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PICTURES OF LIFE IN MEXICO.
| Articles. | Weight, measure, or number. | Import duty, Mexican money. | Import duty, British money. | |||
| Dol. | c. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Eatables, not prohibited, such as hams and sausages, the latter called "chorizos," "chorizones," and "buttifarras" | 100 lbs. | 8 | 00 | 1 | 13 | 4 |
| Preserves for eating, including weight of vessel containing them | do. | 25 | 00 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Sweetmeats, ditto, ditto | do. | 50 | 00 | 10 | 8 | 4 |
| Pickles, in vinegar and salt | do. | 16 | 00 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| Manufactured sperm | do. | 25 | 00 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Sperm in cakes | do. | 12 | 50 | 2 | 14 | 2 |
| Fruits, preserved in brandy or other liquors, weight of vessel included | do. | 23 | 00 | 3 | 15 | 10 |
| Iron of all kinds, not manufactured | quintal | 1 | 50 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| Do. in plates, wrought and cast, and hoop-iron | do. | 3 | 00 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| Tin plates of all kinds and sizes | do. | 4 | 50 | 0 | 18 | 9 |
| Books or pamphlets of first lessons or of devotion | 100 lbs. | 8 | 00 | 1 | 13 | 4 |
| Fine wood for veneers | 1000 sq.ft. | 30 | 00 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Building timber, admitted at Tampico and Matamoras, by the decree of the 3rd June 1840 | do. | 10 | 00 | 2 | 1 | 8 |