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An Act for raising a Revenue. [l‘assed 2-ltli April, 1668.] \l‘f llERl‘IAS it is deemed expedient to further continue and amend the hereinafter recited Act, be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant (Sovernor, (‘euncil 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consolidate and amend the several Acts therein mentioned,” save and except such clauses and parts thereof as are hereby repealed, shall be and the same is hereby continued with certain amend— ments hereinafter mentioned, from the passing hereof and until the first day of May, which will be in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

II. From and after the passing of this Act and until the said first day of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty~nine, 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 impo- sitions, inserted, described and set forth in figures in the Table of duties hereinafter contained, denominated “ Table of Impost Duties,” opposite to and against the said respective articles as therein mentioned, described and enumerated, and according to the value, number and quantity thereof, as therein specified, the first column of duties in the said table denoting the ad ealorcm duty.or amount payable on every One hundred pounds worth of the article imported, whichashall 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 'alculated on the

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actual value or amount of the invoice, when reduced into the lawful current money of this Island, which said several duties, rates and im- positions 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 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 Goveruer 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 pI‘OpOP tion for any smaller part or fraction of a dollar.

TABLE OF IMI’OST DUTIES REFERRED TO IN THE l’I’tECEIHNG CLAUSE OF THIS ACT.

st Column. 2d Column.

1 i For cent’gel Uther ad ealorcml Duties. ARTICLES. duty on . every £109 currency ' value per . Invoice. . if. S. d. .C b. (l. Anchors and Chain Cables. 1 O 0 Almonds. Jordan and Shelled. per lb. 0 0 fl Ale. Porter and Beer per gallon, 0 0 5 Blocks and Dead Eyes, 5 0 O - Bar Iron, Bar and Spring Steel, 5 U 0 Buffalo Robes. 10 (l 0 Boots and Shoes of all kinds. 12 10 U Bread. fine. and Crackers of all kinds. except Ship and Navy Bread, 10 0 O Butter the cut. 0 10 0 Bread, Ship and Pilot, per 100 lbs. () 1 u Baeon theth. 0 10 (l Becfthe barrel. ' 0 Ci 0 Brooms (Corn.) i 12 10 0 Books, being the reprints of British' authors, under the lmpcrial Act llth Vie, Cap. 28. 20 O 0 Burning Fluid. Kerosene,l’arafine, Roch combination and all other descriptions of OHS manufactured from Coal, per gallon, 0 0 7.} Canvas and Sail Cloth. 2 0 O