ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



[Calcutta. 



facture), sheaves and pins, shot, spars, speaking trumpets, stationery and 

 books, steel, table utensils, time and binnacle glasses, tin, tin plates and tin 

 ware of every description, toys of iron or tin, types, trinkets composed 

 wholly or chiefly of metal, vitry, watches and time-keepers, weights and 

 scales, wire (of iron, brass, steel, silver, and gold), woollens and all articles of 

 wool, worsted, or yarn. 



Articles subject to 2\ per Cent. : — Articles for wearing apparel (not of 

 woollen manufacture), beads, beer, blacking and brushes, bottles (empty), 

 canes and rattans, carriages and conveyances, chalk, coals, confectionary and 

 sweetmeats, coral, corks, cotton yarn and thread, crystal ware, cyder and 

 perry, earthen-ware, eatables, engravings, filtering stones, flint stones, furni- 

 ture (household), glass and glass-ware of every description, gold and silver 

 lace, gunpowder, lackered ware (not metal), leather of sorts, marble slabs 

 and tiles, medicines, musical instruments, oils, ochre, paint and paint brushes, 

 perfumery, piece-goods, pictures, printed cottons and calicoes, red and white 

 lead, saddlery, seeds of all sorts, soda water, spirits of turpentine, tallow 

 (British), tobacco and snuff, tobacco pipes, turpentine, varnish, vegetable 

 soup, verdigrease, vinegar. 



Articles subject to 10 per Cent. ! — Spirituous liquors. 



All articles not before, enumerated are subject to a duty of 3$ per cent. 



Schedule of Duties on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of Foreign 

 Europe, imported. — Opium, 24 rupees per seer. Wines and spirits, 10 per 

 cent. Other articles, 5 per cent. 



Import Regulations. — All goods attempted to be landed at any other 

 place than the Custom-house, are liable to confiscation. A manifest of the 

 cargo of every vessel entering the port, must be delivered in on oath. 



In landing the cargoes, each boat to be accompanied by a note, specify- 

 ing the quantity and quality of the goods addressed to the Collector, who 

 shall write an order on the note, to weigh, or examine, or pass them. 



Goods not manifested are liable to confiscation ; or if the goods are 

 laden on freight, the Master or Supercargo is liable to a penalty not exceed- 

 ing the value of them. In case of a refusal, the Board of Revenue may 

 prohibit the landing, and may withhold a port-clearance and pilot. 



Previous to landing, security must be given for payment of the duties, 

 either by a deposit of goods, or of Company's paper ; in default of payment 

 in three months, the said deposit is forfeited. 



The original invoices of all goods imported must be produced at the 

 Custom-house, and the duties adjusted according to their amount. In the 

 event of no invoice being produced, or of the Collector seeing cause to sus- 



