Ist. "The official correspondence between the procurator of thesonate, and the Jocal native authorities, shall be conducted on terms of mutual equality.
2ud. Phe tonnage-dues on the twenty-five registered ships shall be paid according: to the new tariff, the same as on European vessels at Whampoa, with a deduction of one-and-a-half mace per ton, which makes three-and-a-half mace of silver for every ton. All ships that visit Macao, and are not registered, shall continue to' pay the homage-dues of the new tariff, viz: five mace per ton, All ships numbered, or not numbered, that shall visit the five ports (now open to the foreign trade, viz.: Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai}, shall also pay tonnage-does according h to the new tariff, at five mace per ton.
3rd. "The duty on goods imported, (in Portuguese bottoms), by Chinese mer chants, shall be paid to the hoppo (Chinese custom house) of Macao, according to.the new tariff; and goods not mentioned in the said tariff, shall be charged ten or twenty per cent.,' ad valorem, according to their ity, without any' additional charge.
Portuguese lorchas, furnished with passports, are permitted to go up to Canton on paying the tonnage-dues, according to the new regulations established for cargo-boats, N, B,—The burden of these lorchas having been agreed upon at 75 tons for the smallest, an for the largest, and those not exceeding the Intter figure shall be charged one mace per ton every time they enter the port; and those measuring more than 160 tons, shall be charged as vessels navigating the high seas, mace per ton; and lorchas measuring under 75 tons, shall be charged the same as those of that burden.
4th, "The Portuguese shall be allowed to buy the necessary materials, and employ workmen' of their own choice, whenever they shall find it necessary to construct new buildings or vessels, or repair the old ones, without requiring chops, or licenses, from the local authorities; all fees and additional expenses which the men hitherto have been in the habit of paying, being abolished.
Sth. " Portuguese ships shall be allowed to go and trade at Canton, Amoy, Foochow, ningpo, and Shanghai, presided they are ubject to the regulations ut the new tariff, with respect to the payment of duties on goods, and the tonnage-dues; with regard to Foochow, however, that port not being yet opened' to European commerce, the Portuguese vessels must keep from it for purposes of trade, until it shall be open to all other Enropem foreign nations. [Foochow is now opened.
Gth, "The number and quality of goods which the Chinese merchants are in-the habit "of importing into Macao are wn-Yimited. Such goods as must pass through the Canton custom-house, shall then pay the duties according to the mew tariff, and when sent down for exportation must be accompanied with a certificate of clearance from the said custom-house. All such goods as have not passed Uhrough that custom-house shall pay duties to the hoppo of Macao, Published by order of the most illustrious and loyal senate; and extracted from the dispatches last received from the Imperial Commissioner of Canton, dated 13th April, and received the 5th May, 1845. Jozé Martinho Marques, interpreter."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.