than twenty per cent. on the
importer's prices admitted on the retail; in doubtful cases, to
be estimated by courts, if sued for, by allowing from 80 to 100
per cent. on the prime cost of English or India goods, and 20 per
cent. on the retail. Notes of hand for debts so contracted not
cognizable as evidence, unless the account of articles be
produced with prices annexed. All merchandize to be landed at the
Hospital wharf, and no where else, under penalty of confiscation;
and those articles which are brought from the eastward of the
Cape of Good Hope, are to pay five per cent. _ad valorem_ on
the prices laid in at, exclusive of wharfage and wine and spirit
duties. All British manufactures exempt.

_Musters_.--Persons neglecting to attend musters, if
free, to be treated as vagrants; and, if prisoners, jail-gang
twelve months. Persons returning false accounts, to be dealt with
according to the decision of a bench of magistrates.

_Natives_--not to be treated with inhumanity or
injustice, under the penalty of prosecution and indictment; and
the natives of Otaheite, New Zealand, etc. are all to be
considered as under the protection of the crown; to be properly
treated and maintained by their employers, and not to be sent on
any voyage without the governor's permission.

_Parramatta._--Persons passing the barracks to give a
satisfactory account of themselves to the commanding officer at
that place, when required; and no person to carry a musket
without permission from the magistrate.

_Passage-boats._--Not to convey any person, unless a
settler, without a pass; penalty, confiscation. The boats to be
kept tight; carry four oars, one mast and sail; boatmen to treat
passengers civilly; to give notice half an hour before they
depart, by bell ringing; not to stop more than ten minutes by the
way, nor to go alongside a vessel, without acquainting the
wharfinger; and the proprietors to keep entry-books, under the
penalty of forfeiting the bond and recognizances entered into at
the time their license was granted. The following charges to be
made: Each passenger to pay 1s.; children 6d.; luggage 1s. per
cwt.; wheat or shelled maize 6d. per bushel; maize in cob 4d. per
bushel; each chair 6d.; sheep and goats 6d. each; pigs and
packages, according to their size; liquids 1d. per gallon; porter
3s. per hhd.; planks 2s. 6d. per 100 feet; fowls and ducks 1s.
per dozen; geese and turkies 1s. 2d. per dozen; parcels weighing
2lbs. 3d.