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     JOHN [Ntlfi QUEEN’S Pl’th'l‘El’t. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     May 2, 1866. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VOL. VlII.—-—N0. 366 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LAWS OF RRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
     C A P. I. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act for raising a Revenue. 
     
     [l’assed April '20, 1860.] 
     
     \VTHE RICAS it is deemed expedient to fur- 
     
     ther 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 Her present Majesty, intitu- 
     
     led “ An Act for raising :1 Revenue, and to con- 
     
     solidate and amend the several Acts therein 
     
     mentitmed,” save and except such clauses and 
     
     parts thereof as are hereby repealed, shall be, 
     
     and the same is hereby continued, with certain 
     
     al‘nendments hereafter mentioned, until the first 
     
     day of May. which will be in the year of our 
     
     Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. From and after the passing of this Act, 
     
     and until the said lirst day of May, one thousand 
     
     eight hundred and sixty-seven, there shall be rais- 
     
     ed, levied and paid, on the several articles herein- 
     
     after mentioned, imported or brought into this 
     
     Island from any place or country whatsoever, 
     
     the several impost duties, rates, or' impositions 
     
     inserted, described and set forth in figures in 
     
     the table ofduties hereinafter contained, denomi- 
     
     nated “Table of Impost Duties,” opposite to 
     
     and against the said respective articles, as there- 
     
     in 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 valorem 
     
     duty, or amount payable on every one hundred 
     
     pounds worth of the article imported, which shall 
     
     be in r 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 calculated on the 
     
     actual value or amount of the invoice when re- 
     
     duced into lawful current money ofthis Island, 
     
     which said several duties, rates and impositions, 
     
     shall be in lieu of all duties, rates and imposi- 
     
     tions 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, 
     
     fo ' all the purposes of this Act, be reduced into 
     
     the current money of this Island, by allowing for 
     
     each dollar the sum of six shillings of the said 
     
     current. n’ioney, or such other sum as the Lieu- 
     
     tenant (Rovernor of this Island, in Council, shall, 
     
     from time to time, fix anzl determine the rate so 
     
     lixed by the Government, to be published in the 
     
     Royal Gazette, weekly, and in like proportion 
     
     for any smaller part or fraction ofa dollar. 
     
    
   
   
    
     'l‘-\BLE OF IMPOST Dif'l‘lliS REFERRED TO IN THE 
     
     l’lthL‘EIJthi CLAUSE OF THIS ACT. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1.?! Column. i 21er Column. 
     
     . Per Centagcl 
     
      all vii/wrrm Other Duties. 
     
     duty oncvcryi' 
     
     15100 curren-l 
     
     Cy value per 
     
     Invoice. 
     
     . J; S d i .L: S Ll 
     
     Anchors and Chain Cables 1 0 0' 
     
     Canvas and Sail Cloth, 53 0 0‘ 
     
     Iron Bars and Straps intended for strap- i 
     
     ing Riders and Knees of Ships, ‘3 0  
     
     Steam Engines and Boilers, 2 0 ()5? 
     
     Rigging and Cordage, 2 0 0i 
     
     Sails and Oakum, 2 0 (l‘ 
     
     Pitch, Tar and Resin, 2 O 0 
     
     Copper and Composition Bars, Bolts. 
     
     Rudder Braces, Clinch Rings,Sheets 
     
     and Sheathing Nails, 2 0 0 
     
     Blocks and Deadeyes, 5 O 0 
     
     Bar Iron, Bar and Spring Steel, Gyp- 
     
     sum. ground and unground, Leather 
     
     ofall kinds except Sole Leather.  g 8 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rice, Fruit and Vegetables undried,