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ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



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Previously to a ship's clearing from Calcutta, application must be made 

 at the Master- Attendants office lor a pilot ; and if the vessel wants any part 

 of her cargo, permission must be obtained from thence to proceed to the 

 required station, to complete the lading. Commanders may, hy usage* 

 chuse their pilots. Commanders must be on hoard their ships whilst 

 moving up or down the river, unless prevented by sickness or unavoidable 

 cause. A list and specification of crew and passengers must be delivered on 

 oath at the Police-office. An application to the Collector of the Customs 

 for a port-clearance must contain a list of the cargo, according to a printed 

 form, and must be accompanied by the affidavit and a certificate from the 

 Police-office, the ship's pass and certificate of registry, with a certificate 

 from the Commissariat Office in discharge of hospital charge?. The port- 

 clearance, when obtained, must be taken to the Master- Attendants office, 

 with the ship's pass and certificate of registry, and a certificate from the 

 Marine Paymaster in discharge of the pilotage and port-charges. 



Duties. — By Regulation, 1810, (subsequently altered and modified), it 

 is enacted, that Custom-houses shall henceforth be fixed in the Cities of 

 Agra, Furruckabad, Allahabad, Benares, Patna, Moorshedabad, Dacca, 

 and Calcutta, and in the towns of Meerut, Cawnpore, Mxrzapore, Chitta- 

 gong, ITughley, and Balasore ; and that duties, under the denomination of 

 Government customs, shall be levied on the under-mentioned goods, at the 

 following rates, vtx. 



Five per cent, ad valorem, on the importation, exportation, or transit 

 of the following goods : — 



Gold and silver tissues, lace and thread, gunnies, sugar, jaggery, goor, 

 syrup, dammer, vitriol, or tooteah, raw hides, leather, boots and shoes, 

 stone plates, and Bengal paper. 



The same duties on the under-mentioned articles, taken at a fixed 

 valuation, vh. 



Cutch — 8 rupees per factory maund. 



Coco-nuts — «~~~«v^20 ditto per thousand. 



Stick and shelUac 10 ditto per md. of 80 Sic. wt 



Soap 8 ditto per maund. 



Cake and seed-lac 10 ditto per md. of 80 Sic. wt. 



Sal Ammoniac *%%J3S ditto per factory maund. 



Alkali, soojee muttee, or natron^ 1 ditto per maund. 



7£ per cent, ad valorem, on the importation, exportation, or transit of 

 the following goods : — 



Cotton yarn, carpets and setrenjees. oil and oil seeds, mustard, sesa- 



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