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1834 S. Province Nfld. 1 (1834)

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                        ANNO   QUARTO


      GULIELMI IV. REGIS.




                         CAP. I.

 .4n  ACT   for  the  further   increase   of  the Revenue.

                                          [24th March, 1834.]

 W    HEREAS in   and by af ertain Act passed in the General Assem.
 bly of this Island of Newfoundland, in the Fourth year of the Reign Preamble.
 of His present Majesty, intituled  An Act for granting to His
 Majesty certain Duties on all Wines, and on all Brandy, Rum, Gin,
 and other Spiritous Liquors, imported into this Island and its Depen-
 dencies, it is enacted that certain Duties therein mentioned shall be
 levied, collected and paid upon all Wines, and all Brandy, Gin, Rum,
 and other Spiritous Liquors imported into Newfoundland, over and
 above certain other Duties then raised, levied and collected by virtue
 of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Sixth Year of the
 Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled  An
 Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions abroad: And
 Whereas the said last-mentioned Act of His said late Majesty bath
 been repealed, and a certain other Act hath passed in the Imperial
 Parliament in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of H is said
 present Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Trade of the
 British Possessions abroad : And Whereas doubts have arisen as to
 the amount of the several Duties payable under or by virtue of the
said Act of the General Assembly of this Island and the said Acts of
the Imperial Parliament : Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor,
Council and Assembly, in Colonial Parliament assembled, and by the Detiec roied under
authority of the same, that the full amount of the Duties mentioned oe Act of the
and expressed in the said Act of the General Assembly of this Colony Colonial Parliament
shall be levied, collected and paid, as therein directed, to His 
Majesty, his Heirs and Successors; and there shall be further raised, Additional Duty im-
levied, collected, and paid to His Majesty, his Heirs and Succes- posed of Sixpence
sors, on all Brandy, Gin, Rum,  and other Spiritous Liquors the Pae galon on ail
manufacture of the United Kingdom   or of any of His Majesty's W,  dcc.
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Colonies or Possessions, which shall or may, from and after the passing Island;
Of this Act, be imported into this Island of Newfoundland or its
Dependencies, the additional Duty of Sixpence Sterling per Gallon.