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Frames for Pictures and Looking Glasses;
Wooden Wares of all kinds; Matches; Corn
Brooms; and all Agricultural Implements,
and parts thereof, (except Spades, Shovels,
Scythes, and Reaping Hooks); Trunks;
Valises; Portmanteaus;

Iron Castings, viz :-Cooking, Close, Box, and 》 £15 0 0 Round Stoves, and parts thereof, except square Stoves, designated as Canada Stoves; Apparatus for Cooking Stoves; Franklin Stoves, Register Grates, Fire-frames, and parts thereof; Kitchen Ranges, Boilers, Cast Iron Furnaces, and parts thereof;

And on all other Goods, Wares, and Merchandise not herein otherwise charged with duty, and not hereafter declared to be free from duty, for every one hundred pounds of the true and real value thereof,

TABLE OF EXEMPTIONS.

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Baggage, Apparel, Household effects, Working Tools, and Implements used and in use of families arriving in this Province, if used abroad by them, and not intended for any other person or persons, or for sale: Books, Printed Carriages of Travellers, not intended for sale: Coins and Bullion: Corn Broom Brush: Grain, Flour, Meal, and Bread Stuffs of all kinds Rice, ground and unground: Eggs and Poultry: Manures of all kinds: Fish of all kinds: Products of Fish and all other creatures living in the water: Palm Oil: Plants, Shrubs, and Trees: Firewood: Printing Paper, Types, Printing Presses, and Printers' Ink: Rags: old Rope and Junk: Salt of all kinds : Sails and Rigging saved from Vessels wrecked: Soap Grease and Tallow: Butter: Cheese: Lard: Timber and Lumber of all kinds, round, hewed, and sawed, unmanufactured in whole or in part Lines and Twines: Shoe Thread and Boot Webbing: Animals of all kinds: fresh, smoked, salted, and cured Meats: Cotton Wool: Cotton Batting: Seeds and Vegetables: undried Fruits dried Fruits, the produce of the United States of America: Furs, Skins, or Tails, undressed: Stone or Marble in its crude or unwrought state: Slate: Ores of Metals of all kinds : Coal: Pitch: Tar: Turpentine Ashes: Pelts: Wool: Bark: Gypsum, ground or unground: hewn, wrought or unwrought Burr or Grindstones: Dye Stuffs: Molasses: Flax, Hemp, Manilla, and Tow, unmanufactured: unmanufactured Tobacco Rosin: Horns: Hides, the produce of the United States of America: Barilla and Chalk.

CAP. III.

An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the payment of the Ordinary Services of the Province.

Section.

1. Grants for Ordinary Services.

Section.

2. Money how to be drawn.

Passed 10th March 1855.

BE it enacted by the Lieuteuant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, as follows :

1. There be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of the Province for the services hereinafter mentioned, viz:

To the Chaplain of the Legislative Council in General Assembly, twenty pounds.

To the Chaplain of the House of Assembly, twenty pounds. To the Sergeant at Arms attending the Legislative Council in General Assembly, fifteen shillings per diem during the present Session.

To the Sergeant at Arms attending the House of Assembly, fifteen shillings per diem during the present Session.

To the Clerk of the Legislative Council in General Assembly, two hundred pounds in full for his services during the present Session.

To the Clerk of the House of Assembly, two hundred pounds for his services during the present Session.

To the Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Council in General Assembly, one hundred pounds in full for his services during the present Session.

To the Clerk Assistant of the House of Assembly, one hundred pounds for his services during the present Session.

To the Doorkeepers attending the Legislative Council and Assembly, ten shillings each per diem during the present Session.

To the Messengers attending the Legislative Council and Assembly, seven shillings and six pence each per diem during the present Session.

To His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, ten thousand pounds towards the encouragement of Parish Schools, agreeably to a Law of this Province.

To His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds to be applied in rewarding

persons for apprehending Deserters from Her Majesty's Land Forces within this Province, provided that no greater sum than five pounds be paid for the apprehension of any one Deserter. To the Librarian of the Legislative Library, one hundred pounds for his services to the end of the present Session.

To the Keeper of the Light House on Point Le Preau, eighty five pounds.

To the Keeper of the Light House on Partridge Island, eighty five pounds.

To the Keeper of the Light House on Campo Bello, one hundred pounds.

To the Keeper of the Beacon Light, eighty five pounds. To the Commissioners of Light Houses in the Bay of Fundy, the following sums to pay for the services for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five:

To the Keeper of the Light House on Gannet Rock and his Assistants, two hundred and ten pounds:

To the Keeper of the Light House on Thrum Cap, Quaco, one hundred and ten pounds, and an additional sum of thirty six pounds to enable him to pay an Assistant:

To the Keeper of the Light House on Machias Seal Island, one hundred and thirty pounds, and an additional sum of thirty six pounds to enable him to pay an Assistant:

To the Keeper of the Light House in the Harbour of Saint Andrews, forty pounds:

To the Keeper of the Light House on Cape Enrage, eighty five pounds.

To the Commissioners of Light Houses in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, one hundred pounds to provide for the salary of a Keeper for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five at the Light House on Point Escuminac.

2. All the before mentioned sums of money shall be paid by the Treasurer of the Province, by Warrant of the Governor in Council, out of the moneys in the Treasury, or as payment may be made at the same.

CAP. IV.

An Act to continue Chapter Thirty four, Title Three, of the Revised Statutes, "Of the payment of Interest on Treasury Warrants."

Cap. 34, Revised Statutes, continued.

Passed 10th March 1855.

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, That Chapter 34, Title III, " Of the payment of Interest on Treasury Warrants," be and the same is hereby continued in force until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five.

CAP. V.

An Act to continue Chapter Fifteen, Title Three, of the Revised Statutes, "Of the Export Duty on Lumber."

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1. Cap. 15, Revised Statutes, continued. 2. What Act not to interfere with.

Passed 31st March 1855.

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly:

1. Chapter 15, Title III, of the Revised Statutes, "Of the Export Duty on Lumber," is hereby continued in force · until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five.

2. This Act shall not interfere with the operation of an Act passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for giving effect on the part of the Province of New Brunswick to a certain Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America.

CAP. VI.

An Act to continue for a further period the Act intituled An Act to provide for the prompt payment of all demands upon the Provincial Treasury.

Act 2 V. c. 44, continued, and authority given to continue a certain agreement.

Passed 31st March 1855.

WHEREAS in and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the second year of the Reign of Her present

Majesty, intituled An Act to provide for the prompt payment of all demands upon the Provincial Treasury, a certain agreement was made and entered into by and between the Treasurer of the Province and the Bank of New Brunswick for the purposes of the said Act, which has been continued to the present time: And whereas the aforesaid Act will expire on the first day of April which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, and it is considered advisable to continue the provision thereof, under certain conditions;

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, That an Act made and passed in the second year of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to provide for the prompt payment of all demands upon the Provincial Treasury, be and the same is hereby continued for the further term of five years from the first day of April which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, and that the Treasurer of the Province, with the assent of the Governor in Council, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to continue the agreement at present existing with the said Bank of New Brunswick, during the continuation of this Act; provided always, that no greater rate of interest than five per centum be hereafter paid on the said agreement.

CAP. VII.

An Act for the better supervision and improvement of the Great Roads and Public Works.

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BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. The Governor in Council may establish a Board, whic h shall have the general supervision and control of all the Great Roads and Bridges, and all Public Works, except Bye Roads,

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