That in case the Commanders and Officers of China Ships, and they only, are not able to invest so far as te the Amount of the under-mentioned Sums, respectively, in Goods, according to the above Regulations, the Court will then permit them to carry out Bullion to make up the Amount, viz.

And the Commanders of China Ships are hereby allowed further to carry out, separately, to the Amount of Three Thousand Pounds in Bullion, for the Purchase of Gold; but the Court do hereby declare it to be their Meaning and Intention, that the whole Quantities of Goods and Bullion, as well as the Coral and other Articles hereinafter-mentioned, so to be carried out, shall not exceed the Allowances of Tonnage made to each Person, as above-mentioned, respectively.

And the Commanders and under-mentioned Officers of Ships in the Company's Service are allowed to invest the following Sums in Coral, Amber, Coral Beads, Amber Beads, Pearls, Emeralds, and any Sort of Precious Stones, they producing an Invoice to the Amount upon Oath, and paying the same Duties to the Company, and Consulage, or Commission, in India and China, as the Traders in those Articles pay for the same; and on all Exceedings of these Allowances, they shall further pay Freight to the Company for the same, viz.

Commander

£2000

The Court also allow the Commanders and Officers of Ships in their Service to occupy homewards the under-mentioned Quantities of Tonnage, respectively, in any Sort of Goods, subject to the Limitation in the Article of ChinaWare, as hereafter-mentioned, except the Articles in the Margin *.

To the Commanders and Officers of China Ships, viz.

* Ships which lade from India may not bring Tea, China Raw-Silk, or Nankeen Cloth.- Ships which lade from China may not bring China Raw-Silk, Musk, Camphor, Arrack, Ar

To the Commanders and Officers of other Ships, viz.

The Importers paying the Customs, and to the Company Three per Cent. for Warehouse-room, &c. on the gross Amount at the Sale of all Goods, the Produce or Manufacture of India; and on all Goods the Produce or Manufacture of China, not particularly mentioned hereafter, the Old Duty of Five per Cent. and Two per Cent, Warehouse-room.

Arrack, on paying the Custom and Excise, and to the Company Two per Cent. Warehouse-room, and Six Pence per Gallon thereon.

Lacquered-Ware and China-Ware, paying Four per Cent. Warehouse-room, together with the Custom, aud Five per Cent. Duty to the Company.

And as large Quantities of Rattans, Whanghees, Canes, Bamboes, Sapan, or other Articles, have been brought Home in the Company's Ships, under the Denomination of Dunnage, far beyond what is necessary for the Protection of the Cargo and Stores, occupying Tonnage to the Exclusion of Goods, or lumbering the Ship, the Court have resolved, that unless what is brought Home of those Articles appear, absolutely and bona fide, necessary for, and used as Dunnage, (and which, it must be observed, will be subject, to the existing or any future Duties), any Exceedings of such requisite Quantity shall be charged against the Tonnage of the Commanders and Officers.

China and Bencoolen, and them only, the under-mentioned Quantities, viz.

Paying 7 per Cent. Paying 17 per Cent.

on Sale Value.

Total.

on Sale Value.

On all Exceedings of the above-mentioned Quantities of Tea, a further Charge of Twenty per Cent. on the Sale Value will be made; and should any Commander or Officer bring more Hyson Tea than double the above Quantity allowed to each, such Hyson Tea will be charged with a Duty of Fifty-seven per Cent. on the Sale Value.

The Court permit the Commanders and Officers of each Ship to bring Piece Goods, on paying the Customs, and Three Pounds per Cent. for Warehouse-room, &c. so long as the Court shall think proper to allow Traders, under the Act of the 33d George III. Cap. 52, to import the same.

And the Court declare, That in case the Ship does not in the Whole, exceed the Quantity of Tea, or the total Ton nage allowed, no Charge shall be made for any particular Person's Exceedings.

All the above Articles are to be included in, and reckoned as a Part of the Tonnage allowed as before-mentioned: and in case of any Exceeding in the said respective Tonnage so allowed, the Court of Directors will charge a further Duty, over and above all other Duties, of Forty Pounds for each Ton, and so on in Proportion for a greater or less Quan, tity.

The Commanders and Officers shall be at liberty to pay any Part of the Produce of their outward-bound Adventure into the Company's Cash, in India, for which they shall have Certificates granted them on the Court of Directors, at the usual Rates of Exchange, not exceeding Five Thousand Pounds Sterling during the Course of the Voyage, to be divided among them, in the same Proportions as are above settled in respect to their Private-Trade outwards.

Exclusive of the above Allowance of Private-Trade to the Commanders and Officers, as the Company do not, at present, import any China-Ware on their own Account, they do, on their Part, permit the Commanders and Officers to import that Article, during the Court's Pleasure, provided it is brought as a Flooring to the Teas, and does not exceed in height Thirteen Inches; subject to the following Limitations:

A Ship of 800 Tons, not to exceed 20 Tons.

Ditto 1200 ditto.

Ditto 1400 ditto.

.30 .40

Any Quantity brought beyond these Proportions will be invariably charged at the Rate of Thirty Pounds per Ton.

The Court also, on their Part, permit each Commander to import Two Pipes of Madeira Wine; which Two Pipes are not to be reckoned as Part of the above Allowance.

And as an Encouragement to the Commanders and Officers to do their utmost to lade all Goods tendered by the Company's Agents, and to bring home as much surplus Tonnage as their Ships will safely and conveniently stow, the Court, on their Part, permit the further Importation of Goods on account of the Commanders and Officers, according to their respective Privileges, not exceeding, in the Whole, Thirty Tons for each Ship, provided such Goods are stowed in Places not allotted to the Company's Cargo, or that they have not Goods tendered to them by the Company's Agents in India or China, or in the Event of the Ship not bringing home her expected Quantity of Goods, they produce satisfactory Proof to the Committee of PrivateTrade, that such Deficiency was not occasioned throngh any Default of the Commander or Officers; but the Court have resolved that the Article of Pepper shall not be allowed