TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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be subject to no other demands beside the pay¬ 
ment of duties, and ten ticals, twenty-five per 
cent., (ten sicca rupees) for a chokey pass on 
leaving. Nor shall pilotage be demanded, un¬ 
less the captain voluntarily require a pilot. 
However, when ships arrive, information shall 
be given to the officer stationed at the tf en¬ 
trance of the sea.’ In regard to vessels whose 
breadth of beam exceeds eight royal cubits, 
they shall remain according to the ninth article 
of the Treaty of Yandabo, without unshipping 
their rudders or landing their guns, and be free 
from trouble and molestation as Burmese vessels 
in British ports. Besides the royal duties, no 
more duties shall be given or taken than such 
as are customary. 
“ Art . 4.—Merchants belonging to one coun¬ 
try, who go to the other country and remain 
there, shall, when they desire to return, go to 
whatever country and by whatever vessel they 
may desire, without hinderance. Property 
owned by merchants they shall be allowed to 
sell. Property not sold, and in the care of 
Englishmen, or Kulas, subject to the English 
Government, wives, sons, and daughters, they 
shall be allowed to take away without hinde¬ 
rance, or incurring any expense. 
“ Art. 5 .—English and Burmese vessels meet" 
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