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DUTIES ON ADMITTED GOODS.
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Articles. Weight, measure, or number. Import duty, Mexican money. Import duty, British money.
Dol. c. £ s. d.
Shelled almonds, sweet and bitter 100 lbs. 6 00 1 5 0
Almonds, in the husk. do. 4 00 0 15 8
Tincal lb. 0 12

1/2

0 0 6

1/4

Bad fish, and any other dried or smoked 100 lbs. 4 00 0 16 8
Whalebone, in the rough or manufactured lb. 0 14 0 0 7
Common glass bottles (empty) dozen. 0 75 0 3

1/2

Demi-johns do. 1 00 0 4 2
Guayaquil, Para, or Island cocoa 100 lbs. 4 00 0 16 8
Cocoa of any other kind do. 8 00 1 13 4
Paint-boxes, with paints in phials, or catres of from twelve to forty-eight, and without any other addition dozen. 3 33 0 13 11
Do., with paints in flasks or cakes, with other articles each. 1 33 0 5 7
Cinnamon and cassia of all kinds lb. 1 00 0 4 2
Bees'-wax, bleached and unbleached 100 lbs. 22 00 4 11 8
Virgin-wax lb. 20 00 4 3 4
Beer and cider, in quart bottles, without allowance for leakage 100 lbs. 8 00 1 13 4
Beer and cider in barrel, without allowing for leakage do. 4 00 0 16 8
Cloves lb. 0 50 0 2 1