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ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



| Ceylon* 



No goods to be landed or shipped but at the wharf, under the penalty of 

 confiscation, without licence in writing from the Custom Master. 



No goods which are liable to a duty, to be put on shore, or taken from 

 the ship, without a special warrant from the Custom Master. 



No ballast to be thrown ovcrhoard, but deposited in a place pointed 

 out by the Master-Attendant 



The Master- Attendants sen-ants are restricted from receiving fee or 

 gratuity, on pain of dismissal, fine, imprisonment, and whipping. 



Pilots, however, are allowed, in addition to their pay, half the spe- 

 cified rate of pilotage for each ship they pilot into the roads or harbour. 



Rates of Port Charges for Vessels arriving' at, and sailing from, 

 the Port of Coltunbo* 



Nth. Ft. P. 



For Pilotage of all square rigged vessels, sloops, and schooners ....20 0 0 



For a laberlot or rowing boat, to and from vessels lying in the outer 



roads, with sundries, per trip 7 « 0 



For ditto, ditto, in the inner roads 5 0 0 



For a leager of water, filled from outside the fort, and carried alongside 3 0 0 



For a ditto ditto, from the beach, and ditto 2 0 0 



For a ditto when filled and carried alongside, by the boats and crews of 



the vessels, with permission of the Master Attendant I 0 0 



For a leager of arrack, conveyed from the wharf alongside a vessel, or 



vice versa 10 0 



For a laberlot load of ballast 8 0 0 



For a ditto employed in warping a vessel out or in 12 0 0 



For a ditto carrying out, or weighing, an anchor 7 6 0 



For a ditto clearing a ciible 5 0 0 



For a boat employed in shipping or landing rice, wheat, gram, sugar, 



paddy, ike. per each complete bag of Kit pounds English ......... 0 i 0 



For a ton of ballast per country boat 18 0 



For a battel, large country boat of 150 bags of rice burthen and upwards, 



employed in shipping or landing pipes of wine, casks of beer, boles, 



chests, boxes, areea-nuts, &c &c. per trip 10 0 0 



For a small country boat, of about 50 bags of rice burthen, employed 



in carrying sundries, or as a passage boat, per trip..... 2 6 O 



When boats of this last description are employed in landing or shipping 

 articles, particularly enumerated above, they are to be paid for as 

 laid down for such articles 

 For a battel] or large country boat, ordered but not employed, half hire,or 5 0 0 



For a laberlot ditto, ditto, ditto 2 6 0 



For a small country boat ditto, ditto 1 :i 0 



