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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
COMMERCE OF MEXICO.
Causes of its decline—Revenues—Imports and exports—Average commercial returns for one year from Vera Cruz, Tampico, Matamoras, San Blas, and Mazatlan—Statement of charges on foreign shipping—Example of tonnage duty.
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CHAPTER XXXIX.
MEXICAN COMMERCE—COTTON MANUFACTURE.
Manufactures under the old Spanish Government—Amount of exports and imports—Account and statistics of cotton manufacture—Mexican cotton crops—Average prices—Water power—Puebla—Climate and raw material—Table of Mexican weights and measures—Table of coinage
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CHAPTER XL.
COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS PROHIBITIONS, AND IMPORT DUTIES.
Admission of vessels—Number of ports open to foreign commerce—Goods free of duties—Invoices—List of prohibited articles—Exempted articles—Measurement of goods—List of duties in Mexican and British monies, on admitted articles—Articles of flax, &c.—Wood, &c.—Silks—Of cotton manufacture
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