A Duty equal in Amount to the Duty payable on a WHEAT MEAL AND FLOUR: For every Barrel, being One hundred and ninety-six A Duty equal in Amount to the Duty payable on BARLEY MEAL :— For every Quantity of Two hundred and seventeen and A Duty equal in Amount to the Duty payable on a OATMEAL AND GROATS: For every Quantity of One hundred and eighty-one A Duty equal in Amount to the Duty payable on a RYE MEAL AND FLOUR: For every Barrel, being One hundred and ninety-six A Duty equal in Amount to the Duty payable upon PEA MEAL AND BEAN MEAL : For every Quantity of Two hundred and seventy-two A Duty equal in Amount to the Duty payable on a If the Produce of and imported from any British Wheat, Barley, Bear or Bigg, Oats, Rye, S. d. WHEREAS by an Act passed in a Session of Parliament holden in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 90. Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act for grant Duties. Table of New Duties on ing Duties of Customs, the several Duties of Customs are im posed upon Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into or exported from the United Kingdom, as the same are respectively inserted, described, and set forth in Figures in the Tables 'marked (A.) and (B.) to that Act annexed, together with the additional Duties therein-after mentioned: And whereas it is 'expedient to make certain Alterations and Amendments therein :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That in lieu and instead of the Duties now payable by Law upon the Goods, Wares, and Merchandize mentioned in the Table to this Act annexed, when imported into the United Kingdom, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon the said Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, when imported into the United Kingdom, the several Duties of Customs as the same are respectively inserted, described, and set forth in Figures in the said lastmentioned Table. II. And be it enacted, That from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, the Duties of Customs now payable upon the Foreign Goods herein-after next mentioned shall cease and determine, and that in lieu thereof there shall be charged the following Duties on such Foreign Goods on their Importation into the United Kingdom; (that is to say,) Upon Upon TIMBER and WOOD GOODS not otherwise charged; videlicet, Timber or Wood, not being Deals, Battens, Boards, Staves, Handspikes, Oars, Lathwood, or other Timber or Wood sawn, split, or otherwise dressed, except hewn, and not being Timber or Wood otherwise charged with Duty, the Load of 50 Cubic Feet 1 0 0 0 15 0 Deals, Battens, Boards, or other Tim ber or Wood sawn or split, and not other wise charged with Duty the Load of 50 Cubic Feet 1 6 0 1 0 0 Staves, if exceeding 72 Inches in Length, 7 Inches in Breadth, or 34 Inches in Thickness the Load of 50 Cubic Feet Firewood, the Fathom of 216 Cubic Feet Handspikes, not exceeding Seven Feet in Length Length 1 3 0 0 18 8 0 0 60 the 120 0 16 0 0 12 0 the 120 1 12 4 0 0 8 0 6 0 Knees, under Five Inches Square the 120 Oars in Diameter the 120 0 16 0 0 12 0 Two Feet in Length the 1,000 1 12 0 exceeding Two Feet in Length the 1,000 Wood, planed, or otherwise dressed or prepared for Use, and not particularly enumerated, nor otherwise charged with Duty Or, in lieu of the Duties imposed upon Wood by the Load according to the Cubic Content, the Importer may have the Option, at the Time of passing the first Entry, of entering Battens, Batten Ends, Boards, Deals, Deal Ends, and Plank, by Tale, if of or from Foreign Countries, according to the following Dimensions; videlicet, Boards, Deals, Deal Ends, and Plank : Not above 6 Feet in Length, the 120 29 3 4 18 6 1 16 11 3 13 10 the 120 3 17 6 3 2 2 6 3 4 12 6 the 120 3 13 10 7 7 8 the 120 4 6 2 8 12 4 Not above 9 Inches in Width. in Thickness. the 120 1 19 6 3 19 0 Not above 14 Inch Above 1 Inch and not above 34 in Thickness. III. And be it enacted, That in lieu of the Duties of Customs Duties on now chargeable on the Articles herein-after next mentioned, Seeds. imported into the United Kingdom, the following Duties shall be charged from and after the First Day of June in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six; (that is to say,) IV. And be it enacted, That no Duties of Customs shall be Goods exemptchargeable upon the Goods, Wares, and Merchandize herein-after ed from Duty. next mentioned; (that is to say,) |