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Private Act. An Act to authorise the construction, maintenance, and working of a Tramway for horse-traction in and between certain parts of the City of Adelaide and the Town of Goodwood, and places suburban thereto, and for other purposes.

[Assented to, November 18th, 1881.] Private Act. An Act to enable the Trustees of the piece or parcel of land and hereditaments, situate in Rundle-street, in the City of Adelaide, and known as the Adelaide Jewish Synagogue property, by the direction of the members for the time being of the Adelaide Hebrew Congregation, to sell, mortgage, or lease the said piece or parcel of land and hereditaments, and to make provision for the disposal of the proceeds thereof, and to extend the trusts upon which the said piece or parcel of land and hereditaments are held. [Assented to, November 18th, 1881.] Private Act. An Act to amalgamate the Holdfast Bay Railway Company, Limited, and the Adelaide, Glenelg, and Suburban Railway Company, Limited, and for other purposes. [Assented to, November 18th, 1881.] Private Act. An Act to enable the Liquidators of "The Port Adelaide, Queenstown, Alberton, and Portland Estate Tramway Company, Limited," to sell the said undertaking to William Rendall Cave and John Darling the younger.

[Assented to, November 18th, 1881.]

Private Act. An Act to authorise the Shareholders in a Joint Stock Company or Association, called "The Town and Country Bank, Limited," to carry on the business of Banking in the Province of South Australia, to incorporate such Shareholders under the style or title of "The Town and Couutry Bank," and to limit their liability. [Assented to, November 18th, 1881.]

An Act to authorise the making of Conventions between South Australia and New South Wales, and arrangements between South Australia and Victoria, with reference to Border Duties, and to amend the Law relating to the Duties of Customs and the mode of Collection thereof, and for other purposes.

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[Assented to, January 6th, 1881.]

HEREAS at a Conference held at Melbourne, in the months of Preamble. November and December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, the following memorandum was agreed to by the dulyaccredited representatives of the Governments of South Australia and New South Wales, that is to say-"The representatives of New South Wales and South Australia at this Conference agree that the convention entered into between these colonies, dated the thirtieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and which was terminated on the thirtieth day of June last, shall be brought into operation and continued for a period of three years from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, subject to the following modifications, viz. :-That the Colony of South Australia shall increase her duties on imported wines and spirits and on unmanufactured tobacco to the rate now levied in New South Wales, and shall also increase the duty payable on spirits distilled in the colony to two-thirds of that now levied on imported spirits in New South Wales; and that the yearly sum to be received by New South Wales, in lieu of the collection of the duties, shall be Forty-seven Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, payable quarterly": And at the

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same Conference the following memorandum was agreed to by the duly-accredited representatives of the Governments of South Australia and Victoria, that is to say-" The representatives of Victoria and South Australia agree not to collect duties on the border between those colonies, but to institute a system of permits in accordance with the draft agreement submitted by the Victorian Government and printed as a South Australian Parliamentary Paper, No. 130 of 1880": And whereas it is expedient to ratify the said several agreements, and to authorise the making of conventions with New South Wales and arrangements with Victoria, pursuant to such resolutions, and for that purpose to amend the law relating to the imposition and mode of collection of the Duties of Customs, and by reason of the exceptional circumstances to give Legislative sanction to the increased duties already collected, and to indemnify the officers of Customs in manner hereinafter providedBe it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART I.

1. Any two Members of the Executive Council, acting for and on behalf of South Australia, may make and enter into conventions with any persons acting for and on behalf of New South Wales, for the purpose of enabling all or any goods, including live-stock, to be imported from South Australia into New South Wales, and from New South Wales into South Australia, across their respective borders or boundaries, without the payment of any Customs Duties or other charges.

2. It may be stipulated by any such convention that during the be paid to New South continuance thereof a certain sum shall be paid by South Australia to New South Wales, and provision may be made for increasing or diminishing the said sum in any specified events.

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Stipulations which may be inserted in conventions.

Period of conventions.

Alteration or determination of conventions.

3. Every such convention may contain such stipulations as the persons making the same shall deem desirable for effecting the purposes thereof, and in particular, if the persons making the same shall think fit, may contain provisions similar to those contained in the conventions validated by "The Border Duties Act of 1873," or regulating the like matters.

4. Every such convention may be made for a period not exceeding three years from the date thereof, and there may be inserted in any such convention any stipulations enabling either party to determine the convention before the expiration of the period for which the same shall be originally made.

5. Every such convention may be altered or determined by the Governor, with the consent of any persons acting for and on behalf of New South Wales, but save as aforesaid, or as may be provided for by such convention, no such convention shall be liable to alteration or determination.

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6. A copy of every such convention, and of every alteration PART I. thereof, shall be published in the Government Gazette, and every Copy of convention such convention, and all alterations thereof, shall have the force of and alterations to be law, and the operation of all laws and regulations in anywise repugnant thereto, so far as the same shall be repugnant thereto, shall be suspended, so long as any such convention, or any alteration thereof, shall continue in force; and the Treasurer of the said province, during the continuance of any such convention, or any alteration thereof, shall pay such sums as may become payable pursuant thereto, in manner appointed thereby, and a copy of every convention made under the authority of this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, within fourteen days after the same shall have been entered into, if Parliament shall then be in Session, otherwise within fourteen days after the commencement of its next Session.

7. In the event of the determination of any such convention, Determination of before the expiration of the period for which the same shall be convention to be made known by Proclamaoriginally made, such determination shall be made known by Pro- tion. clamation published in the Government Gazette.

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8. The Governor may make any arrangement with the Governor Power to make in Council of Victoria to admit of goods being sent thereto from arrangements and regulations for goods South Australia, by land over the boundary between the said crossing the border colony and South Australia, without payment of Duties of Customs to and from adjacent on their importation into Victoria; and in like manner to admit of ment of duties. goods being brought from Victoria into South Australia, by land over the said boundary, without payment of Duties of Customs on their importation into South Australia. Every such arrangement shall, when published in the Government Gazette, have the same effect in law as if a portion of this Act, and shall, within fourteen days of its date, be laid on the tables of both Houses of Parliament, if then in Session, and if not in Session, then within fourteen days after the assembling thereof.

9. When any person desires to take by land over the boundary Permits may be between South Australia and Victoria any goods chargeable with granted. duty on their importation into Victoria, any officer in that behalf appointed by the Governor may grant to such person a permit under the provisions of this Act. From and after the date, and throughout the period on and during which any such permit shall entitle the holder thereof to import the goods therein mentioned into Victoria without payment of duty, a permit of a like character granted by any duly appointed officer of Victoria shall entitle the holder thereof to bring into South Australia from Victoria, by land over the said boundary without payment of duty, the goods specified in such permit.