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ported from, the Cape of Good Hope, except as fea-flores, 
but by the Eaft India Company, or by their licence. 
The export duties vary according to the nature of the arti- 
cles, but, on a general average, they amount to about 5 per 
cent, on commodities, the growth and produce of the Cape. 
8. The port fees, or wharfage and harbour money, were 
formerly levied at a fixed fum on all (hips dropping anchor at 
the Cape, whether they v/ere large or fmall, but were after- 
wards altered to fixpence per ton upon their regiftered tonnage. 
9. The poflage of letters was a fmall charge made on the 
delivery of letters at the poft office, more with a view to prevent 
improper correfpondence during the war, than to raife a re- 
venue, which, indeed, amounted to a mere trifle. 
10. Seizures, fines, and penalties. The law refpeding fmug- 
gling is very rigid at the Cape of Good Hope. Not only the 
adlual fhipping or landing of contraband goods is punifhable, 
but the attempt to do it, if proved, is equally liable ; and the 
penalty is confifcation of the goods, when found, together 
with a muld amounting to three times their value ; or, if not 
found, on fufficient evidence being produced, the delinquent is 
liable to forfeit four times their value. The cafe I alluded to in 
the fecond chapter, where the Court of Juuice was feverely 
ceniured, was an attempt to fmuggle money out of the colony ; 
and the penalty was levied upon the fum that it appeared, on 
evidence, the captain of the (hip had, at one time, brought 
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