calculated on

Invoice.

of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, there shall be raised, levied and paid on the several articles hereinafter mentioned, imported or brought into this Island, from any place or country whatsoever, the several Impost duties, rates or impositions inserted, described and set forth in figures in the table of duties hereinafter contained, denominated "Table of Impost Duties," opposite to and against the said respective articles as therein mentioned, described and enumerated, and according to the value, number and quantity thereof, as therein specified. The first and Duties, how third columns of duties in the said table denoting the ad-valorem duty or amount payable on every one hundred dollars worth of the article imported, which shall be in like proportion for any less amount than one hundred dollars worth, and the second column denoting the specific duty on each article; and the said duties shall be calculated on the actual value or amount of the Invoice when reduced into the decimal system of Currency now by law established in this Island; and the amount of any Invoice of dutiable goods imported from the United States of America into this Island made out in the legal and established currency of the said United States of America shall, for all the purposes of this Act, be reduced into the Decimal Currency now by law established in this Island, by allowing for each dollar of the legal currency of the said United States of America the sum of one hundred cents of lawful current money of Prince Edward Island, or such other sum as the Lieutenant Governor or other Administrator of the Government of this Island in Council shall, from time to time, fix and determine; the rate so fixed by the Government to be published in the Royal Gazette Newspaper weekly, and in like proportion for any smaller part or fraction of a dollar.

Rate of Dollar.

TABLE OF IMPOST DUTIES REFERRED TO IN
THE PRECEDING CLAUSE OF THIS ACT.

2.50

Tobacco, manufactured, per lb.,
Tobacco, unmanufactured, duty on

the same to be levied on the
quantity imported, without any
deduction for stems or otherwise,
per lb.,

Watches, and all Machinery used
in the formation thereof,
Wood, articles manufactured from,
and such articles of which wood
forms the principal or more val-
uable part, not hereinbefore men-
tioned,

WINE, SPIRITS, &c.,
Wines, Claret, and all other light
Wines except Port and Sherry,
the first cost of which is under
£20 sterling, per pipe,

00.00 0.09

00.00 0.05 2.50

11.00 0.00 2.50

12.50 0.00 2.50

25.00 0.00 2.50

Port and Sherry Wines and all other
Wines costing £20 sterling, per
pipe, in addition to ad-valorem
duty, per gallon,

Spirits, namely, Brandy, imported
into this Island at the Ports of
Charlottetown, Georgetown, Sum-
merside and Souris, not exceed-
ing the strength of proof by
Syke's hydrometer, and so in
proportion for any greater strength
than the strength of proof, per
gallon,
Spirits, namely, Brandy, imported
into this Island at any other
Ports, for every gallon thereof,
of any strength under and not
exceeding the strength of proof,
28 by the bubble,

And for every bubble below 28 in
number, by the bubble, an addi-
tional 6 cents per gallon,
Spirits, namely, Gin, Cordials and
Whiskey, imported into this Is-
land at the Ports of Charlotte-
town, Georgetown, Summerside
and Souris, not exceeding the
strength of proof by Syke's hy-
drometer, and so in proportion
for any greater strength of proof,
per gallon,
Spirits, namely, Gin, Cordials and
Whiskey, imported into this Is-
land at any other Ports, for every
gallon thereof, of any strength
under and not exceeding the
strength of proof 28 by the bub-
ble.

05.000.72 2.50

00.00 0.80 2.50

00.000.80 2.50

00.00 0.06 0.00

00.00 0.72 2.50

00.000.72 2.50