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London, England, 1825-03-28 00:00:00

Tannuesses, masa% ass appiiratils, bdattNttt is adults or
straggen. prpfeesers of any iberal or meehanit art, who mat strive
at the ports of the Itersbne, with the 10010d0,1 of establishing
tic=in its territory, and exercising their profession.
machines and apporatus,trm and printexe ink.
Precious metals, either coined sr in Millen.
Lead and muskets. If the muskets be of a superior quality, fit
to be received by the Government authorities, it is enacted that
they shall be paid for faithfully within the space of four months ; and
soy quentity of merchandise of a value equal to that of the muskets
and lead imported in the same vessel, shall pay S per cent. less than
the regular importation duties; and if no merchandise be imported
In the same vessel, an equivalent to be paid within four months.
AILTICLIN PSOODIOTID TO BB MILIOSTIO.
i Corey, cacao, indigo. man, (d) and molasses.
All groductions and manufactures of Spain and her dependencies.
Gunpowder.
Tobacco, whether in leaf, sepn, mg, or type.
Foreign spirits extracted front the sugar.cans,or their compounds.
Foreign salt.

awry. (e)
Three per cent. upon the valise of imported articles; which, if
disposed of in the eea-port, the ditty to be there paid either imme-
diosdy, or by giving security, within the term of six months, one
per cent. to be paid every six months ; and if disposed of in the
Wterior, to be paid there under similar conditions.

DIFFUS Or SZPOITA2IOII.
(f) Undressed Hides . .10 per cent. upon she market price.
(f ) Cacao . . . 16 ditto -
(f Cam . . . 6 ditto
(f ) Indigo . . . S ditto
(f ) Dye-wood • . S ditto ...
Mules . . 20 dollars a bead
Horses . . . 16 ditto •
Asses . . . 6 ditto
Cattle . . 14 ditto
Coined Gold . . 3 per cent.
Gold is bars from the province
of Veragua . . 3 ditto
Slier from the 'lsthmus and
Guayaquil . . 3 ditto
°Mother articles . . 4 ditto
AMICLIS /PLIMPTZD /SON PAYS MG MITI'S OF IMORTATION.
Cotton, rice, sodomize, or Indian corn. .
-Awrsokss eaommeen TO as neowno.
Mares and cows.

Uncoined gold, except bars of gold from the provinceof Veragna.
All silver except from Guayaquil and the Isthmus.
Bahia, tinder penalty of losing the metal, and paying for each
Rind a line of 50 dollars.
It ii masted that all vessels before sailing shall be examined.

10XXAGR DUTY.

- 4 teals per to
1 ditto.

Foreign vessels pay
National -
- - -
Ditto proceeding from one port to another of
the Republic, pay for each ton exceeding 20
Ditto, not having SO tons burden, pay no ton-
nage duty. The Colombian ton is SO quintals.
The registers, manifests, and license of merchant
vessels are taken possession of by the collectors of the
Custom-houses, and not returned until the tonnage is
paid ; or they are delivered to the Consul of the nation
to which the vessel bel3ngs, who becomes responsible
for the payment of the duty. (g)

of ditto.

DUTY.

Collected upon the old Spanish system, and appears to average
about two dollars for every 120 tons.

SPICSAL TRIIIINIALS Or COMMIRCIF
ire established in various cities and towns, to decide exclusively as
:ommercial disputes and differences.

MULTI= ON ?HI DESILAUDRIIII or CUSTODMIIIIUSE DUTIES.
ustom.house officers.—Lou of situation ; double the defrauded

Owners of the contraband property.—First offence: confiscation
of the contraband articles • and if they exceed in value the fifth
part of the cargo, the loss of the whole cargo, and the transaction to
be published in the Government Gazettes. Second offence : confis-
cation of the contraband property ; and if it exceeds the tenth part
of the cargo, the loss of the whole. Third offence : confiscation of
the contraband goods; and if they exceed one-twelfth of the
the loss of the whole, and suspension for tell years from the
of a cititem
Consignees are subject to die same pehalties as the owners
are also responsible to the consignor.
Aiders.—A fine of from 200 dollars to 500 dollars; and if that
cannot pay, four to six months' imprisonment.
Captains and Supercargoes concealing the number of pieces,
packages, chests, or trunks, in the manifest, are punished with the
loss of the noel.

ON COLOMBIAN BILISRIA.

Any vessel, wherever it may have been built, can be inscribed
as a national vessel of Colombia, provided it be the property of a
Colombian citizen, the owner making oath that it in no manner
belongs to any foreigner, and binding himself that the vessel shall
never bear any other flag than the Colombian ; and that whenever
she sails, more than one-half of the crew shall consist of citizens or
natives of the country. Any one offending against these provisions,
shall be fined 50 dams for every 10 tons of the vessel, besides being
sull/cot to the punishment inflicted on perjurers.
Intendants of the maritime departments can grant, in the
name of the Republic, and for the term of four years, merchant
registers for navigation to foreign vessels, whose owners intend
to naturalise themselves. For this purpose the proprietors must
present the registers of their vessels to the Castom-house of the
port where they reside.
The titles of navigation must be renewed whenever the vessel is
transferred from one citizen to another, or any important alterations
be made in its quality and construction, or its:neme changed,or the
number of its tons diminishedor increased.
No Colombian merchant vessel can navigate without the register
patent, and roll of its crew, under penalty of bring embargoed, and
the confiscation of the vessel, its sails, rigging, and utensils.
Vergeh trading with the Mosquito and Guajira coasts must enter
and take out licenses at some of the Colombian ports, for which one
dollar and a half per ton must be paid. independently of unavoid-
able expenses of pilotage, anchorage, &c.
The following are the ports of Colombia open to foreign com-
merce:—
Irt
mut Arcarric.—Pampata, Juan-griego, Antlgua-guayana,
Santo-comas de Angostura, Cumana, Barcelona, La-guaira, Puerto-
cabello, Coro, Maracaibo, Riohaca, Santamarta, Cartagena, Chagre,
Portovedo.
In nu Pacinc.—Guayaquil, Esmeralda', Buenaventura, Pa-
nama.