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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 |