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     LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act for raising a Revenue. 
     
     [Passed 19th April, 1869.] 
     
     'HEREAS it is deemed expedient to fur- 
     
     ther continue and amend the hereinafter 
     
     recited Act. Be it therefore enacted by the 
     
     Administrator of the Government, Council 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     clauses and parts thereof as are hereby repealed, 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 amendments hereinafter mentioned, f ‘0111 
     
     the passing hereof and until the First day of 
     
     May which will be in the year of our Lord One 
     
     thousand eight hundred and seventy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. From and after the passing of this Act 
     
     and until the said First day of May, One thou- 
     
     sand eight hundred and seventy, 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 imposi- 
     
     tions inserted, described and set forth in figures 
     
     in the Table of Duties hereinafter contained, 
     
     denominated “ Table of lmpost Duties,” Oppo. 
     
     site to, and against, the said respective articles, 
     
     as therein mentioned, described and enumerated, 
     
     and according to the value, number and quan- 
     
     tity 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 article ; and the said duties shall be cal- 
     
     culated 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 impositions 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 pur- 
     
     poses of this Act, he reduced into the current 
     
     money of this Island, by allowing for each 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     GAZETTE. 0” 
     
     dollar the sum of six shillings of the said current 
     
     money, or such other sum as the Ltutenant 
     
     Governor, or other Administrator of the Govern- 
     
     ment, 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 proportion for any 
     
     smaller part or fractmn of a dollar. 
     
     TABLE OF IMPOST DUTIES REFERRED TO IN THE 
     
     PRECISDING CLAUSE OF THIS ACT. 
     
     lst Column.§2d Column. 
     
     Per cent’ge Other 
     
     ad valorem Duties. 
     
     ARTICLES. . duty on 
     
     chl'y £100 
     
     currency 
     
     value per 
     
     Invoice. 
     
     £ 8. (1. £ d. d. 
     
     Anchors and Chain Cables 1 O O 
     
     Almonds, Jordan and Shelled, perlb. 0 0 8 
     
     Ale, Porter and Beer per gallon 0 0 5 
     
     lilm‘ks add Dead Eyes 5 0 0 
     
     liul‘ lron. Bar and Spring Steel 5 U () 
     
     liulfalu Robes ll 0 0 
     
     Boots and Shoes of all kinds I2 10 0 
     
     Bread. fine. and Crackers “fall kinds. 
     
     except Ship and Navy Bread 1] 0 0 
     
     Butter thccwt. O 10 0 
     
     Bread. Ship and Pilot, per 100 lbs. 0 1 0 
     
     Bacon the cwt. 0 10 0 
     
     lieet‘the barrel 0 6 0 
     
     Brooms (com) 12 IO 0 
     
     Books. being the reprints of British 
     
     authors, umh-r the Imperial Act 
     
     11th Vietoria. cap 28. 20 0 0 
     
     Burning Fluid, Kerosene. Parafine. 
     
     Rook Combination and all other 
     
     deSeripnons ol Oils manufactured 
     
     from coal, per gallon 0 0 7,} 
     
     Canvas and Sail Cloth 2 0 0 
     
     Copper. Brass and Composition Bars, 
     
     Bolts. Rudder braces, Clinch rings, 
     
     Sheets and Sheathing Nails 2 0 0 
     
     Clothes ready made. namely. Coats. 
     
     Orercouts, Vests. Jackets and 
     
     Trousers 12 IO 0 
     
     Carriages of all kinds 12 10 0 
     
     Cigars 20 0 0 
     
     Clocks 25 0 0 I 
     
     Coli'ee, roasted or ground. per lb. 0 0 3 
     
     Colfee, green. per lb. 0 0 2 
     
     Chocolate. Cocoa paste or Broma per 
     
     lb. 0 0 3 
     
     Cider per gallon 0 (l 5 
     
     Confectionery of all kinds per lb. 0 0 4 
     
     Currants. Raisins, Prunes. Figs and 
     
     all other kinds of dried fruit, per 0 0 l 
     
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     Cheese the cwt. 0 5 O 
     
     Cordage. (see Rigging) 
     
     Flour. Wheat and Rye and Corn- 
     
     meal per barrel 0 l 6 
     
     Fruit. and Vegetables. undried 5 0 0 
     
     Gypsum. ground and unground 5 0 0 
     
     Hams. the ewt. 0 10 0 
     
     Iron Bars and Straps. intended {or 
     
     strapping riders and knees of ships 2 0 0 
     
     Jewellery of all kinds 11 0 0 
     
     [Leather 0! all kinds, except 8012 
     
     Leather 5 0 0