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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     parts thereof as are hereby repealed, shall be and 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. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     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