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shall, after paying the customary duties, sell the 
goods which remain, and the gold and silver for 
which the goods are sold, English merchants may 
take away. And if they wish to buy and take 
away goods, they shall be allowed to do so. And 
the gold and silver taken away without prohibi¬ 
tion shall pay no duties. When Burmese mer¬ 
chants also come in boats and ships to English 
ports for the purpose of trade, they shall, after 
paying the customary duties, sell the goods 
which remain, and take away the gold and 
silver for which the goods are sold, if they 
wish to do so. But if not, they shall be allow¬ 
ed to buy and take away without hinderance, 
and without paying duties, such piece-goods, 
muskets, flints, powder, and other rarities and 
articles of use, as they may desire. 
64 Art. 3.—Ships whose breadth of beam (en¬ 
trance of the hold) is eight royal cubits of 
twenty English inches, and all ships of smaller 
size, whether Burman merchants entering an 
English port under the Burman flag, or Eng¬ 
lish merchants entering a Burmese port under 
the English flag, shall be subject to no other 
demands besides the payment of duties and 
the fees on the passport at quitting, not ex¬ 
ceeding ten ticals of inferior silver. Nor shall 
pilotage be demanded, unless the captain volun- 
