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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. | ||
| Thread, cotton, or of cotton and wool, including the paper packages | lb. | 0 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Men's and women's stockings of all qualities and colours | dozen | 1 | 50 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| Children's do | do. | 1 | 50 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| Muslins, linos, gauzes, and other white and coloured cotton cloths, of an open texture, fancy and plain, without regard to the number of threads, at and under a vara wide | do. | 0 | 12 1/2 |
0 | 0 | 6 1/2 |
| Printed, striped, and checked handkerchiefs of fast colours, from twenty-six threads on the quarter-inch, at and under a vara wide | do. | 0 | 12 1/2 |
0 | 0 | 6 1/2 |
| Plain white handkerchiefs, with white or coloured borders, exceeding-thirty threads on the quarter-inch, at and under a vara wide | each | 0 | 09 | 0 | 0 | 4 1/2 |
| White handkerchiefs, twilled, or with raised stripes or checks, at and under a vara wide | do. | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 1/2 |