Meal, other. (See Grains.) Medals.. Free. Medicinal roots. - per ct. 10 Medicines, patent, and medicinal preparations, not elsewhere specified....... .per ct. 30 Menageries, horses, cattle, carriages, and harness of, subject to regulation by the governor in council. Free. Military clothing for her Majesty's troops or militia... Free. Military stores and materials for military clothing imported for the use of the provincial militia, under such restrictions as may be passed by the governor in council... Free. Molasses. (See Specific duties.) Mosses and sea grass for upholstery purposes Free. Musical instruments for military bands. Free. Nitre or saltpetre.. Free. Nuts of all kinds. Nutmegs •per ct. 30 Natural history, specimens of.. Free. Oakum.... Free. Oils-cocoa-nut, pine, and palm, in their crude, unrectified, or natural Packages containing free goods, in which they are usually imported... Packages, viz: bales, trusses, cases covering casks of wine or brandy in wood, cases and casks containing dry goods, hardware and cutlery, crates or casks containing glassware or earthenware, cases containing bottled wine or spirits, and other packages in which goods of the kind imported in them are usually imported, and which do not necessarily or generally accompany such goods when sold in the province.. Packages of all other kinds to pay same ad valorem duty as the goods they contain, unless the duty exceeds 30 per cent., in which case the duty on the packages to be 30 per cent. Packages containing specific goods, 20 per cent. ad valorem. Seeds for agricultural, horticultural, or manufacturing purposes only... Free. Ships' blocks.... Free. Spelter in block or pig. Free. Specimens of natural history, mineralogy, or botany. Spices, ground............. .per ct. 30 Spirits and strong waters, including spirits of wine and alcohol, not being whiskey. Spirits of turpentine.. Starch per ct. 30 Statues, busts, and casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris, Tiles, drain, for agricultural purposes... Free. Timber and lumber of all kinds, round, hewed, sawed, uumanufactured Tools and implements of trade of handicraftsmen arriving in Canada, when accompanied into the province by the actual settler, and brought in by such settler for his own use and not for sale, machinery excepted. Tow, undressed.... Tubes and piping of copper, brass, or iron, when drawn Varnish, bright and black, for ship-builders, other than copal, carriage, Vegetables not elsewhere specified.. ..... shellac, mastic, or Japan... Vehicles of travellers, except those of hawkers or peddlers. Walnuts... Water lime, unground. Wearing apparel and clothing made by hand or sewing-machine, pcr ct. Wine of all kinds... Wine, spirits, and fermented liquors of all kinds imported for officers' mess, and the packages containing the same. Wire, iron.... 25 - per ct. 20 Free. Wood for hoops, when not notched. Free. Woods of all kinds... Wool..... Zinc, in sheets All importations for the use of her Majesty's army and navy serving in Canada, or for the public uses of the province. All goods not hereinbefore enumerated, subject to 20 per cent. duty. Free. Free. LIST OF ARTICLES AFFECTED BY THE AMENDMENT. Coffee, green, ground, or roasted, 3 cents per pound, and 10 per centum ad valorem. Molasses, 5 cents per gallon, and 15 per centum ad valorem. Sugar, raw, 2 cents per pound, and 15 per centum ad valorem. Sugar, refined, or equal to refined in quality, 3 cents per pound, and 25 per centum ad valorem. Confectionery, 3 cents per pound, and 25 per centum ad valorem. Tea, former duties repealed, now 4 cents per pound, and 15 per centum ad valorem. Whiskey, former duties repealed, now 25 cents per gallon. Oil, kerosene, coal, and petroleum, distilled or refined, former duties repealed, now 10 cents per gallon. Scrap brass, former duties repealed, now free. Drain tiles for agricultural purposes, former duties repealed, now free. Silver or plated ware, &c., for the use of any regimental mess of officers of her Majesty's army serving in Canada, former duties repealed, now free. September 30, 1862. I have to report no changes, no modifications, in the commercial system of these provinces for the year past. The official reports of commerce and navigation, and other details concerning the commercial relations of the British North American provinces, have been forwarded to the department by our consul at Quebec, to which I would respectfully refer for any and all details contemplated by act of Congress on that subject. QUEBEC.-CHARLES S. OGDEN, Consul. DECEMBER 1, 1862. I have the honor to furnish the custom-house returns of imports (in round numbers) for the last eleven months; the same will not be published in official form for some time. The value of imports for the eleven months amounts to $46,800,000; for the corresponding period of 1861 it amounted to only $41,300,000; the increase therefore is $5,500,000. But this increase is wholly in free goods, the import of dutiable goods having declined. Thus theIncrease in free goods is..... Decrease in dutiable goods.. Difference.. $6,500,000 1,000,000 $5,500,000 In the first eleven months of 1861 the duties amounted to $4,650,000, and during the same period in 1862 to $4,700,000. The first five months in 1862 showed a decrease in duties of half a million of dollars. The duties in the month of November, 1861, amounted to $253,000; same month in 1862, to $345,000. JANUARY 15, 1863. I have the honor to enclose to your department a comparative statement of the number and tonnage of steamers and sailing vessels for the port of Quebec, for the years 1861 and 1862, inward and outward, showing the number of men employed, countries from whence they came, and for which they have cleared, &c. As soon as the official report in all its details is issued, copies will be forwarded. Return of vessels inward for the years 1861 and 1862. Russia ........ .. ... ...................... Algiers, Africa........................................................ Rio de Janeiro, South America.............................................. New Brunswick........ 450 14 2 2,335 59 391 13 Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil. Total..... |