The diplomatic agents of Ecuador can introduce free of duty when returning to the country up to 400 kilograms of luggage.

The natural and manufactured products of Peru, when not prohibited, can be introduced by the dry ports or overland. This exception will continue while the products of Ecuador have the same rights. When the reciprocity ceases, the introduction from Peru to Ecuador will cease also, except the salt introduced from Peru over the dry ports or overland, which will pay 1 cent per kilogram. Articles for the use of foreign religious institutions, established by virtue of former contracts, may enjoy this privilege.

The sacred vases and priests' vestments, which may be introduced directly for church service, previ ously authorized by the Government or demanded by the bishop or his vicar-general, and accom panied by the invoice and a copy of bill of lading.

The effects for the personal use of foreign ministers and diplomatic agents from foreign countries accredited to the Government of Ecuador when there is reciprocity on the part of the nation they represent.

The foreign diplomatic agents will present to the director of the custom-house or to the custom-bouse guards, together with the passport, a list of the number of packages with marks and numbers, and in case that their effects should not come with them they will manifest them to the minister of foreign affairs, stating that the articles which they import are for their own personal use and consumption that they may ask a corresponding order for the director of the custom-house. The articles which may come for the account of the Government destined for public utility or adornment on the previous order of the minister of finance.

Sheet iron, galvanized, for roofs, gutters, walls, Tin plates, not perforated.

and spouts.

Wire, barbed, and hooks, for fencing.

CLASS 14.-3 sucres per kilogram (2.2046 pounds).

Dresses, ready-made, of silk; fans of all kinds, except of straw or paper; jewelry cases, empty.

CLASS 15.-30 per cent ad valorem.

Objects of gold and silver and precious stones of all kinds and the cases in which they are contained. The Ecuadorian consul at the port of shipment shall legalize the general manifests and invoices submitted to him by shippers. These documents shall be drawn up in Spanish and presented in quadruple copies, one of which shall be remitted to the shipper, another shall be addressed to the customs administrator at the place to which the cargo is destined, the third shall be transmitted to the minister of finance, and the last shall be preserved in the archives of the consulate.

The consular invoice shall be formed after model No. 9, expressing the kind of package, such as bags, or boxes, or barrels, and the special contents thereof, not using general terms, as wool, cotton, hardware, but designating them specially. Where there is no Ecuadorian consul, that of a friendly nation will certify; failing consular agents, the local authorities will certify.

Consuls will not certify memorandums nor invoices directed to ports not open for imports, nor after the ships have left the ports to which the documents refer, under penalty of removal; and it is their duty to make exact textual of the same certification of all the copies of each memorandum or invoice without demanding more for this than the fees, which here with follows.

It is prohibited to include in the same invoice two or more shipments, but each of these must carry its own invoice.

CONSULAR FEES.

The consuls will charge for the certification of invoices according to value in the following manner: One sucre for invoices whose value reaches to and includes 300 sucres; 4 sucres from 300 to 800 sucres, inclusive; 8 sucres from 800 to 1,500 sucres, inclusive; and 2 sucres in addition to the 8 sucres collected for the first 1,500 sucres for every additional 100 sucres of the invoices.

For the manifests consuls will collect 1 centavo of a sucre for every ton burden.

ADDITIONAL SPECIAL DUTIES.

The customs shall, on the import duties leviable, collect the following surtaxes, the proceeds of which shall be applied to the undermentioned expenses: (1) Twenty per cent for the railroad.

(2) Ten per cent for the foreign debt.

(3) Two per cent for drainage of Guayaquil.

(4) Four per cent for the consolidation of the municipal debt of Guayaquil. (5) Twenty per cent for providing the payment of the bonds emitted according to the decree for a loan of 1,500,000 sucres.

(6) Six per cent for wharf dues.

(7) Four per cent for the construction of the Guayaquil custom-house.

SAN VICENTE COLLEGE DUTIES.

Wood, which may be introduced from abroad in logs or beams, for building, and beams or boards even when planed, will pay one-half of 1 centavo per kilogram. There will be collected on foreign sugar for each quintal 5 centavos and 2 per cent on the importation of liquors, excluding wine.

These duties will be directly delivered by the collector of customs to the treasurer of the College of San Vicente, Guayaquil, and the treasurer of the directory of the benificence of said city every fifteen days.

EXTRA DUTIES, MISCELLANEOUS.

For the construction of railroads and for funds for appropriating lands which the city may order, there will collected, according to the decree of October 3, 1894, and December 5, 1896, the following duties:

For the construction of railroads, 10 centavos for every 100 kilograms (220,46 pounds) gross weight, upon the packages and articles of importation and exportation, the exports of ivory nuts, pitch, hides, split and whole canes, fowls, vegetables, coal, barks, fruits, woods, plants, sisal hemp, tamarinds, and minerals excepted.

For the expropriation expenses of the city (Guayaquil) during two years, 30 centavos of surcharges for each kilogram of gross weight on the duties on importation of matches, and one-half cent of surcharge on all exports for each kilogram except ivory nuts.

EXPORT DUTIES.

The duties on exports will be collected according to the following tariff for each 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds) of gross weight:

The custom-houses of the provinces of Guayas and Manabi (except Callo and Esmeraldas) will collect the following additional export duties: Raw cotton, for each 46 kilograms, 10 centavos.