Laws of Nova Scotia Relating to Customs and Excise Duties and for the Prevention of Smuggling: As Amended : Rates of Duties Payable on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, Imported Into the Province : with Forms Used for Entering, Warehousing, Or Exporting, as Sanctioned by the Board of Revenue

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A. Grant, 1864 - 204 pages
"A volume of pre-Confederation import-export duties and statutes for Nova Scotian businessmen, as a means to prevent smuggling. Includes tables of dutied goods (with prices) as well as a table of exempt goods prior to the statutes."--John W. Doull catalogue listing.
 

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Page 13 - Her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain...
Page 14 - The said commissioners before proceeding to any business, shall make and subscribe a solemn declaration that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide to the best of their judgment, and according to justice and equity, without fear, favor or affection to their own country...
Page 18 - Articles shall remain in force for the period of ten years from the date at which they may come into operation ; and further until the expiration of two years after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same...
Page 18 - States, and further engages to urge upon the State Governments to secure to the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty the use of the several State canals...
Page 15 - It is agreed by the high contracting parties that British subjects shall have, in common with the citizens of the United States...
Page 37 - ... after notice in writing shall have been delivered to him or left at his usual place of abode by the attorney or agent of the party who intends to sue out such writ...
Page 16 - Fish of all kinds. Products of fish and of all other creatures living in the water. Poultry, eggs. Hides, furs, skins or tails undressed. Stone or marble in its crude or unwrought state. Slate. Butter, cheese, tallow. Lard, horns, manures.
Page 13 - States fishermen by the convention between the United States and Great Britain, signed at London on the 20th day of October, 1818, of taking, curing, and drying fish on certain coasts of the British North American colonies therein defined, the inhabitants of the United States shall have, in common with the subjects of her...
Page 17 - Canada, used as the means of communicating between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, with their vessels, boats, and crafts, as fully and freely as the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, subject only to the same tolls and other assessments as now are or may hereafter be exacted of Her Majesty's said subjects ; it being understood, however, that the British Government retains the right of suspending this privilege, on giving due notice thereof to the Government of The United States.
Page 41 - ... and whether she be laden or in ballast, and if laden the marks, numbers, and contents of every package and parcel of goods on board, and where the same was laden, and where and to whom consigned, and where any and what goods, if any, had been unladen during the voyage...

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