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Customs-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
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 trans-shipment of goods
may be carried on only between sunrise and sunset.

4. All cargo landed or shipped shall be examined and
passed by the Custom-House officers within 12 hours of daylight,
after the receipt at the Custom-House of the proper application.
The manner in which such application 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 coin, or bullion, the relative values of which will be settled
by the Consul and the proper Siamese officers. The Siamese will

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