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 Admission of vessels.—Number of ports open to foreign commerce.—Goods free of duties.—Invoices.—List of prohibited articles.—Exempted articles.—Measurement of goods.—List of duties, in Mexican and British monies, on admitted articles.—Articles of flax, &c.—Wood, &c.—Silks.—Of cotton manufacture.

vessel, of whatever nation, not at war with Mexico, shall be admitted into such ports of the latter as are open to foreign commerce; and in the act of arriving, the captain, or supercargo, and the crew, as well as the vessel and the cargo, shall be subjected to the regulations prescribed in this decree 3 to the payment of duties, and to the penalties established by it, or to the measures in force at the time of arriving. Vessels shall therefore be