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No goods to be warehoused unless the duties amount to bl., 

 or unless intended for ulterior market. 



No goods to be taken out of warehouse unless the duties 

 amount to 21., &c. 



Personal property sold at auction (property sold under 

 execution for debt or belonging to estate of deceased 

 persons excepted) subject to duty of 2| per cent., less 

 2| per cent, on such duty to auctioneers, for collecting 

 and paying the same. 



Parties exporting goods are entitled, on certain conditions, 

 to the whole of the duty paid on the importation thereof, 

 when said goods are of the value of 251. and upwards. 



The auctioneers' bonds expire on the 30th June. 



Light Duties. 



4:d. per ton on merchant-vessels. 



Steam-packets carrying royal mails, and steamers coming 



to coal, exceeding 600 tons, 81. ; not exceeding 600 



tons, 11. is. 

 Store-ships and other vessels wholly employed in her 



Majesty's service are exempt from this duty. 



Appendix E. 



Some species of spiders are known to possess the power 

 of not merely forming a web, but also of spinning, for the 

 protection of their eggs, a bag, somewhat similar in form 

 and substance to the cocoon of the silkworm. 



At the commencement of the last century. Monsieur 

 Bon discovered, in France, a method of procuring silk 



