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MONEY SUPPORT OF GOVERNMENT.

EXPORTS. IMPORTS.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.

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117. The several provinces shall retain all their respective public property not otherwise disposed of in this act, subject to the right of Canada to assume any lands or public property required for fortifications or for the defense of the country.

Money for the Support of Government.

118. The following sums shall be paid yearly by Canada to the several provinces for the sup port of their governments and legislatures: Ontario, eighty thousand dollars; Quebec, seventy thousand; Nova Scotia, sixty thousand; New Brunswick, fifty thousand; total, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars; and an annual grant in aid of each province shall be made, equal to eighty cents per head of the population as ascer tained by the census of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the case of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by each subsequent decennial census until the population of each of those two provinces amounts to four hundred thousand souls, at which rate such grant shall thereafter remain. Such grants shall be in full settlement of all future demands on Canada, and shall be paid half yearly in advance to each province; but the government of Canada shall deduct from such grants, as against any province, all sums chargeable as interest on the public debt of that province in excess of the several amounts stipulated in this act.

119. New Brunswick shall receive by halfyearly payments in advance from Canada for the period of ten years from the union an additional allowance of sixty-three thousand dollars per annum: but as long as the public debt of that province remains under seven million dollars, a deduction equal to the interest at five per centum per annum on such deficiency shall be made from that allowance of sixty-three thousand dollars.

120. All payments to be made under this act, or in discharge of liabilities created under any act of the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick respectively, and assumed by Canada, shall, until the parliament of Canada otherwise directs, be made in such form and manner as may from time to time be ordered by the governorgeneral in council.

121. All articles of the growth, produce or manufacture of any one of the provinces shall, from and after the union, be admitted free into each of the other provinces.

122. The customs and excise laws of each province shall, subject to the provisions of this act, continue in force until altered by the parlia ment of Canada.

Exports and Imports Between Provinces.

123. Where customs duties are, at the union, leviable on any goods, wares or merchandises in any two provinces, those goods, wares and merchandises may, from and after the union, be imported from one of those provinces into the other of them on proof of payment of the customs duty leviable thereon in the province of exportation, and on payment of such further amount (if any) of customs duty as is leviable thereon in the province of importation.

124. Nothing in this act shall affect the right of New Brunswick to levy the lumber dues provided in chapter fifteen of title three of the revised statutes of New Brunswick, or in any act amending that act before or after the union, and not increasing the amount of such dues; but the lumber of any of the provinces other than New Brunswick shall not be subject to such dues.

125. No lands or property belonging to Canada or any province shall be liable to taxation.

126. Such portions of the duties and revenues over which the respective legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had before the union power of appropriation as are by this act reserved to the respective governments or legislatures of the provinces, and all duties and revenues raised by them in accordance with the special powers conferred upon them by this act, shall in each province form one consolidated revenue fund to be appropriated for the public service of the province.

127. If any person, being at the passing of this act a member of the legislative council of Canada, Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, to whom a place in the senate is offered, does not within thirty days thereafter, by writing under his hand addressed to the governor-general of the province of Canada or to the lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick (as the case may be), accept the same, he shall be deemed to have declined the same; and any person who, being at the passing of this act a member of the legislative council of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, accepts a place in the senate shall thereby vacate his seat in such legislative council.

Must Take the Oath of Allegiance.

128. Every member of the senate or house of commons of Canada shall, before taking his seat therein, take and subscribe before the governorgeneral or some person authorized by him, and every member of à legislative council or legislative assembly of any province shall, before taking his seat therein, take and subscribe before the lieutenant-governor of the province or some person authorized by him, the oath of allegiance contained in the fifth schedule to this act; and every member of the senate of Canada and every member of the legislative council of Quebec shall also, before taking his seat therein, take and subscribe before the governor-general or some person authorized by him, the declaration of qualification contained in the same schedule.

129. Except as otherwise provided by this act, all laws in force in Canada, Nova Scotia or New Brunswick at the union, and all courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction, and all legal commissions, powers and authorities, all officers, judicial, administrative and ministerial, existing therein at the union, shall continue in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick respectively, as if the union had not been made; subject nevertheless (except with respect to such as are enacted by or exist under acts of the parliament of Great Britain or of the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), to be repealed, abolished or altered by the parliament of Canada, or by the legislature of the respective province, according to the authority of the parliament or of that legislature under this act.

130. Until the parliament of Canada other. wise provides, all officers of the several provinces having duties to discharge in relation to matters other than those coming within the classes of subjects by this act assigned exclusively to the legislatures of the provinces shall be officers of Canada, and shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices under the same liabilities, responsibilities and penalties as if the union had not been made.

131. Until the parliament of Canada otherwise provides, the governor-general in council may from time to time appoint such officers as the governor-general in council deems necessary or proper for the effectual execution of this act.

132. The parliament and government of Canada shall have all powers necessary or proper for performing the obligations of Canada or of any province thereof, as part of the British empire, toward foreign countries, arising under treaties between the empire and such foreign countries.

English and French in Parliament.

133. Either the English or the French language may be used by any person in the debates of the houses of the parliament of Canada and of the houses of the legislature of Quebec; and both those languages shall be used in the respective records and journals of those houses; and either of those languages may be used by any person or in any pleading or process in or issuing from any court of Canada established under this act, and in or from all or any of the courts of Quebec.

The acts of the parliament of Canada or of the legislature of Quebec shall be printed and published in both those languages.

134. Until the legislature of Ontario and of Quebec otherwise provides, the lieutenantgovernors of Ontario and Quebec may each appoint under the great seal of the province the following officers, to hold office during pleasure, that is to say,-the attorney-general, the secretary and registrar of the province, the treasurer of the province, the commissioner of crown lands, and the commissioner of agricultural and public works, and in the case of Quebec the solicitorgeneral; and may, by order of the lieutenantgovernor in council, from time to time prescribe the duties of those officers and of the several departments over which they shall preside or to which they shall belong, and of the officers and clerks thereof; and may also appoint other and additional officers to hold office during pleasure. and may from time to time prescribe the duties of those officers, and of the several departments over which they shall preside or to which they shall belong, and of the officers and clerks thereof.

Powers and Duties of Executive Officers.

135. Until the legislature of Ontario or Quebec otherwise provides, all rights, powers, duties, functions, responsibilities or authorities at the passing of this act vested in or imposed on the attorney-general, solicitor-general, secretary and registrar of the province of Canada, minister of finance, commissioner of crown lands, commissioner of public works and minister of agriculture and receiver-general, by any law, statute or ordinance of Upper Canada, Lower Canada, or

Canada, and not repugnant to this act, shall be vested in or imposed on any officer to be appointed by the lieutenant-governor for the discharge of the same or any of them; and the commissioner of agriculture and public works shall perform the duties and functions of the office of minister of agriculture at the passing of this act imposed by the law of the province of Canada, as well as those of the commissioner of public works.

136. Until altered by the lieutenant-governor in council, the great seals of Ontario and Quebec respectively shall be the same, or of the same design, as those used in the provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada respectively before their union as the province of Canada.

137. The words " and from thence to the end of the then next ensuing session of the legislature," or words to the same effect, used in any temporary act of the province of Canada not expired before the union, shall be construed to extend and apply to the next session of the parliament of Canada. if the subject matter of the act is within the powers of the same, as defined by this act, or to the next sessions of the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec respectively, if the subject matter of the act is within the powers of the same as defined by this act.

138. From and after the union the use of the words" Upper Canada " instead of "Ontario," or "Lower Canada" instead of "Quebec," in any deed, writ, process, pleading, document, matter or thing, shall not invalidate the same.

Concerning Proclamations.

139. Any proclamation under the great seal of the province of Canada issued before the union to take effect at a time which is subsequent to the union, whether relating to that province, or to Upper Canada, or to Lower Canada, and the several matters and things therein proclaimed shall be and continue of like force and effect as if the union had not been made.

140. Any proclamation which is authorized by any act of the legislature of the province of Canada to be issued under the great seal of the province of Canada, whether relating to that province, or to Upper Canada, or to Lower Canada, and which is not issued before the union, may be issued by the lieutenant-governor of Ontario or of Quebec, as its subject matter requires, under the great seal thereof and from and after the issue of such proclamation the same and the several matters and things therein proclaimed shall be and continue of the like force and effect in Ontario or Quebec as if the union had not been made.

141. The penitentiary of the province of Canada shall, until the parliament of Canada otherwise provides, be and continue the penitentiary of Ontario and Quebec.

142. The division and adjustment of the debts, credits, liabilities, properties and assets of Upper Canada and Lower Canada shall be referred to the arbitrament of three arbitrators, one chosen by the government of Ontario, one by the govern ment of Quebec and one by the government of Canada; and the selection of the arbitrators shall not be made until the parliament of Canada and the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec have met; and the arbitrator chosen by the government of Canada shall not be a resident either in Ontario or in Quebec.

143. The governor-general in council may from time to time order that such and so many of the records, books and documents of the province of Canada as he thinks fit shall be appropriated and delivered either to Ontario or to Quebec, and the same shall thenceforth be the property of that province; and any copy thereof or extract therefrom, duly certified by the officer having charge of the original thereof, shall be admitted as evi

dence.

144. The lieutenant governor of Quebec may from time to time, by proclamation under the great seal of the province, to take effect from a day to be appointed therein, constitute townships in those parts of the province of Quebec in which townships are not then already constituted, and fix the metes and bounds thereof.

145. Inasmuch as the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have joined in a declaration that the construction of the intercolonial railway is essential to the consolidation of the union of British North America, and to the assent thereto of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and have consequently agreed that provision should be made for its immediate construction by the government of Canada: Therefore, in order to give effect to that agreement, it shall be the duty of the government and parliament of Canada to provide for the commencement, within six months after the union, of a railway connecting the river St. Lawrence with city of Halifax in Nova Scotia, and for the construction thereof without intermission and the completion thereof with all practicable speed.

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IMPORTANT FACTS FOR DAILY USE RELATING TO THE CANADIAN DOMINION.

Admission of Other Colonies.

146. It shall be lawful for the queen, by and with the advice of her majesty's most honorable privy council, on addresses from the houses of the parliament of Canada, and from the houses of the respective legislatures of the colonies or prov inces of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and British Columbia, to admit those colonies or provinces, or any of them, into the union, and on address from the houses of the parliament of Canada to admit Rupert's Land and the Northwestern Territory, or either of them, into the union, on such terms and conditions in each case

as are in the addresses expressed and as the queen
thinks fit to approve, subject to the provisions of
this act; and the provisions of any order in coun-
cil in that behalf shall have effect as if they had
been enacted by the parliament of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

147. In case of the admission of Newfound-
land and Prince Edward Island, or either of them,
each shall be entitled to a representation in the
senate of Canada of four members, and (notwith-
standing anything in this act) in case of the
admission of Newfoundland the normal number
of senators shall be seventy-six and their maxi-
mum number shall be eighty-two; but Prince

Edward Island when admitted shall be deemed to be comprised in the third of the three divisions into which Canada is, in relation to the constitution of the senate, divided by this act, and accordingly, after the admission of Prince Edward Island, whether Newfoundland is admitted or not, the representation of Nova Scotia and New Bruns wick in the senate shall, as vacancies occur, be reduced from twelve to ten members respectively, and the representation of each of those provinces shall not be increased at any time beyond ten, except under the provisions of this act for the appointment of three or six additional senators under the direction of the queen.

CANADIAN TABLES OF REFERENCE,

Relating to Population, Game Laws, Nativity of Inhabitants, Denominational Strength and Tariff Duties.

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4,611........6,812. .2.201

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The decrease of the population of the city of St. John is attributed to the great fire which occurred in the year 1877.

Otter..

Beaver

Muskrat

.From Apr. 1 to Nov. 1..From Apr. 15 to Oct. 15
.From May 1 to Nov. 1..From May 1 to Oct. 1
.From May 1 to Nov. 1.. From Apr. 30 to Sept. 1
From May 1 to Nov. 1..From May 1 to Apr. 1

Net or seine fishing without license is prohibited. Nets must be raised from Saturday night until Monday morning of each week.

Nets cannot be set or seines used so as to bar channels or bays. Indians are forbidden to fish illegally the same as white men.

Each person guilty of violating these regulations is liable to fine and costs, or in default of payment is subject to imprisonment.

No person shall, during such prohibited times, fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or have in possession any of the kinds of fish or game mentioned above.

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DUTY CHARGED BY CUSTOMS OFFICERS BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

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TARIFF DUTIES UPON GOODS,

Collected by the Canadian and American Governments on Various Articles in Common Use, According to the Tariff Rates in Canada, and Adopted by the United States Congress, March 3, 1883.

Various articles upon which duty is paid are here omitted, for want of room, but those are given which, by general use, most directly concern the people.

Goods Subject to Duty.

Agricultural Implements, not otherwise herein provided for, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem.. Animals, living, of all kinds, except for breeding purposes, twenty per cent. ad valorem... Artificial Flowers and Feathers, twenty-five per cent ad valorem...

Bird Cages of all kinds, thirty per cent ad valorem

Blacking, shoe, and shoemakers' ink, twenty-five per cent ad valorem.. BOOKS

Books, printed, periodical and pamphlets, not elsewhere specified, not being foreign reprints of British copyright works, nor blank account-books, nor copy-books, nor books to be written or drawn upon, nor Bibles, prayer-books, psalm and hymn-books, fifteen per cent. ad valorem...

British copyright works, reprints of, fifteen per cent ad valorem, and in addition thereto twelve and a half per cent. ad valorem. Bibles, prayer-books, psalm and hymn-books, five per cent. ad valorem...... Blank-books, viz.: Account-books, copy-books, or books to be drawn or written upon, thirty per cent. ad valorem...

Printed, lithographed, or copper, or steel-plate bill-heads, checks, receipts, drafts, posters, cards, other commercial blank forms, labels of every description, advertising pictures or pictorial show-cards or bills, thirty per cent. ad val

orem..

Maps and charts, twenty per cent. ad valorem.. Playing-cards, thirty per cent. ad valorem. Printed music, bound or in sheets, six cents per pound..

BREADSTUFFS, VIZ.:

Barley, fifteen cents per bushel.. Buckwheat, ten cents per bushel.

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15 per cent

35 per cent 30 per cent

25 per cent

30 per cent

Fruits in air-tight cans, including cans, three cents per pound if sweetened and two cents per pound 3 c. pr b and 35 per c. and if not sweetened. 2 c. per b 25 per cent Fruits, preserved in brandy or other spirits, one dollar and ninety cents per imperial gallon..... $1.90 pr I. g. FURS, VIZ.:

Fur-skins, dressed, fifteen per cent. ad valorem. Caps, hats, muffs, tippets, capes, coats, cloaks and other manufactures of fur, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem Furniture, house, cabinet or office, finished or in parts, including hair, spring and other mattresses, show-cases, caskets and coffins of any material, thirty-five per cent. ad valorem....... Hair, curled, twenty per cent, ad valorem.. Hats, caps and bonnets, not elsewhere specified, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem. Honey, bees', in the comb or otherwise, three cents per pound........

15 per cent 15 pr. et. and 121⁄2 pr. et. 5 per cent

25 per cent

Hops, six cents per pound..

25 per cent

IRON AND MANUFACTURES OF, VIZ.: Pig, two dollars per ton..

25 per cent

30 per cent

20 per cent

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Indian corn, seven-and-a-half cents per bushel.. 7% c. pr bsh. 10 c. per bsh.

Oats, ten cents per bushel..

10 c. per bsh. 10 c. per bsh.

1 c. per 1% per cent

c. per th 1% c. per t 20 per cent 20 per cent 20 per cent 4 c. per b 25 per cent

Rice, one cent per pound.

Rye, ten cents per bushel..

Wheat, fifteen cents per bushel.

10 c. per bsh. 15 c. per bsh.

Peas, ten cents per bushel.....

10 c. per bsh.

Beans, fifteen cents per bushel.

15 c. per bsh.

10 c. per bsh. 20 e. per bsh. 10 per cent 10 per cent

Buckwheat meal or flour, one-fourth of one cent.

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Oatmeal, one-half cent. per pound..

40 c. por brl. c. per t

10 c. per bu.

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50 c. per brl. 50 c. per brl. 2 c. per t 20 per cent 4 c. per to 25 per cent

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Rice and Sago flour two cents per pound..

Brick, for building, twenty per cent. ad valorem.. Butter, four cents per pound..

Buttons of all kinds, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem..

Carriages, wagons, railway-cars and carriages, wheelbarrows, and other like articles, thirty per cent. ad valorem..

Cement, hydraulic, or water lime, ground, including barrels, forty cents per barrel. China and porcelain ware, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem..

Clocks, and parts thereof, thirty-five per cent, ad valorem...

Coal, bituminous, sixty cents per ton of two thousand pounds.

Cocoa-nuts, one dollar per hundred.
Coffee, green, two cents per pound.

Corks, and other manufactures of cork wood or
cork bark, twenty per cent. ad valorem...
Cotton, manufactures.
Earthenware and stoneware, brown or colored,
and Rockinghamware, twenty-five per cent, ad
valorem

Essences, viz.; of apple, pear, pineapple, rasp-
berry, strawberry, and other fruits, and vanilla,
one dollar and ninety cents per imperial gallon
and twenty per cent. ad valorem.
Feathers, ostrich and vulture, undressed, fifteen
and dressed, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem...
Flax-seed, ten cents per bushel....

Fruit, dried, viz.: Apples, two cents per pound.
FRUIT, GREEN, VIZ.:

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Old and scrap, two dollars per ton.. Sewing machines, whole, or heads, or parts of heads of sewing-machines, two dollars each, and in addition thereto twenty per cent. ad valorem...

Ink, for writing, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem Jewelry and manufactures of gold and silver, twenty per cent. ad valorem... Lard, tried or rendered, two cents per pound.. Lard, untried, one and a half cents per pound. Lead, old and scrap, and in pigs, bars, blocks and sheets, ten per cent. ad valorem,... Leather, sole, tanned but rough or undressed, ten per cent. ad valorem

Sole leather and belting leather, tanned but not waxed; and all upper leather, and French kid, fifteen per cent. ad valorem...

Boots and shoes and other manufactures of! leather, including gloves and mitts and leather belting, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem,. Malt, fifteen cents per bushel, upon entry for warehouse, subject to excise regulations... Marble, in blocks from the quarry, in the rough, or sawn on two sides only and not specially shapen, containing fifteen cubic feet or over, ten per cent. ad valorem...

Meats, fresh or salted, on actual weight as received in Canada, except shoulders, sides, bacon and hams, one cent per pound...... Nuts of all kinds, except cocoa-nuts, twenty per cent. ad valorem..

Oil-cloth for floors, stamped, painted or printed; table covers similarly prepared, and oiled and painted window blinds, thirty per cent, ad valo

rem

Organs, cabinet, viz.: On reed organs having not: more than two sets of reeds, a specific duty of ten dollars each; having over two and not over four sets of reeds, fifteen dollars each; having over four and not over six sets of reeds, twenty dollars; having over six sets of reeds, thirty dollars each; and in addition thereto, fifteen per centum ad valorem on the fair market value thereof..

Paintings, drawings, engravings and prints, twenty per cent. ad valorem, Paper-hangings or wall paper, thirty per cent. ad valorem...

Envelopes and all manufactures of paper not otherwise specified, twenty-five per cent ad valorem...

Pencils, lead, in wood or otherwise, twenty-five per cent ad valorem.. Pianofortes, viz.: All square pianofortes, whether' round-cornered or not, not over seven octaves, twenty-five dollars each; on all other square pianofortes, thirty dollars each; on upright pianofortes, thirty dollars each; on concert, semi-concert or parlor grand pianofortes, fifty dollars each; and in addition thereto fifteen per cent. ad valorem..... Plants, viz.: Fruit, shade, lawn and ornamental trees, shrubs and plants, twenty per cent. ad valorem...

Plates engraved on wood, and on steel or other
metal, twenty per cent. ad valorem.
Printing presses of all kinds, fifteen per cent. ad
valorem..

Putty, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem
Quinine, sulphate of, twenty per cent, ad valorem
Sails for boats and ships, also tents and awnings,
twenty-five per cent. ad valorem.

Salt (except salt imported from the United Kingdom, or any British possession, or imported for

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ARTICLES SUBJECT TO DUTY AND THOSE THAT ARE FREE INTO THE UNITED STATES.

Goods Subject to Duty.

the use of the sea or gulf fisheries, which shall be free of duty), in bulk, eight cents per one hundred pounds;. Seeds, viz.: Flower garden, field and other seeds, for agricultural purposes, when in bulk or in large parcels, fifteen per cent. ad valorem; when put up in small papers or parcels, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem...

Shingles, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem. Sewing silk and silk twist, twenty-five per cent ad valorem...

Silk velvets and all manufactures of silk, or of which silk is the component part of chief value, not elsewhere specified, except church vestments thirty per cent. ad valorem

Soap, common brown and yellow, not perfumed, one cent and a half per pound.. Steel, and manufactures of, viz.: On and after the first day of January, 1882, steel in ingots, bars, sheets and coils, railway bars or rails and fish plates, ten per cent. ad valorem.... Shovels, spades, hoes; hay, manure and potatoforks; rakes and rake teeth; carpenters', coop ers', cabinetmakers' and all other mechanics' tools, including files, edge tools of every description, axes, scythes, and saws of all kinds, thirty per cent. ad valorem....

Stereotypes and electrotypes of standard books,

ten per cent. ad valorem Grindstones, two dollars per ton..

Tea, viz.: Black two cents per pound and ten per cent. ad valorem..

Green and Japan tea three cents per pound and ten per cent. ad valorem..

Trunks, satchels, valises and carpet-bags, thirty per cent, ad valorem...

Twines of all kinds, not otherwise specified, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem,..

Type for printing, twenty per cent. ad valorem...
Vegetables, viz.: Potatoes, ten cents per bushel...
Tomatoes, thirty cents per bushel...
Tomatoes, in cans, two cents per pound..
And all other vegetables, including sweet pota-
toes, twenty per cent. ad valorem...
Vinegar, twelve cents per Imperial gallon...
Watches and watch cases, twenty-five per cent.
ad valorem..

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Wood and manufactures of, and woodenware, viz.: Pails, tubs, churns, brooms, brushes and other manufactures of wood not elsewhere specified, twenty-five per cent, ad valorem..... 25 per cent Hubs, spokes, felloes, and parts of wheels, rough

25 per cent 15 c. per bsh. 10 per cent 30 per cent § 10 per cent 30 per cent 7% c. p. w. g. 35 per cent

25 per cent

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Manufactures composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat, or other like animal, viz.: Shawls, blankets, and flannels of every description; cloths, doeskins, cassimeres, tweeds, coatings, overcoatings, felt cloth of every description, not elsewhere specified; horse-collar cloth; yarn, knitting yarn, fingering yarn, worsted yarn under number thirty; knitted goods, viz. Shirts, drawers, and hosiery of every description: seven and a half cents per pound, and in addition thereto 7% cp twenty per cent. ad valorem... 20 per cent Clothing, ready-made and wearing apparel of every description. including cloth caps, composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat, or other like animals, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the tailor, seamstress or manufacturer, except knit goods, ten cents per pound, and in addi 10 e pand tion thereto twenty-five per cent ad valorem. 25 per cent All manufactures composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat, or other like animals, not herein otherwise provided for, twenty per cent, ad valorem 20 per cent Treble ingrain, three ply and two-ply carpets,! composed wholly of wool, ten cents per square 10 c. p. sq. yd yard; and in addition thereto twenty per and cent. ad valorem.

20 per cent

Two-ply and three-ply ingrain carpets, of which,
the warp is composed wholly of cotton, or
other material than wool, worsted, the hair of
the alpaca goat, or other like animals, five 5 c. p. sq. yd.
cents per square yard, and in addition thereto and
twenty per cent. ad valorem..
20 per cent

Felt for boots and shoes and skirts, when im-
ported by the manufacturers for use in their
factories, fifteen per cent. ad valorem.
Felt for glove linings, and endless felt for paper,
makers, when imported by the manufactrers,
for use in their factories, ten per cent. ad val-

orem....

Wool, class one, viz.: Leicester, Cotswold, Lincoln-j shire, Southdown combing wools, or wools known as lustre-wools, and other like combing wools such as are grown in Canada, three cents per pound... Whips twenty-five per cent. ad valorem...

15 per cent

10 per cent

Duties range from 40 to 200 per cent.

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VARIOUS ARTICLES WHICH MAY BE IMPORTED FREE OF TARIFF DUTY INTO THE UNITED STATES, Not the entire free list, but including those which most generally interest the people.

Acids, boracic.

Acids, carbolic, for chemical or manufactur'g purposes. Acids, muriatic.

Acids, nitric, not chemically

pure.

Acids, sulphuric. Adhesive-felt, for sheathing vessels.

African Fibre, unmanufactured, for beds.

Agates, unmanufactured.

Albumen.

Almond-oil.

Almond-shells.

Aloes.

Amber in the gum.

American artists, works of.
Ammonia, crude.
Angelica root.

Angora Goats, alive.

Angora Skins, without wool.
Aniline-oil, crude.
Animal-carbon.

Animal Manures.

Animals, specially imported

for breeding purposes, must be of superior breed for improvement of stock Anise-seed.

Anise-oil.

Annotta or Annotto, and all extracts of, and seed. Antiquities, for cabinets. Aquafortis.

Arsenic.

Ashes, beet-root.

Baggage of immigrants or returning tourists, in actual use.

Bagging Waste, fit only for making paper.

Bags, gunny, old or refuse, fit only to be remanufactured.

Balm of Gilead.

Balsams, copaiva or copaiba.
Balsams, fir, or Canada.
Balsams, Peruvian.

Bamboo sticks, canes, or for
umbrella sticks.
Basswood-bark.
Beads, amber.
Bed-feathers, or downs.
Beds, curled hogs-hair, for.
Bees, of superior stock for
breeding.

Beet-root Ashes.

Belladonna, root and leaf.
Bell-metal.
Bergamot-oil.

Berries, for dyeing.
Berries, juniper and laurel.
Birds, living or stuffed.
Bleaching Powders.
Bologna Sausages.
Bone-ash and bone-dust, for
manufacture of phosphates
and fertilizers.

Bones, crude, burned, not
manufactured, ground, cal-
cined or steamed.
Books which have been
printed over twenty years.
Books specially imported in

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of the fisheries of the Dominion of Canada, Prince Edward's Island, Newfoundland, or Labrador (but not British Columbia), except fish of the inland lakes, or of the rivers falling into them, and except fish preserved in oil.

Fish, simply packed in ice for preservation while in transit to market and intended for immediate consumption.

Fish oil, the product of the sea fisheries of Canada, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador (but not British Columbia). Flax Waste for paper stock. Flint, flints and ground flintstones.

Flowers, natural, dried and prepared.

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ARTICLES WHICH ARE ADMITTED FREE OF DUTY.

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Gold Coin.

Gold Medals.

Gold, old and unfit for use without remanufacture Gold Size.

Gold Sweepings.

Grasses and Pulp of, for making paper.

Grease, for use as soap-stock only, not otherwise specined.

Guitar Strings, gut.

Gums, all not otherwise specified.

Gut, cat or whip, unmanufactured.

Gut and Worm-gut, for whip
and other cord, manufac-
tured or not.

Gut-cord or cat-gut strings.
Gut-rope or whip-gut strings.
Guts, salted.

Gutta-percha,

unmanufac

tured or crude. Gypsum, unground.

Hair, hogs', curled, for beds and mattresses, not fit for bristles.

Hair, horse and cattle,
cleaned or uncleaned,drawn
or undrawn, but unmanu-
factured.

Hair, sheep-skins, sheared.
Harp-strings, gut.
Hemp, Indian.

Hide-rope.

Hides, raw, hair removed by liming.

Hoofs.

Hoop-timber, round, in its
natural condition, with the
bark on.

Hop-roots, for cultivation.
Horn, in strips.

Horn, tips.

Horses, of superior breed for the improvement of stock. Ice.

Iceland Moss.

Indian-hemp, crude.

India-rubber, crude.

India-rubber, crude, in rough sheets.

Isinglass.

Ivory, and vegetable ivory,
unmanufactured.

Ivory Nuts, unmanufactured.
Japan-wax.

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Newspapers, imported by the
mails, not exceeding 1,000
grammes (2 lbs. 3 ozs).
Newspapers, to be recon-
verted into paper.
Nutgalls.

Oak-bark.
Oakum.

Oilcake, of linseed.
Oil-stone.

Oils, almonds.

Oils, bergamot.
Oils, lavender.

Oils, ottar or otto, of roses.
Oils, poppies.

Oils, rosemary.
Oils, valerian.

Oils, vitriol or sulphuric acid.
Oils, whale, American fish-
eries.

Orange-flowers or buds.
Orange-peel, not preserved.
Ores, gold and silver.
Paintings by American ar-
tists.

Paintings for municipal cor-
porations.

Palm-leaf, unmanufactured.
Paper-stock, crude, of every
description.

Pearl, mother of.

Pebbles, for spectacles, Bra-
zil or other, rough.
Pelts, raw, not otherwise

specified.

Pewter, old, fit only to be
remanufactured.

Photographs, specially im-
ported for exhibition, not
for sale.

Piling, rough logs with bark

on.

Pitch, Burgundy.

Plants, crude, used exclu-
sively for dyeing or making
dyes.

Plants, for use of United
States.

Plants, medicinal, crude.
Plants, tropical and semi-
tropical for propagation or
cultivation.

Plaster of Paris, unground.
Plates, plain.

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Samples, small strips of silk,
cotton or other fabrics,
small quantities of
material, and articles of
any description having
little or no intrinsic value
as merchandise.
Sandal-wood.
Sarsaparilla.
Sassafras Bark and Root.
Scrap-leather, old.
Seal-skins, raw or undressed.
Seeds, for use of United
States.

Seeds, garden, not otherwise
specified.

Seeds, hemlock.

Seeds, medicinal, crude, not
otherwise specified.
Shrimps.

Silk, all raw, or as reeled
from the cocoon, not being
doubled, twisted,
ad-
vanced in manufacture any
way.

Silk, waste.

Silk Bolting-cloth.

Silkworm Eggs.

Silver, bullion.

Silver, coins.

Silver, medals.

or

Polishing-stones, natural.

Myrrh-gum.

Necklaces,

amber beads

strung on threads.

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Silver, old, fit only for re-
manufacture.

Silver, sweepings
Singing-birds.

Size, gold.

Skeletons, and other preparations of anatomy.

Skins, fur, all not otherwise specified.

Skins, wool of no commercial
value.

Skins, mats and robes.
Skins, shark.
Spanish-flies.

Stones, lithographic, not en-
graved.

Straw, unmanufactured.
Tanning, articles in a crade
state, used in tanning, not
otherwise specifled.
Tapioca.

Tea.
Tea-plants.
Teasels.

in

Telegraph-poles, wood.
Theatrical Wardrobes,
tended in good faith for the
personal use of the actor or
actress bringing them, and
of a reasonable amount.
Timber, all round unmanu-
factured.

Tin, bars, blocks or pigs.
Tortoise-shell, unmanufac-

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VARIOUS ARTICLES WHICH MAY BE IMPORTED FREE OF TARIFF DUTY INTO CANADA,

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