Page:สัญญากรุงเทพฯ กับกรุงอังกฤษเป็นทางไมตรีค้าขายกัน (๒๓๓๙).pdf/53

 No land tax is levied on those lands if left uncultivated.

Sixty Cowries per Tical are levied as expenses of testing the quality of the Silver, on all sums paid as Taxes under the long assessment. Taxes paid under the annual assessment are exempted from this charge.

Lands having once paid a tax according to one or other of the above mentioned rates, are entirely free from all other taxes or charges.

(Signed,) His Royal Highness
 * (L.S.)

(Signed,) His Excellency
 * (L.S.)

(Signed,) His Excellency
 * (L.S.)

(Signed,) His Excellency
 * (L.S.)

(Signed,) His Excellency
 * (L.S.)

(Signed,) His Excellency
 * (L.S.) HARRY S. PARKES.

Approved, JOHN BOWRING.

 

1.A Custom-house is to be built at Bangkok, near to the anchorage, and Officers must be in attendance there between 9 A.M. and 3 P.M. The business of the Custom-house must be carried anon [sic] between those hours. The tide-waiters required to superintend the landing or shipment of goods, will remain in waiting for that purpose from daylight until dark.

2.Subordinate Custom-house Officers shall be appointed to each ship; their number shall not be limited, and they may remain on board the vessel or in boats alongside. The Custom-house Officers appointed to the vessels outside the bar will have the option of residing on board the ships, or of accompanying the cargo-boats on their passage to and fro.

3.The landing, shipment, or transhipment of goods may be carried on only between sunrise and susnet. 