OF CANADA, ENACTED by Her Most Excellent Majesty, our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, &c., by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the said Province, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Third and Fourth years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled " An Act to Re-unite the "Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada. " PRINTED BY STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS, Anno Domini, 1843. PROVINCIAL STATUTES OF CANADA. ANNO REGNI SEPTIM O VICTORIE, DEI GRATIA, BRITANNIARUM REGINÆ. HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE, G. C. B. GOVERNOR GENERAL. Being the THIRD Session of the FIRST Provincial Parliament of CANADA. An Act to impose duties on Agricultural Produce and Live Stock imported into this Province. WH [16th November, 1843.] HEREAS, the present system of raising a Revenue by means of duties of Customs, has been complained of as unequal by the Agricultural Population of the Province, inasmuch as under it Agricultural Produce and Live Stock are in most cases entirely exempted from duty; and whereas, as well with a view to remove such inequality, as for the purpose of increasing the Public Revenue, it is expedient to impose duties on Agricultural Produce and Live Stock imported into this Province ;-Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 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 reunite 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 there shall be raised, levied, collected and paid to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon Agricultural Produce and Live Stock, of the kinds and descriptions mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, imported into this Province, the several duties of Customs respectively inserted, described and set forth in words and figures in the Schedule aforesaid. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, that Agricultural Produce and Live Stock, imported by Sea for the use of the Fisheries of this Province, shall be free Preamble. Certain duties imposed on Agricultural Live Stock. Produce and Exemption in favor of the Fisheries. |