South America.] 



ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



27 



The effects in tlie Third Class, imported in national bottoms from the 

 Colonies, shall pay 20 per cent., and from Europe or the United States, 

 \2\ per cent. 



The same effects, imported in foreign bottoms from the Colonies, shall 

 pay 25 per cent, and from Europe or the United States, 20 per cent 



The goods in the Fourth Class, imported in national bottoms from the 

 Colonies, shall pay 22 \ per cent, and from Europe or the United States, 

 15 per cent 



The same effects, in foreign bottoms, from the Colonies, 27* per cent., 

 and from Europe or the United States, 224 per cent 



The goods in the FUTh Class, imported in national bottoms from the 

 Colonies, shall pay 25 per cent., and from Europe or the United States* 

 17^ per cent. 



The same goods, imported in foreign bottoms from the Colonies, shall 

 pay 30 per cent., anil from Europe or the United States, 25 per cent. 



The other kinds of merchandize, not comprised in the classes above ex- 

 pressed, shall pay 25 per cent, if the importation be in national bottoms and 

 from the Colonies ; if from Europe or the United States, in the same 

 national bottoms, 17 \ per cent. 



All kinds of merchandize in general, not comprehended in the classes 

 particularly expressed, shall pay 30 per cent., if in foreign bottoms from the 

 Colonies ; if from Europe or the United States, in the same foreign vessels, 

 they shall pay 25 per cent. 



Merchandize, of whatever quality or class, the natural fruits of the 

 Asiatic nations, and European establishments in Asia, not dependent on 

 the Spanish Government, shall pay 12 per cent, if in national vessels from 

 those countries, and 20 per cent, when not from Asia direct. If in foreign 

 vessels, direct from Asia, they shall pay 20 per cent. ; and if not directly 

 from Asia, 25 per cent 



Merchandize, the produce of the American Continent heretofore de- 

 pendent on the Spanish Government, directly from the independent nations 

 of this Continent, imported in national or foreign vessels, shall enjoy the 

 abatement of duty respectively granted to those which proceed from Europe 

 or the United States ; but merchandize in general, not the produce of this 

 country, if imported in national or foreign vessels proceeding from this 

 same American Continent, are subject to the payment of the duties respec- 

 tively payable on goods from the Colonies, unless there be particular treaties 

 of commerce which stipulate otherwise, as well with respect to these States, 

 as to the other independent nations of the earth. 



