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

ARTICLE VI.

Merchants subject to the Siamese or English going to
trade either in Bengal or any country subject to the Eng-
lish, or at Bangkok, or in any country subject to the Siam-
esa, must pay the duties upon commerce according to the
customs of the place or country, on either side ; and such
merchants and the inhabitants of the country shall be al-
lowed to buy and sell without the intervention of other
parsons in such countries. Should a Siamese or English
merchant have any complaint or suit, he must complain to
the officers and governors on either side, and they will
os-
amine and settle the same, according to the established
laws of the place or country on either side. If a Siamese
or English merchant buy or still without inquiring and
ascertaining whether the seller or buyer be of a good or bad
ch iracter, and if he meet with a bad man who takes the
property and absconds, the rulers and officers must make
search and produce the person of the absconder, and inves-
tigate the matter with sincerity. If the party possess
money or property, be can be made to pay, but if he do
not possess any, or if he cannot be apprehended, it will be
the merchant's own fault.
ARTICLE VII.
A merchant subject to the Siamese or English, going to
trade in any English or Siamese country, and applying to
build godowns or houses, or to buy or hire shops or houses
in which to place his merchandise, the Siamese or English
officers and rulers shall be at liberty to deny him permis-
sion to stay. If they permit him to stay, he shall land
and take up his residence according to such terms as may
be mutually ageed on, and the Siamese or English officers
and rulers will assist and take proper care of him, prevent-
ing the inhabitants'of the country from oppressing him,
arid preventing him from oppressing the inhabitants of the
country. Whenever a Siamese or English merchant or
subject who has nothing to detain him, requests permission
to leave the country and to embark with his property on
board of any vessel, he shall be allowed to do so with
facility.
ARTICLE VIII.
If a merchant desire to go and trade in any place or
country belonging to the English or Siamese, and his ship,
boat, or junk meet with any injury whatever, the English
or Siamese officers shall afford adequate assistance and
protection. Should any vessel belonging to the Siamese
or English be wrecked in any place or country, where the
English or Siamese may collect any of the property be-
longing to such vessel, the English or Siamese officers shall
make proper inquiry and cause the property to be restored
to its owner, or in case of his death to his heir, and the
owner or heir will give a proper remuneration to the per-
sons who may have collected the property. If any Siamese
or English subject die in an English or Siamese country,
whatever property he may leave shall be delivered to his
heir. If the heir be not living in the same country and
unable to come, and appoint a person by letter to receive
the property, the whole of it shall be delivered to such
person.
ARTICLE IX.
Merchants, subject to the English, desiring to come and
trade in any Siamese country, with which it has not been
the custom to have trade and intercourse, must first go and
inquire of the governor of the country. Should any
country have no merchandize, the governor shall inform
the ship that has come to trade that there is none. Should
any country have merchandize sufficient for a ship, the
governor will allow her to come and trade.

ARTICLE X.
The English and Siamese mutually agree that there shall
be an unrestricted trade between them in the English
countries of Prince of Wales' Island, Malacca, and Singa-
pore, and the Siamese countries of Ligor, Merdilong Sin-
gora, Patani, Junkceylon, Queda, and other Siamese pro-
vinces. Asiatic merchants of the English countries
not being Burmese, Peguers, or descendants of Euro-
peans, shall be allowed to trade freely overland and
by means of the rivers. Asiatic merchants, not
being Burmese, Peguers, or descendants of Europeans, de-
sirous to enter into and trade with the Siamese dominions
from the countries of Mergui, Tavoy, Tenasserim, and Ye,
which are now subject to the English, will be allowed to do
so freely, overland and by water, upon the English furnish-
ing them with proper certificates. But merchants are for-
bidden to bring opium, which is positively a contraband
article in the territories of Siam ; and should a merchant
introduce any, the Governors shall seize, burn, and de-
stroy the whole of it.
ARTICLE Al. _

If an Englishman desire to transmit a letter to any per.
son in a Siamese or other country, such person only, and
no other, shall open and look into the letter. If a Siamese
desire to transmit a letter to any person in an English or
other country, such person only, and no other, shall open
and look into the letter.
ARTICLE XII.

Siam shall not go and obstruct or interrupt commerce in
the states of Tringano and Calantan. English merchants
and subjects shall have trade and intercourse in future
with the same facility and freedom as they have heretofore
bad, and the English shall not go and, molest, attack, or
disturb those states upon any pretence whatevor.