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LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

CAP. III.

An Act for raising a Revenue.

[Passed April 3, 1865.]

1", HEREAS it is deemed expedient to further ‘ continue and amend the hereinafter recited Act: Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly as follows:

I. The Act made and passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of “or present Majesiy, 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consolidate and amend the several Acts therein mentioned,” save and except such clauses and parts thereof as are hereby repealed, shall be, and the same is hereby continued, with certain amendments hereafter- tnentioned, until the first day of May, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and sixty six.

II. From and after the passing of this Act, and until the said first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty six, there shall be raised, levied and paid, on the several articles hereinafter mentioned, imported or brought into this Island from any place or country whatsoever, the several impost duties, rates, or impositions inserted, descri— bed and set forth in figures in the table of duties hereinafter contained, denominated “ Table of Im- post Duties,” opposite to and against the said res- pective articles, as therein mentioned, described and enumerated, and according to the value, num- ber and quantity 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

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article, and the said duties shall be calculated on the actual value or amount of the invoice when re- duced into the lawful current money ofthis Island, which said several duties, rates, and impositions, shall be in lieu of all duties, rates, and itnpositions 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 purposes of this Act, he reduced into the current money of this Island, by allowing for each dollar the sum of six shillings of the said current money, or such other sum as the Lieutenant Governor of this Island, in Council, shall, from time to time, fix and determine the rate so fixed by the Govern- ment, to be published in the Royal Gazette, weekly, and in like proportion for any smaller part or fraction of a dollar.

OF IMPOST DUTIES REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDIXG CLAUSE OF THIS ACT.

TABLE

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Is! Column. 2d Column.

Per centage ad valorem jduty 0“ every Other Duties. :JfilUO curren- cy value per invoice.

ARTICLES.

£ 5 d. Anchors and Chain Cables - 1 O 0 Blocks and Deadeyes, - 5 O 0 Boots and Shoes of all kinds, 12 10 0 Buffalo Robes, — - lO 0 0

Burning Fluid, Kerosene, Parafine, Rock, combination, and all other de- scriptions of Oils manufactured from, Coal, per gallon, ; O 0

Books, being the reprints ofBritish au-‘ thors, under the Imperial Act llth i Vic. Cap. ‘28. 1:20 0 0

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Canvas, Sail Cloth and Cordage,

Clothes, ready-made, namely, Coats,