Ceylon.] 



ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



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under penalty of fine and imprisonment. Goods transshipped without per- 

 mission, or put on board a different vessel than stated at the custom-house, 

 to be confiscated, or charged with treble duties. Exportation of Island 

 coinage prohibited, under pain of confiscation. Export of tobacco of 

 Travancore assortment, without licence, prohibited, under pain of fine and 

 confiscation. The importation of saltpetre, sulphur, gunpowder, lead, 

 ammunition, and arms, without special licence, prohibited ; penalty, confis- 

 cation. Exports to be entered at the port of clearance, or confiscated. 

 Persons in charge of vessels, privy to any act involving confiscation of goods, 

 to pay a fine equal to their value. Officers may enter, search, and remain 

 on board vessels during their stay in port ; persons offering them a bribe, 

 liable to fine and imprisonment, Any servant of the custom-house receiving 

 a fee to be dismissed ; and persons informing, to have a fourth of his 

 monthly salary as reward. Informers of breach of regulations entitled to 

 a third of confiscated property. 



Rcgulatimis in the Master-Attendants Department at Columbo. — Ves- 

 sels to come to anchor within G| fathoms water ; beyond that depth they 

 will be charged double boat-hire. 



All square-rigged vessels, sloops, and schooners, to employ Government 

 boats only ; no country boat to be allowed to ply to any of them, without 

 leave from the Master- Attendant, who, when it may be deemed expedient by 

 Government, for the sake of dispatch, is to hire such boats. 



Any country boat plying to a square-rigged vessel, sloop, or schooner, 

 without leave of the Master-Attendant, in writing, liable to confiscation, and 

 the boat-hire forfeited to Government 



Vessels, domes, and boats of every description, having customable 

 goods on board, immediately after coming to an anchor, to send a manifest 

 of their cargoes to the custom-house. 



No boats to be allowed to go alongside to receive any part of a 

 cargo, till such manifest shall have been delivered in, and certificate 

 thereof, signed by the Custom Master, produced to the Master- Attendant 

 or his officers. 



The boatmen belonging to the Master- Attendant's department, not 

 to be employed on board any vessels, by the commanders or officers of 

 such vessels. 



The lull hire of every boat to be paid for every day it is employed either 

 in receiving or discharging the cargo. 



Boats going off' alter sunset, to be charged half more than usual hire. 



Persons applying for boats, and not using them, to pay half the hire 

 of the boats. 



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