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FOREIGN  CUSTOMS  DUTIES
Duties  collected,  ^c.—Continued.

Names  of  articles.

60

Plated  ware
Provisions  :
Meat,  poultry,  game,  potted  or  preserved,  in  tinsor  jars
Meat  extract
Oleomargarine  and  lard
Butter
Cheese
Quicksilver
Seeds
Soap,  toilet,  scented  and  other  than  scented
Spirits  :
On  all  kinds  of  spirits  imported  into  the  colony,  the
strength  of  which  can  be  ascertained  by  Sykes’s
hydrometer.
No  allowance  beyond  16.5  shall  he  made  for  the
under  proof  of  any  spirits  of  a  leas  hydrometer
strength  than  16.5  underproof.
On  all  spirits  and  spirituous  compounds  imported  into
the  colony,  the  strength  of  which  cannot  he  ascertained ­
  by  Sykes’s  hydrometer.
Case  spirits  :
Reputed  contents  of  two,  three,  or  four  gallons
shall  ho  charged—
Two  gallons  and  under,  as  two  gallons.
Over  two  gallons  and  not  exceeding  three,  as  three
gallons.
Over  three  gallons  and  not  exceeding  four,  as  four
gallons.
Methylated  spirits
Wine:
Sparkling,  for  6  reputed  quarts  or  12  reputed
pints.
Other  kinds
Other  kinds,  for  6  reputed  quarts  or  12  reputed
pints.
Stai  ch  :
Starch  powder
Sugar  and  molasses
Sugar  candy
Tin:
Ingots
Sheet
Manufactures
Tobacco:
Delivered  from  ship’s  side  or  from  a  customs  bond  for
home  consumption,  manufactured,  unmanufactured, ­
  and  snutf.
Unmanufactured,  entered  to  he  manufactured  in  the
colony  at  the  time  of  removal  from  a  customs
bond  or  from  an  importing  ship,  to  any  licensed
tobacco  manufactory,  for  manufacturing  purposes ­
  only,  into  tobacco,  cigars,  or  cigarettes.
Sheepwasii  .
Vegetables,  preserved  (not  otherwise  charged),  salted,  or
in  brine,  in  sait  water,  preserved  mushrooms,
'  '  and  preserved  tomatoes.
Timber:
Dressed
Rough  and  undressed
Palings
Laths
Pickets,  dressed
Shingles
Wood  manufactures
Wool  and  woolen  manufactures
Wool  packs
Zinc:
Plain  sheet
Perforated  or  manufactured

Duty  in  English
currency.

5  per  cent,  ad  valorem
Id.  per  pound
2d.  per  pound
Id.  per  pound
Id.  per  pound
2d.  per  pound
5  per  cent,  ad  valorem
Free
Id.  per  pound
12».  per  proof  gallon...

12».  per  liquid  gallon...

2».  per  gallon
10».  per  gallon
5».  per  gallon
5».  per  gallon
IJd.  per  pound
lid.  per  pound
5  per  cent,  ad  valorem.
2d.  per  pound
Free
5  per  cent,  ad  valorem.
5  per  cent,  ad  valorem  .
3».  per  pound

1».  per  pound

3d.  per  pound.
Id.  per  pound.

3«.  per  100  superficial  feet
1«  6d.  per  100  superficial
feet.
1».  per  100  feet
Per  1.000
As  dressed  timber
Per  1,000
5  per  cent,  ad  valorem.
5  per  cent,  ad  valorem.
3«.  4d,  per  cwt
2».  per  cwt
3d.  per  cwt

Equivalent
in  American ­
  currency. ­


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Note.—The  full  tariff  of  New  South  Wales  was  printed  in  Consular
Reports  No.  51,  p.  677.