TABLE II.-List of Articles which are not liable to Duty at the Royal Hanoverian Elbe Toll at Brunshausen.

1. Refuse and waste not specially charged with duty; in particular, ashes; oyster and muscle-shells for lime-burning; blood of slaughtered cattle, both fluid and dried; brandy rinsing; cocoa rind; lint; entrails, animal dung, and other manuring articles which are not otherwise enumerated; ashes washed in lye or lime pits; guano; bone-scum or sugar-bakers' clay; sawdust, iron-filings; and slates. Also schliff (the dust or powder made in polishing coarse iron goods); lees; herring pickle; tanners' bark; horn shavings; rasped hartshorn, &c. Hoofs and feet; clay; bones (whole and ground, including bone dust); furriers' waste, and animal sinews; bark-cakes (soaked bark); rags, and other refuse for paper-making; paper-cuttings; waste paper; old cordage; old fishing nets, &c.; oil cakes; and oil cake flour; malt dust and husks; old gold and silver lace, for melting; ends of cloth; and list, &c.

2. Personal effects and travelling baggage, viz.: furniture that has been used; clothes and linen that has been worn; manufacturing and other tools that have been used; also clothes and linen of all kinds which captains, sailors, and passengers, carry with them; also tools which travelling workmen use, as well as tools, instruments, and articles of exhibition, which travelling artisans carry with them; and likewise articles belonging to a ship's inventory; packages; empty casks; or articles of provision for a journey.

3. Eggs.

4. Earths, as gypsum (raw); loam; marl; sand; also regulus of cobalt; and dross of metals.

5. Field fruits, on which no precise duty is imposed; live plants, &c. trees and shrubs for transplanting; branches and shoots; flowers, growing in pots, and for orangeries; hay; grass; and fodder; grain in sheaves, and other field produce (including flax and hemp in bunches, bundles, &c.), as they are directly brought from the field; fresh, salted, and boiled vegetables, and vegetable produce; berries (fresh); eatable roots and bulbs; fresh vegetables; blossoms; and roots, &c., for medical or manufacturing uses; also straw, chaff, and chopped straw; shave-grass; acorns; pignuts or earthnuts; moss (mountain, coral moss, and water livewort, &c.); sponges; and mushrooms (fresh and dried); &c.

NOTE. See the tariff for grain and pulse; seeds; spinning materials; drugs; &c.

6. Fish, alive and fresh (under which latter denomination are included such as are sprinkled with salt, or laid in salt to keep them during their transport, if in baskets), also lobsters and crabs.

7. Garden produce, as fresh fruit; also melons; cucumbers; gourds; &c.

NOTE. For vegetables; greens; eatable roots. See Field
Fruits.

8. Oakum; tow-yarn; and stalks; and also silk cocoons.

9. Wood, as fire-wood; brushwood of all kinds; and likewise willow

twigs.

10. Lime and gypsum burnt.

11. Milk.

12. Patterns, pattern cards and samples of all kinds, which are only intended for patterns or samples, being in quantity of not more than two pounds weight of such goods.

NOTE. On all other than the above descriptions, the duty payable on the goods of which they are the patterns,

is levied.

13. Paper, written on (deeds and manuscripts).

14. Ships and small vessels, or boats being laden on board, and forming part of the cargo or freight of other ships; as well as large ships (including steam-boats) which are brought as goods or part of a cargo, on board other vessels.

15. Stones and articles made of stone, not specially rated, viz., broken and hewn stone, of every kind, such as lime; slate; also tiles and bricks; cement and tarrass-stone; spar and cank; soapstone; talk-stone; puzzolano; alabaster and marble; mill-stones; grinding stones and sharpening stones; gun-flints; marble-plates;

also cement, tarrass, and tile-powder; serpentine stoneware; slate pencils; and slates.

16. Straw; bast, &c., and coarse goods made of the same; in particular, rushes, reeds, and straw for plaiting; mats; carpets; and ropes of straw, or of reed, bast, or rushes, &c.

17. Live animals (with the exception of testaceous animals); bees in the hive; leeches; and all descriptions of cattle for draught or slaughter.

18. Turf and turf-coal.

TABLE III-Specification of the Dues to be paid to the Royal GuardShip for the Elbe Toll at Brunshausen.

1

By every captain, or person belonging to the ship's com-
pany, clearing the vessel, who shall be taken by the
royal guard-ship's crew, in the royal boat, from on board
to the toll house, and, after the clearing back again to
his vessel

2 Similarly by every captain, who having to effect his clear-
ance on board the Elbe toll guard-ship, shall have been
conveyed by the royal crew, in the royal boat, to such
ship and back to his own vessel

Every captain is at liberty to use his own boat to take
him to the custom-house or to the guard-ship, in
which case he pays nothing.

For fetching the return certificates for the ship's going
down the Elbe, must be paid:

for ships above 15 lasts
under

Every captain is at liberty to take the return certificate
himself on board the guard-ship, and in that case he
pays nothing.

Every vessel not already exempt from the obligation of
bringing-to off the guard-ship, which shall have obtained
such exemption by special application, shall pay to the
crew of the royal guard-ship for going to meet such
vessel ..
Captains who go on shore in their own boat, but who
require one of the crew of the king's ships to show them
the way, pay

Captains who go on shore in their own boat, and after
making their clearance, do not themselves bring away
the certificates of clearing from the custom-house to the
guard-ship, but cause the same to be fetched by the
crew of the guard-ship, shall pay, viz. :

for ships above 15 lasts

TABLE IV.-Table of Normal Weights for calculating the Tolls at the Royal Hanoverian Elbe Toll at Brunshausen, upon those Articles with respect to which no declaration of weight takes place.

NOTE.

The declaration of the goods enumerated in this Table is always to be made according to the unity which forms the basis of the Normal rate of Weights of such goods, and a simultaneous declaration of the real Net Weight will not be taken into consideration, and is therefore not necessary.

A.

GRAIN, HUSK-FRUITS, AND SEEDS.

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1 last 60 Hamburgh barrels

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31 hectolitres = 11 English Imperial quar

ters = 236 alqueires in Lisbon=444 sacchi in Leghorn=47 quarteras in Barcelona 25 tonnen in Copenhagen 22 tonnen in Sweden, and 164

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tschetwerts in Russia.

In declarations by litres, 228 litres are reckoned=30 velts, or quarter cask.