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London, England, 1856-09-24 00:00:00

SECTION V.

Untr,nclied or low lands, planted with annuals of all
sorts, ply a land-tax of one salunz and one fuanz, per
raj, for each crop.
No land-tax is levied on these lands if left unculti-
vated.

Sixty c rxries per tical are levied as expenses of test-
ing 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 and charges.

(LS.) HARRY S. PA.RKES.
(Signatures and seals of the five
Royal Commissioners.)

CUSTOM-HOUSE REGULATIONS.
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 on between those hours.
The tide-waiters, required to superintend the landing or
shipment of goods, will remain in waiting for that pur-
pose, from daylight until dark.

- 2. Subordinate Custom-house officers shall be ap-
pointed to each ship, their number shall not be limited,
and they may remain on board the vessel or in brats
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.
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3. The landing, shipment, or transshipment of goods
may be carried on only between sunrise and sunset.
4. AU cargo landed or shipped shall be examined and
passed by the custom-house officers within 12 hours of
daylight after the receipt of the custom-house of the
proper application. The manner in which such applica-
tion and examination is to be made shall be settled by
the Consul and the Superintendent of Customs.
5. Duties may be paid by British merchants in ticals,
foreign corn, or bullion, the relative values of which will
be settled by the Consul and the proper Si Ime.,e officer,.
The Siamese will appoint whomsoever they may please
t) receive payment of the duties.

6. The receiver of duties may take from the merchants
2 salungs per catty of eighty ticals for testing the money
paid to him as duties, and for each stainpedreceipt given
by him for duties be may charge 6 salungs.
7. Both the Superintendent of Customs and the British
Consul shall be provided with sEaled weights and
measures, which may be referred to in the event of any
difference arising with the merchants as to the weight
or dimensions of money or goods,
(L.S.) HARRY S. PARKES.
(Signatures and seals of the five
Royal Commissioners.)

TREATY OF 1856, REFERRED TO IN THE
AGREEMENT OF MAY 13, 1856.
The powerful Lor 3, who is in possession of every good,
and every dignity, the God Baal), who dwells over
every head in the city of the sacred and great kingdom
of Si-a-yoo-tha.ya (titles of the King of Siam.) Incom-
prehensible to the head and brain, the sacred beauty of
the royal palace, serene and infallible there (titles of the
Wang-na, or second King of Siam), have bestowed their
commands upon the beads of their Excellencies, the
Ministers of high rank, belonging to the sacred and great
kingdom of Si-a-yon-tha-ya. to assemble and frame a
treaty with Captain Henry Burney, the English Envoy,
on the part of the English Government, the Honourable
East India Company, who govern the countries in India
belonging to the English under the authority of the
King and Parliament of England ; and the Right Hon.
Lord Amherst, Governor of Bengal, and other Eng-
lish officers of high rank, have deputed Captain
Burney, as an Envoy to represent them, and to
frame a treaty with their Excellencies, the Minis-
ters of high rank belonging to the sacred and
great kingdom of S:-a-yoo-tha-ya, in view that
the Siamese and the English nation may become great
and true friends, connected in. love and affection, with
genuine candour and sincerity on both sides. The Sia-
mese and English frame two uniform copies of a treaty,
in order that one copy may be placed in the kingdom of
Siam-, and that it may become known throughout every
great and small province subject to Siam, and in order
that one copy may be placed iu Bengal, and that it may
become known throughout every great and small Province
subject to the English Government. Both copies of the
treaty will be attested by the royal seal, by the seals of
their excellenciew the ministersof high rank in the city
of the sacred and great kingdom of Bi-a-yoo tha-ya, and
by the seals of the Right Honourable Lord Amherst,
Governor of Bengal, and of the other English officers
of high rank.

ARTICLE I.
The English and Siamese engage in friendship, love,
and affection with mutual truth, sincerity, and candour.
The Siamese must not meditate or commit evil, so as to
molest the English in any manner. The English must
not meditate or commit evil, so as to molest the Siamese
in any manner. The Siamese must not go anti molest,
attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory, or
boundary, belonging to the English,• in any country
subject to the English. The English must not go and
molest, attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory,
or boundary, belonging to the Siamese, in any ennntry
subject to the Siamese. TUe Siamese shall settle every
matter within the Siamese boundaries anclrling ta their
own will and customs.