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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     hereby repealed, shall be, and the same is hereby 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 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, April 28, 1865‘. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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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 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     6 
     
    
   
   
    
     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,