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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
in consideration of the friendship subsisting 
between the English and Barman Governments, 
it is agreed, that when merchants, with an Eng¬ 
lish certified pass, arrive at Burman ports for 
the purpose of trade, they shall be allowed to 
sell their goods, after paying the customary du¬ 
ties, and take away the gold and silver received 
in payment, as well as other gold and silver, 
duty free; or, if they prefer it, such merchan¬ 
dise as they may receive in exchange for their 
own goods. Burmese merchants also, arriving 
in English ports for the purpose of trade, shall 
be in like manner allowed to sell their goods 
after paying the customary duties, and take 
away the gold and silver, duty free; or, if they 
prefer it, such piece-goods, rarities, and articles 
of use as they may require. 
“Art. 3.—Ships whose breadth of beam in the 
inside (opening of the hold) is eight royal Bur- 
man cubits, and all ships of smaller size, whether 
merchants from the Burmese country entering 
an English port under the Burman flag, or mer¬ 
chants from the English country with an Eng¬ 
lish certified pass, entering a Burmese port 
under the English flag, shall be subject to no 
other demand beside the payment of duties, and 
ten ticals twenty-five per cent, (ten rupees) for 
a Police passport on leaving. Nor shall pilot- 
