Madras. 1 



ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



No articles shall be shipped or landed without a permit, or after 6 p. m. 



Any merchandise landed, or attempted to be landed, before the mani- 

 fests shall have been regularly entered at the office of the Collector of 

 Customs, and a permit obtained ; and all goods or merchandise landed, or 

 attempted to be landed, that may not have been inserted in the manifest, 

 shall be charged with double duty ; or in the event of its being proved to 

 the satisfaction of the Board of Revenue, that the goods were attempted to 

 be landed with a view of defrauding the customs, they shall be liable to 

 confiscation. 



All goods (except such as may be shipped or landed on account of the 

 Honourable Company) shall be shipped or landed at the ghaut opposite to 

 the custom-house. Goods or packages shipped from, or landed at, any other 

 place, shall be charged with double duty. 



All officers of Government having orders to ship or land goods, stores, 

 or other articles, the property of the Honourable Company, shall apply to 

 the Collector of Customs for a permit to land or ship such goods, stores, or 

 other articles, and shall furnish to the Collector an invoice of the whole of 

 the articles which may be shipped or landed under such permit. 



All goods (except belonging to the Company) on being landed, shall be 

 immediately brought to the custom-house ; and when required to be passed, 

 a written application in the following form shall be made for that purpose 

 to the Collector of Customs. Applications made in any other form will not 

 be attended to. 



To the Collector of Customs* 



Please to permit the under-mentioned goods to pass 

 the Custom-house on account of, Sea, your obedient servant, A. B. 



Madras, 182 . 



Date. 



Nn. ami 

 nature of 



packages. 



Najne of 



Under wlmi 

 Colours. 



Whence 

 imported. 



SorUof 

 (. U. 



Qua u Li t> 

 of Go.«ls. 



Rales. 



Total Value, 















N. B. These are to he left blank, and filled 

 up fioiu the public tariff. 



If the duty on the goods specified in the application shall have been 

 paid, or satisfactory security given for the payment, the Collector of Cus- 

 toms, or his Deputy, shall subjoin his permit to " weigh," or " examine C 

 or if no duty shall be chargeable, to " pass,*" such goods. 



Goods attempted to be conveyed away from the custom-house without 

 a permit, or goods differing from those specified in the permit, attempted 

 to be carried away under such permit, shall be charged with double duty ; 



