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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. |
| COMMERCE OF MEXICO. |
| Causes of its decline—Revenues—Imports and exports—Average commercial returns for one year from Vera Cruz, Tampico, Matamoras, San Blas, and Mazatlan—Statement of charges on foreign shipping—Example of tonnage duty. |
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| CHAPTER XXXIX. |
| MEXICAN COMMERCE—COTTON MANUFACTURE. |
| Manufactures under the old Spanish Government—Amount of exports and imports—Account and statistics of cotton manufacture—Mexican cotton crops—Average prices—Water power—Puebla—Climate and raw material—Table of Mexican weights and measures—Table of coinage |
| 207 |
| CHAPTER XL. |
| COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS PROHIBITIONS, AND IMPORT DUTIES. |
| Admission of vessels—Number of ports open to foreign commerce—Goods free of duties—Invoices—List of prohibited articles—Exempted articles—Measurement of goods—List of duties in Mexican and British monies, on admitted articles—Articles of flax, &c.—Wood, &c.—Silks—Of cotton manufacture |
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