EDWARD WHELAN, QUEEN’S PRINTER. 2'4 JA"—' . 7 _.’ a .1‘ , " ‘ . 74A - v\ .r\ u _..,. .A .‘ ~ “ ‘ ‘ ' . . \ y t . - 7.! - r ‘ .l ._ \ .. \x" v .I ‘ r i ,; ,. 5gp .‘ u 1__¥~ , ' »..- , V‘ x \ r .«.' FR -’ 3‘ I . g . 3 A _ a V, . . ‘v:' _ . ' z r _ ., __ r f P, u‘ .; ‘ _ - . x \' “ a p. a v - v - , . . y. I ; 31‘; \ ~ ‘ 5 I x ‘ I s I \ ‘ - - o \ VOL. 1. -— N0. 9. x Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, ‘Vedncsday, May 8, 1867. BY AUTHORITY. An Act for Raising 3. Revenue. [Passed 25th April, 1867. HEREAS it is deemed expedient to further continue and amend the herein- after recited Act: Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows 2—— I. The Act made and passed in the nineteenth ear of the reign of Her present Majesty, inti- tuled “ An Act for raising 3. 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consolidate and amend the several Acts therein mentioned,” save and except such clauses and parts thereof as are hereby repealed, shall be, and the same is hereby continued, with certain amendments hereinafter mentioned, from.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-eight. II. From and after the passing of this Act, and until the said first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, there shall be rais- ed, levied and paid, on the several articles here- inafter 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 of duties hereinafter contained, deno- minated“ 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 like proportion for any less amount than one hundred pounds worth ;- and the second column denoting the specific duty on each arti- cle; and the said duties shall be calculated 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 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, be 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 proport1on for any smaller part or fraction of a. dollar.