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costs 10$ ticals. Tliis permit only serves for one house, and one time of 

 weighing ; so that if you are about receiving any quantity of goods, of the 

 same quality, from different merchants, agree with them to semi it all to one 

 house, and make one day for weighing off the whole in the merchant's 

 name at whose house it is weighed. This will save the expence of a multi- 

 plicity of permits, and forward business. Each weighing day you must have 

 three of the King's writers, the first and second Shabundar, and the linguist, 

 and to each you daily pay oue quarter tical ; hut it will be to your interest 

 to give them some trifling presents. The Shabundar is generally an 

 European, but not more on that account to be trusted. 



Ships from any part of the Peninsula of India pay the following customs 

 before they are permitted to sail : — 



Measurage, if above 18 feet beam, to the King 10 tical s. 



Ditto to the Barcola, or first Shabundar™. ,10 ditto. 



Ditto to the second Shabundar ™ — *™„v 10 ditto. 



For arrival at the bar 105 tools. 



For pilots and entrance..... 10J ditto. 



To pass the 1st chop-house 10$ ditto. 



Ditto td ditto 10* ditto. 



On departure to 1st ditto 20 ditto. 



Ditto 2d ditto 20 ditto. 



For each permit 10 J ticals. 



A permit to measure.,. ...10+ ditto. 



Ditto to open bales 12 ditto. 



Ditto tor Jeave to sell 10J ditto. 



Registering inwards ] $ ditto. 



Two permits to pass the chop-huuse 2 1 din u. 



At the place where the guns and ammunition are landed (which all 

 vessels frequenting the port are obliged to do), you pay 20 ticals, with 

 some other charges. 



Vessels from Malacca, Palembang,Banca, Batavia, Tringano, Cambodia, 

 and Cochin-China, pay neither duties nor custoYns on their goods ; they only 

 pay the following port-charges : — 



For registering inwards ^^^...^c^.w***.^* l\ tical. 



Two permits to pass the tobangoes, or cbop-houscs^lCM ticals. 



If the vessel has no goods, she will pay a tical per covid of 14 inches 

 for her breadth of beam ; but if she comes here to trade, she pays 2 ticals 

 per covid. 



All vessels from India going to Siam, should take a fresh port-clearance 

 from Malacca, as the great indulgences she will enjoy, must obviously appear, 

 and the saving in the measurement and charges. 



It is important to mention that a strict conformity to customs is 

 requisite in trading here. Last year a commander and supracargo of an 

 English vessel at Bankok were cruelly treated, because they suffered a horse 



