European Commerce: Or, Complete Mercantile Guide to the Continent of Europe; Comprising an Account of the Trade of All the Principal Cities of the Continent, Copious Tables of Their Monies, Exchanges, Weights, and Measures, with Their Proportion to Those of England, the Local Regulations of Each Place, Their Tariffs of Duties, Methods of Buying and Selling, Tares and Other Allowances; Together with Numerous Official Documents, Ordinances, Etc., Forming a Complete Code of Commercial Information : to which is Added an Appendix, Containing Several Important Commercial Laws, and the Tariff of Duties, as Regulated by the Congress of the United States |
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... stuffs , which the merchants of Tobolsk either buy or take in exchange for other goods , and after- wards sell at Samarcand . Tobolsk is the depôt for all furs delivered to the Russian government . -Irkutzk and Tomsk have nearly the ...
... stuffs , which the merchants of Tobolsk either buy or take in exchange for other goods , and after- wards sell at Samarcand . Tobolsk is the depôt for all furs delivered to the Russian government . -Irkutzk and Tomsk have nearly the ...
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... stuffs , some tan- neries , & c . There is here a great interchange of the several Russian articles of commerce , and extensive purchases are often made for Petersburg or Archangel account , of tallow , leather , & c . which the ...
... stuffs , some tan- neries , & c . There is here a great interchange of the several Russian articles of commerce , and extensive purchases are often made for Petersburg or Archangel account , of tallow , leather , & c . which the ...
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... stuffs is not great , as the Russian manufactories are not yet very considerable : logwood and cochineal are the principal articles at Petersburg ; raw cotton , cotton - twist , and white cotton goods , are fre- quently good articles ...
... stuffs is not great , as the Russian manufactories are not yet very considerable : logwood and cochineal are the principal articles at Petersburg ; raw cotton , cotton - twist , and white cotton goods , are fre- quently good articles ...
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... stuffs , satin , gros de tours taffetas , le - 25 ditto vantin , serge , crape and silk chi- nelle .... ditto SILK , spun , raw , or twisted , and ≥ duty free when raw - 2 per cent . every other kind SULPHUR , raw refined SEEDS ...
... stuffs , satin , gros de tours taffetas , le - 25 ditto vantin , serge , crape and silk chi- nelle .... ditto SILK , spun , raw , or twisted , and ≥ duty free when raw - 2 per cent . every other kind SULPHUR , raw refined SEEDS ...
Page 108
... stuffs , and numerous tanneries , which are tolerably flourishing . At Berlin , very fine porcelain is made . The exports consist of wheat , barley , peas , and other grain ; timber , staves , ashes , flax , and hemp . The wheat is ...
... stuffs , and numerous tanneries , which are tolerably flourishing . At Berlin , very fine porcelain is made . The exports consist of wheat , barley , peas , and other grain ; timber , staves , ashes , flax , and hemp . The wheat is ...
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9 Exch a-half Amsterdam Antwerp bales Baltic banco Barley barrels brandy Bremen cantaro casks Cent centner chests cloth coffee colonial produce commerce considerable trade copper cotton currency ditto ditto dollars DRY MEASURE ducats Dutch duty Eimer ells English feet English wine gallons English yards entrepôts equal Exch exchange exported flax Flemish florins foreign France French Fustic Germany gold grain Groschen Hamburg hemp Hides hogsheads Holland imports Indigo iron kilog kinds kingdom Königsberg land leather linen Linseed LIQUID MEASURE LONG MEASURE manufactured marcs Memel merchants monies Netherlands piastres pieces Pimento pipe Poods ports pounds principal Prohibited quantities Riga river rixdollars Roubles Russia Russian S. D. ditto salt scheffels schillings shippound ships silk silver sold soldi stivers stuffs sugar Swedish Tallow tare Tariff timber Tobacco twelve vessels Vienna Viertels weight wheat Winchester quarters wine gallons wool woollen
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Page 613 - ... are practised towards the most favoured nations. They shall be entitled to occupy dwellings and warehouses, and to dispose of their personal property of every kind and description by sale, gift, exchange, or will, and in any other way whatever, without the smallest loss or hindrance being given them on that head. They shall not be obliged to pay, under any pretence whatever, other taxes or rates than those which are paid, or than hereafter may be paid, by the most favoured nations in the dominions...
Page 613 - Majesty, subject to the same precautions of police, which are practised towards the most favoured nations. They shall be entitled to occupy dwellings and warehouses, and to dispose of their personal property of every kind and description, by sale, gift, exchange, or will, and in any other way whatever, without the smallest loss or hindrance being given them on that head.
Page 616 - The present separate and additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted, word for word, in the convention of this day— it shall be ratified, and the ratification thereof shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms.
Page 614 - L. sentence of the competent tribunals. His Sicilian Majesty engages on all these occasions to guarantee to the subjects of his Britannic Majesty who shall reside in his states and dominions, the preservation of their property and personal security, in the same manner as those are guaranteed to his su-bjects, and to all foreigners belonging to the most favoured and most highly privileged nations.
Page 615 - Majesty has promised in the seventh article of the convention, signed this day between his Britannic Majesty and his Sicilian Majesty, it is declared by this present separate and additional article, that by the concession of ten per cent, of diminution, it is understood that in case the amount of the duty should be twenty per cent, upon the value of the merchandize, the effect of the reduction of ten per cent, is to reduce the duty from twenty to eighteen; and so for other cases in proportion. And...
Page 613 - Majesty engages that they shall have a free and undoubted right to travel and to reside in the territories and dominions of His said Majesty, subject to the same precautions of police which are practised towards the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nations.
Page 635 - ... cup, of the acorn, the better. It is of a bright drab colour, which it preserves so long as it is kept dry ; and dampness injures it, as it then turns black, and loses both its strength and value. It is principally used by tanners, and is always in demand. Though a very bulky article, it is uniformly bought and sold by weight. A ship can only take a small proportion of her register tonnage of valonia; so that its freight per ton is always high.
Page 613 - Art. 5. With respect to the personal privileges to be enjoyed by the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, his Sicilian Majesty promises that they shall have a free and undoubted right to travel, and to reside in the territories and dominions of his said Majesty, subject to the same precautions of police which are practised towards the most favoured nations.
Page 614 - ... of January 1816, upon the total of the merchandize or productions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, her Colonies, Possessions, and Dependencies, imported into the States of His said Sicilian Majesty, according to the tenor of Article 4.
Page 612 - King of the Two Sicilies promises, that British commerce in general, and the British subjects who carry it on, shall be treated throughout his dominions upon the same footing as the most favoured nations, not only with respect to the persons and property of the said British subjects, but also with regard to every species of article in which they may traffic...