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Cecil Swale Diary, 1904
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CANADIAN TARIFF OF CUSTOMS
MEANING OF TERMS USED.In this Act, and in any other Act relating to customs, unless the context otherwise requires, - The intitials "n.e.s." represent and ahving the meaning of the words, " not elsewhere specified"; The intitials "n.o.p." represent and have the meaning of teh words "not otherwise provided for"; The expression "gallon" means an imperial gallon; The expression "ton" means two thousand pounds avoirdupos; The expression "proof's or "proof spirits," when applied to wines or spirits of any kind, means spirits of a strength equal to that of pure ethyl alcohol compounded with distilled water in such porportions that the resultant mixture shall at a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit have a specific gravity of 0.9198 as compared with that of distilled water at teh same temperature; The expression "gauge" when applied to metal sheets or plates or to wire, mean the thickness as determined by Stubb's standard gauge; The expression "in diameter" when applied to tubing, means the actual inside diameter; The expression "sheet," when applied to metals, means a sheet or plate not exceeding three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. FISH FROM THE UNITED STATES AND NEWFOUNDLAND.The whole or part of the duties hereby imposed upon fish and other products of the fisheries may be remitted as respects either the United States or Newfoundland, or both, upon proclamation of the Governor in Council, which may be issued whenever it appears to his satisfaction that the Governments of the United States and Newfoundland, or either of them, have made changes in their tariffs of duties imopsed upon articles imported from Canada, in reduction or repeal of the duties in force in the said countries respectively. EXPORT OF GAME PROHIBITED.The export of wild turkeys, quail, partidge, prairie fowl and woodcock, in the carcase of parts thereof, is hereby declared unlawful and prohibited; and any person exporting or attempting to export any such article shall for each offence incur a penalty of one hundred dollars, and the article so attempted to be exported shall be forfeited, and may, on reasonable casue of suspicion of intention to export, be seized by any officer of the customs, and, if such intention is proved, shall be dealth with as for breakch of the custom laws: Provided, that this section shall not apply to the export, under such regulations as are made by the Governor in Council, of any carcase of part thereof of any deer raised or bred by any person, company, or association of persons upon his or their own lands. |
designated by him and supplied to such officers as are by him charged with the duty of sampling and testing such molasses and syrups; and the decision of any officer (to whom is so assigned the testing of such articles) as to the duties to which they are subject udner the tariff shall be final and conclusive, unless upon appeal to the commissioner of customs within thirty days from rendering of such decision, such deicsion is, with approval of the controller, charged; adn the decision of the commissioner with such approval shall be final. DUTIES ON WINES AND SPIRITS.In the case of all wines, spirits, or alcoholic liquors subject to duty according to their relative strength of proof, such strength shall be ascertained either by means of Sykes's hydrometer or gravity bottle, it shall be ascertained by the distillation of a sample and the subsequent test in like manner of the distillate. MEDICINAL AND TOILET PREPARATIONS.All medicinal or toilet preparations imported for completing the manufacture thereof, or for the manufacture of any other article by the addition of any ingredient or ingredients, or by mixing such preparations, or by putting up or labelling the same, alone or with other articles or compounds, under any proprietary or special name or trade-mark, shall be valued for duty under the provision of subsection two of section sixty-five of The Customs Act, as amended by section fifteen of chapter fourteen of the statutes of 1888. |
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