall be held in deposit to 

 the credit of whom it may concern. 



PAYMENT OF DUTIES. 



ART. XI. The duties may be paid, at the option of 

 the payer, (1) in the silver peso (dollar) of any na- 

 tionality, provided always that, by weight and stand- 

 ard, it shall not be worth, less than that of Chili ; (2) 

 in jjold coin, computing the peso at 38 pence each; 

 (3) in treasury bills of Chili at such rates of discount 

 as shall be fixed at these headquarters within the first 

 two weeks of each month. 



ART. XII. This decree shall take effect from and 

 after the 8th of June, proximo. 



The decrees of the 22d January and the 15th Feb- 

 ruary last are repealed. 



Given in the Government House, in Lima, this 24th 

 of May, 1881. PATRICK LYNCH. 



MANUEL DIAZ B., Secretary-General. 



Patrick Lynch, Rear- Admiral and General-in-Chief 

 of the Army of Chili. 

 Whereas, I nave this day decreed as follows : 



FOR EXPORTATION. 



ART. V. Merchants wishing to export sugar, or any 

 article subject to export duties, from any port lying 

 north or south of Callao, may do so by complying 

 with the following provisions : 



1. They shall present an application to the collector 

 of customs at Callao, mentioning the name of the 

 port (or ports) in which the goods are to be discharged, 

 together with the quantity to be exported. On ar- 

 ranging for the payment of duties on the merchandise 

 to be exported, the parties interested shall furnish a 

 certificate of deposit, or a promissory notCj indorsed 

 to the satisfaction of the collector, as security for the 

 amount of such duties. 



2. The payment of said amount shall be required, 

 if, during the period which shall be fixed by the col- 

 lector, and which shall not exceed one month, it shall 

 not be satisfactorily shown that the exportation lias 

 been impossible, owing to some unforeseen occurrence, 

 or to vis major. 



3. Notwithstanding the provisions contained in the 

 foregoing paragraph,' the collector may require the 

 payment of the export duties to be made in cash 

 whenever he shall deem it proper so to do. 



_ ART. VI. The duties having been paid, or a suffi- 

 cient guarantee furnished for their payment, the col- 

 lector shall issue an order in duplicate, in which shall 

 be stated the name of the vessel which is to receive 

 the goods, the exact quantity of the latter, the name 

 of the port (or ports) in which they are to be dis- 

 charged, and such other particulars as may tend to 

 prevent abuses. Both copies shall bear the approval 

 and seal of the military commander of Callao. 



ART. VII. The order referred to in the foregoing 

 article shall be delivered to the party interested, and 

 shall be considered a sufficient permit by the com- 

 manding officer of the blockading force," or by the 

 military officer in command of the port from which 

 the exportation takes place. The military command- 

 er, or, in his absence, the commander of the block- 

 ading force, shall retain one of the copies of the order, 

 for the purpose of transmission, as speedily as possible, 



to the collector of customs at Callao, after having cer- 

 tified to the quantity of merchandise shipped. The 

 other copy shall be returned to the party interested 

 after the remarks written upon the one reserved have 

 been, copied thereon. 



ART. VIII. The collector of customs at Callao, as 

 soon as he shall receive the copy sent him by the 

 military commander, or the commander of the block- 

 ading squadron, shall proceed to collect the duties on 

 the goods, in case they have not yet been paid. 



ART. IX. Any exports made in violation of the 

 foregoing articles will t-ubiect the party making them 

 to the penalties prescribed for the prevention and re- 

 pression of smuggling. 



Done at Lima, in the Government Hall, May 25, 

 1881. P. LYNCH. 



MANUEL DIAZ B., Secretary-General. 



Of the condition of Peruvian commerce at 

 the present time nothing more can be said 

 than that it has reached the lowest ebb. Even 

 the trade with Great Britain has been sensibly 

 decreasing since 1878. The subjoined tabular 

 statement will serve to show the value of the 

 Peruvian exports to and imports from Great 

 Britain during the decennial period embraced 

 between 1871 and 1880 : 



Of the total value of the exports for 1880, 

 given in the foregoing table, 2,932,160 soles 

 were for guano, which article, and nitrate and 

 raw sugar, constitute the staple exports of tho 

 republic. The quantities and values of the 

 guano shipments to Great Britain during the 

 period just referred to were as follows : 



The exports of sugar in an unrefined state, 

 small previous to 1869, have attained large 

 proportions in recent years. From 2.560,560 

 soles in 1874, they rose in 1876 to the value 

 of 4,963,995 soles, and in 1880 to 5,640,310 

 soles. 



The following table shows the annual exports 

 of nitrate of soda from Iquique (the principal 

 port of the nitrate region), from 1830 to 1879, 

 the value, per cwt., at Liverpool, in each year 

 since 1847, inclusive, and the number of ves- 

 sels annually engaged in the nitrate carrying 

 trade : 



