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Pine, White, and in proportion for any smaller quantity there

of, per one thousand cubic feet

Pine, Red, per one thousand cubic feet.

Oak, per one thousand cubic feet....

Birch, per one thousand cubic feet...

Ash, Elm, Tamarac or Hacmatac, and other woods not herein
charged with duty, per one thousand cubic feet....

Staves, standard or measurement, per standard mille....
Puncheon or West India:

White Oak, per standard mille....

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Red Oak, per standard mille...
Ash, per standard mille....

Barrel, per standard mille....

Deals, Pine, per Quebec standard hundred ...

Spruce, per Quebec standard hundred...

Handspikes, per dozen.....

Oars, per pair...

Planks, Boards, and all kinds of sawed Lumber, not herein
charged with duty, per one thousand superficial feet,

inch thick,.

And so in proportion for any greater thickness.

SPIRITS or Strong Waters of all sorts, viz:

For

every gallon of such Spirits or Strong Waters, except Rum,
of any strength not exceeding the strength of Proof by
Sykes' Hydrometer, and so in proportion for any greater
strength than the strength of Proof, and for any greater
or less quantity than a gallon, the gallon.....

do

RUM,
do
do the gallon.....
And further for any excess over Hydrometer Proof, an equal
additional duty per gallon to the duty imposed upon the
said Spirits and Rum by any Act or Acts of the Iinperial
Parliament and payable in this Province, until the same

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SPIRITS OR RUM:

shall be provided for by any Act of the Imperial Par-
liament of Great Britain and Ireland.
For every gallon of such Spirits or Strong Waters or Rum,
sweetened or mixed with any article so that the degree
of strength thereof cannot be ascertained, the gallon...

WINE, of all kinds, the gallon...

And ten per centum ad valorem.

Anchovies and Sardines, preserved in Oil,...

Biscuits and Crackers,

Clocks and Watches,.

Carriages and Vehicles of all kinds, unenumerated,.

Extracts, Essences and Perfumery,.

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£ s. d. Duty Sterling.

0 20

0 0 8

Eggs,.

Fruit, unenumerated,.

Fanning and Bark Mills,.

For every

one hundred

10 0 0

Machinery, unenumerated,.

Oils, unenumerated, Vegetable, Volatile, Chemical pounds of the

and Essential,..

Pickles and Sauces,.

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Goods, Wares and Merchandize not otherwise charged)

For every one)

with duty, and not herein declared to be free of hundred pounds 5 0 0 duty,....

500

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Copies of the Holy Scriptures printed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Coin and Bullion.

Donations of Books or Clothing specially imported for the use of, or to be distributed gratuitously by, any Charitable Society in the Province.

Fish, fresh, not described.

Horses and Carriages of Travellers, and horses, cattle and carriages and other vehicles when employed in carrying merchandize, together with the necessary harness and tackle, so long as the same are bona fide in use for that purpose.

Hides and Tallow and Offal of cattle and swine slaughtered in bond.

Manures of all kinds.

Models of Machinery and of other inventions and improvements in the Arts.
Old Junk or Oakum.

Packages containing dutiable articles.

Philosophical

Exemptions.

Philosophical Apparatus, instruments, books, maps, statuary, busts and casts of marble, bronze, alabaster or plaster of Paris, paintings, drawings, engravings, etchings, specimens of sculptures, cabinets of coins, medals, gems, and all other collections of antiquities,-provided the same be specially imported in good faith for the use of any Society incorporated or established for philosophical or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by the order of any University, College, Academy, School or Seminary of learning within this Province.

Arms or clothing, which any contractor or contractors, commissary or commissaries, shall import or bring into the Province for the use of Her Majesty's Army or Navy or for the use of the Indian nations in this Province, provided the duty otherwise payable would be defrayed or borne by the Treasury of the United Kingdom or of this Province.

Specimens in Natural History, Mineralogy and Botany.

Seeds of all kinds, farming utensils and implements of husbandry, animals for the improvement of stock,-when specially imported in good faith by any Society incorporated or established for the encouragement of agriculture,

Trees, shrubs, plants, bulbs or roots.

Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal effects not merchandize, implements and tools of trade of handicraftsmen in the occupation or employment of persons coming into the Province for the purpose of actually settling therein.

ALSO,

Cordage, pitch, tar, turpentine, leather, leatherware, fishermen's clothing and hosiery, fishing craft, utensils and instruments imported into the District of Gaspé from the United Kingdom or the Channel Islands for the use of the fisheries carried on therein, subject to such regulations as the principal Officer of Customs at the Port of Quebec shall make, and which he is hereby empowered to establish, for the purpose of ascertaining that such articles are bona fide intended to be applied for the use of such fisheries.

MONTREAL:-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE and GEORGE DESBARATS,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

MON ORDIT

ANNO OCTAVO

VICTORIA REGINÆ.

CAP. IV.

An Act to provide for the Management of the Customs and of matters relative to the Collection of the Provincial Revenue.

[17th March, 1845.]

W

HEREAS it is expedient to repeal the Acts, Ordinances and Provisions Preamble. of law hereinafter mentioned, relative to the management of the Customs

and of matters relative to the Collection of the Provincial Revenue, to the end

Act.

tain Acts or parts of Acts. L. C.

that the provisions of law relative to the matters aforesaid may be amended, consolidated and made uniform throughout this Province: Be it therefore enacted by Commencethe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the ment of this Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada; and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Act of the Legislature of the Province of Lower Canada, passed in the Repeal of cerfourth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to authorize the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government of the Province, to restore Goods and Vessels seized to the proprietor or poprietors, on the terms and conditions therein mentioned; and the Act of the said Legislature, passed in the seventh year of the Reign last aforesaid, and intituled, An Act to establish the manner of issuing Licenses on which duties are imposed by any laws in force in this Province; and the Act of the said Legislature, or f passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to regulate and establish the Salaries of the Officers of the Customs at the inland Ports in this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and so much of the Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, passed in the forty-fifth land Ports. year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act for altering III, cap. 1. 3*

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Geo. IV, cap. tures, &c.

14. Forfei

L. C. 7 Geo. IV, cap.

Licenses.

L. C. 6 Will. IV,

cap. 24. In

U. C.

Part of 45 Geo.

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