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ORIENTAL COMMERCE 



[Java. 



By proclamation of the following provisions are made : — 



Art L — All goods being the production of places in the Eastern Archi- 

 pelago, and under the Netherlands dominion, or under the dominion of 

 Indian Princes and nations, with whom the Netherlands Government is on 

 amicable terms, immediately imported from these places without having 

 touched at a foreign port, in Java or Madura, in Dutch ships, or native 

 vessels on an equality with those ships, shall be free of import duties. 



Art. 2. — All goods mentioned in the foregoing article, imported in Java 

 and Madura in foreign vessels, or in Dutch ships, or native vessels on an 

 equality with them, not immediately, and not without touching a foreign 

 port ; and likewise all other goods not falling under the terms of Article 1st, 

 on their importation on the Islands of Java and Madura, remain subject to 

 the full payment of the existing import duties. 



Art. 3. — In general goods exported from Java shall pay for exporta- 

 tion duties, two per cent, of their value, estimated at the market prices, 

 whether loaded in Dutch or foreign vessels, or whether £oing to Dutch or 

 to foreign ports, provided that with respect to some goods, no special orders 

 have been given, or shall be given, or enacted by these presents. 



Art. 4-. — Until the completion of the general tariff, for the collection 

 of the import and export duties in Netherlands India, the following expor- 

 tation duties shall be collected on the under-mentioned goods, viz. 



In Dutch Ships. In Foreign Ships. 



On camphire, (Japan), per catty — « — ^ 3£ guld.****** 7 guld. 



Copper, (Japan), per pecul w^™, 3\ ditto 7 ditto. 



Mace ditto *™~10 ditto 20 ditto. 



Cloves d i tto«~™™™™™ 9Mitto 19 ditto. 



Nutmegs ditto... ^ 9} ditto 19 ditto. 



Coco-nut or cadjany oil w^^*^*^******** 1$ ditto ««« 3 ditto. 



Tin, per pecul — ..... — . 2 ditto — .. 4 ditto. 



Birds" nests, 1st sort,^.**^^^, M 475 ...... 950 



2d sort, v — ~.™.316 „ 633 



3d sort, . 237 «* .... 474 



Art. 5. — All goods exported from Java and Madura, in Dutch or na- 

 tive vessels, or on equality thereto, shall, on application of the owner, be 

 provided with a certificate, in proof that the duties have been paid, on which 

 certificate these goods are allowed to be imported in all the Netherlands 

 possessions in India, and brought back from thence to Java, without paying 

 any duty, as long as they shaU be accompanied with their original certificate. 



