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CAP. V.

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An Act to amend the Acts imposing Duties of Customs. [Assented to 18th December, 1854.]

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HEREAS it is expedient to repeal the several duties of Customs hereinafter mentioned, and to impose others in their stead, and otherwise to amend the Acts relating to Duties of Customs: 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 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, as follows:

ad valorem

I. All the duties of Customs, specific and ad valorem, imposed Certain speby the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, cific and and intituled, An Act to amend the Law relative to Duties of duties imposed Customs, and the Schedule A or Table of Duties of Customs by 12 V. c. 1, inwards, annexed to the said Act, or by the Act passed in the six- and 16 V. c. teenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act further 85, repealed. to amend the Laws relating to Duties of Customs, on the following articles, viz: Sugar of all kinds,-Molasses,-Tea, Coffee,— Tobacco of all kinds manufactured or unmanufactured, including Cigars and Snuff,-Wine of all kinds in wood or in bottle, -Whiskey,-Rum,-Geneva,-Brandy and other spirits or strong waters except Rum and Whiskey-Spirits, Cordials and Liqueurs sweetened and mixed with any article so that the strength cannot be ascertained by Sykes' Hydrometer, shall be and are hereby repealed.

II. The duty of thirty per cent ad valorem, imposed by the Certain 30 per said Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, on cent duties Spices and Fruits,-Nuts,-Vinegar,-Macaroni and Vermi- repealed. celli--Sweetmeats or Fruit preserved in Sugar, Candy or Molasses, shall be and is hereby repealed.

repealed.

III. The duty of twenty per cent ad valorem, imposed by the Certain 20 per Act last cited, on Animals of all kinds,-Meats of all kinds cent duties (except Mess Pork)-Butter, — Cheese, — Flour, — Barley,— Buckwheat,-Bear and Bigg,-Oats,-Rye,-Beans and Peas, -Meal of the above grain and wheat not bolted,-Bran in shorts, and Hops,-shall be and is hereby repealed, and the said articles shall be admitted free of duty, except only in the Articles to be

case mentioned in the fifth Section of this Act.

free of duty.

IV. The duty of two and a half per cent ad valorem imposed Certain 2 by the said Act last cited, or by the said Act passed in the per cent duties repealed. sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, on the following articles, viz: Anchors,-Chain Cables,-Veneers,-Hay,-Pig Iron,— Green Fruits,-Bark, Berries, Nuts, Vegetables, Woods and Drugs used solely in dyeing, and Indigo,—Bristles,-BurrStones unwrought,--Coal and Coke,-Grease and Scraps,Hemp, Flax and Tow undressed,-Hides,-Junk and Oakum,Lard,—Lead, Pig or Sheet,-Marble in blocks, unpolished,Oil, Cocoanut, Pine and Palm only,-Ores of all kinds of metals,-Pipe Clay,-Resin and Rosin,-Saw Logs,-Ships' Water Casks in use,-Teazles,-Broom Corn,-Wood used in making Carpenters' or Joiners' Tools,-Tallow,-Tar and Pitch,-Type Metal in blocks or pigs,—Wool,-Caoutchouc,— Cordage of all kinds,-Sail Cloth,-Copper in bars, rods or in sheets,-Yellow Metal in bars or in sheets,-Bright and Black Varnish,-Marine Cement,-Treenails,-Bunting,-Felt Sheeting,---Printing Presses,--Printing Types,---Printer's Ink,---Printing Implements of all kinds, Book-Binders' Tools and Presses and Implements of all kinds,-Old Nets and Ropes,-Cotton and Flax Waste,-Rags,-Fire Clay and Russia Hemp Yarn,

shall

Articles to be shall be and are hereby repealed, and the said articles be admitted free admitted free of duty, except in the case mentioned in the next of duty. following Section.

Provision in V. If the Governor of this Province shall at any time, under case of susthe provisions of the Act passed during the present Session, pension of Treaty with intituled, An Act for giving effect on the part of this Province, United States. to a certain Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America, declare the suspension of the Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America, signed on the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, then while such suspension shall continue, the several articles mentioned in the Schedule to the Act last aforesaid, being the growth and produce of the said United States, shall be subject to the duties to which they are now subject, and no such article shall then be admitted free of duty unless it was so admitted immediately before the passing of the said Act.

New duties imposed on articles men

tioned in the

Schedule.

Commencement of foregoing enact

ments.

Sugar may be refined in bond.

Interpretation clause.

10 & 11 V. c. 31.

VI. In lieu and in stead of the duties of Customs hereby repealed, there shall be raised, levied, collected and paid unto Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon the Goods, Wares and Merchandize mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, when imported into this Province or taken out of Warehouse for consumption therein, the several duties of Customs respectively inscribed, inserted and set forth in the said Schedule to this Act.

VII. The foregoing enactments shall take effect upon, from and after the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and not before.

VIII. It shall be lawful for the importer or owner of any Sugar, Molasses or other material from which Refined Sugar can be produced, to refine the same in bond, provided such refining be done and conducted under such regulations and restrictions as the Governor in Council shall from time to time make and impose for that purpose, and the same regulations may extend to the substitution of Refined Sugar in quantities equivalent to the produce of the Sugar or other material so refined in bond.

IX. This Act shall be construed as one Act with the Act passed in the Session held in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for repealing and consolidating the present duties of Customs in this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and with the Acts herein before cited, and all words and expressions used in this Act shall have the meaning assigned to them in the said Acts, and all the provisions of the said Acts with regard to the duties imposed by them, or the regulations to be made under them, shall apply to the duties imposed by this Act and the regulations to be made under it, except in so far as may be inconsistent

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