282 ORIENTAL COMMERCE. [Calcutta. 



Rates of Dock Hire, established March, 1822: — For pumping out 

 the dock, shoring, and the use of shores, stages, and warps, (exclusive of 

 shores for hanging a ship to shift the keel), and opening and shutting gates, 

 500 Sicca rupees. 



For every ship of 500 tons and upwards, entering dock, 500 ditto. 



For every ship of less than 500 tons, 400 ditto. 



For every ship remaining in dock beyond 8 days, including the day 

 she enters, per day, 50 ditto. 



Ships* Registers and Licences. — Certificates of British Plantation 

 Registry are granted by the Deputy Collector of Customs, on production of, 

 1st. the Builder's certificate, accompanied by the grand and intermediate 

 bills of sale, with the owner's affidavit. 2d. Certificate of the Surveyor 

 appointed under the statute, with the assent of the person attending the 

 survey on behalf of the owner. 3d. Bond by the owner and master, attested 

 before the Deputy Collector. 4th. Oath of the owner, sworn before the 

 same officers. — The following fees are authorized to be taken on granting 

 each registry certificate : — To the Deputy Collector of Customs, 10 gold 

 mohurs, for ships of 200 tons burthen and upwards; 5 gold mohurs for 

 ships below that burthen. To the Surveyor, 2 gold mohurs. 



Licences for ships proceeding to England are issued from the Board of 

 Trade. A fee of 10 gold mohurs is payable to the Secretary for each 

 licence (including bonds, &c. for the care of Asiatic seamen). Licences or 

 passes are issued from the office of Secretary' to the Government, in the 

 general department, to persons and ships employed in the country trade in 

 India. A fee of 2 annas per ton measurement of the vessel, is charged for 

 each pass or licence, and 1 gold mohur for registering the same. 



Coins. — Accounts are kept here in imaginary money, called rupees, 

 either Current or Sicca, with their subdivisions, annas and pice ; 12 pice make 

 1 anna; 10 annas 1 rupee; and 16 rupees I gold mohur. To this cur- 

 rency must all the real specie he converted, before any sum can be regularly 

 entered into a merchant's book. The Company keep their accounts 

 in Sicca rupees, which bear a batta of 16 per cent, against the current. 



The coins current are gold mohurs, with their subdivisions, halves and 

 quarters ; Sicca rupees, halves and quarters ; annas, pice, and half pice. The 

 two last are of copper. 



In 1766 the Bengal gold mohur weighed 179-66 grains, was of the 

 fineness of 20 carats, and passed for 14 silver rupees. The gold was here 

 overvalued, for it passed in proportion to silver, as 16.45 to 1. In 1760 it 

 was ordered that the Bengal gold mohur should weigh 190.773 groins, and 

 in this coinage gold was valued to silver nearly as 11.8 to 1; and, by 



