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LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

An Act for raising a Revenue. [Passed 19th April, 1869.] 'HEREAS it is deemed expedient to fur- ther continue and amend the hereinafter recited Act. Be it therefore enacted by the Administrator of the Government, Council and Assembly, as follows :

I. The Act made and passed in the nine- teenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act for raising a Revenue and to consolidate and amend the several Acts therein mentioned," save and except such clauses and parts thereof as are hereby repealed, shall be and the same is hereby continued, with certain amendments hereinafter mentioned, f ‘0111 the passing hereof and until the First day of May which will be in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.

II. From and after the passing of this Act and until the said First day of May, One thou- sand eight hundred and seventy, there shall be raised, levied and paid on the several articles hereinafter mentioned, imported or brought into this Island, from any place or country whatso- ever, the several impost duties, rates or imposi- tions inserted, described and set forth in figures in the Table of Duties hereinafter contained, denominated “ Table of lmpost Duties,” Oppo. site to, and against, the said respective articles, as therein mentioned, described and enumerated, and according to the value, number and quan- tity thereof as therein specified. The first column of duties in the said table denoting the ad valorem duty or amount payable on every one hundred pounds worth of the article imported, which shall be in like proportion for any less amount than one hundred pounds worth, and the second column denoting the specific duty on each article ; and the said duties shall be cal- culated on the actual value or amount of the invoice when reduced into the lawful current money of this Island, which said several duties, rates and impositions shall be in lieu of all duties, rates and impositions imposed by the hereinbefore recited Act, and the amount of any invoice of dutiable goods imported from the United States of America into this Island, made out in Dollars and Cents, shall, for all the pur- poses of this Act, he reduced into the current money of this Island, by allowing for each

GAZETTE. 0” dollar the sum of six shillings of the said current money, or such other sum as the Ltutenant Governor, or other Administrator of the Govern- ment, of this Island in Council shall, from time to time, fix and determine, the rate so fixed by the Government to be published in the Royal Gazette weekly, and in like proportion for any smaller part or fractmn of a dollar. TABLE OF IMPOST DUTIES REFERRED TO IN THE PRECISDING CLAUSE OF THIS ACT. lst Column.§2d Column. Per cent’ge Other ad valorem Duties. ARTICLES. . duty on chl'y £100 currency value per Invoice. £ 8. (1. £ d. d. Anchors and Chain Cables 1 O O Almonds, Jordan and Shelled, perlb. 0 0 8 Ale, Porter and Beer per gallon 0 0 5 lilm‘ks add Dead Eyes 5 0 0 liul‘ lron. Bar and Spring Steel 5 U () liulfalu Robes ll 0 0 Boots and Shoes of all kinds I2 10 0 Bread. fine. and Crackers “fall kinds. except Ship and Navy Bread 1] 0 0 Butter thccwt. O 10 0 Bread. Ship and Pilot, per 100 lbs. 0 1 0 Bacon the cwt. 0 10 0 lieet‘the barrel 0 6 0 Brooms (com) 12 IO 0 Books. being the reprints of British authors, umh-r the Imperial Act 11th Vietoria. cap 28. 20 0 0 Burning Fluid, Kerosene. Parafine. Rook Combination and all other deSeripnons ol Oils manufactured from coal, per gallon 0 0 7,} Canvas and Sail Cloth 2 0 0 Copper. Brass and Composition Bars, Bolts. Rudder braces, Clinch rings, Sheets and Sheathing Nails 2 0 0 Clothes ready made. namely. Coats. Orercouts, Vests. Jackets and Trousers 12 IO 0 Carriages of all kinds 12 10 0 Cigars 20 0 0 Clocks 25 0 0 I Coli'ee, roasted or ground. per lb. 0 0 3 Colfee, green. per lb. 0 0 2 Chocolate. Cocoa paste or Broma per lb. 0 0 3 Cider per gallon 0 (l 5 Confectionery of all kinds per lb. 0 0 4 Currants. Raisins, Prunes. Figs and all other kinds of dried fruit, per 0 0 l I ) ' Cheese the cwt. 0 5 O Cordage. (see Rigging) Flour. Wheat and Rye and Corn- meal per barrel 0 l 6 Fruit. and Vegetables. undried 5 0 0 Gypsum. ground and unground 5 0 0 Hams. the ewt. 0 10 0 Iron Bars and Straps. intended {or strapping riders and knees of ships 2 0 0 Jewellery of all kinds 11 0 0 [Leather 0! all kinds, except 8012 Leather 5 0 0