Assembly of New Zealand as fol-
lows:—

1.—Any Duties of Customs chargeable upon the goods, wares, and merchandise next hereafter mentioned imported into the Colony of New Zealand shall cease and determine from and after the fifth day of August, 1856—viz.:

1. All articles for the supply of Her Majesty’s land and sea forces.
2. Animals, living.
3. Bricks, Slates, and Stones for building purposes, and Mill Stones.
4. Boats.
5. Books, printed, not being account books.
6. Bottles, full of an article subject to duty.
7. Bullion and coin.
8. Casks, empty.
9. Coal.
10. Corn, Grain, Meal, Flour, Bread, and Biscuit.
11. Gunpowder, fit only for blasting purposes.
12. Iron, pig.
13. Machinery, viz. —Brick and Tile Making, Draining, Flax, Hay, and Wool Pressing, Straw, and Trimming Cutting, Reaping, Thrashing, and Winnowing Machines, Steam Engines, and Apparatus for ditto, and Machinery for Mills, including Hand Flour Mills.
14. Manure.
15. Oil, Blubber, and Bone, being the produce of fish or marine animals.
16. Plants, Bulbs, Trees, and Seeds.
17. Passengers’ personal Baggage.
18. Ploughs, and Harrows.
19. Specimens Illustrative of Natural History.
20. Tobacco, for sheep wash, subject to its being rendered unfit for human consumption, and to such regulations as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe in that behalf.

2.—The Duties of Customs now chargeable on the importation of goods, wares, and merchandise next hereafter specified shall cease and determine and in lieu thereof the following duties shall be charged on all such goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the Colony of New Zealand or cleared from any warehouse for home consumption from and after the 5th day of August, 1856, viz.:

£ s d

1. Ale, Beer, Cider, and Perry, in wood the gallon 0 0 6
   Ale, Beer, Cider, and Perry in bottle the gallon ... 0 1 0
2. Cigars, and Snuff the lb. 0 3 0
3. Coffee, Chicory, Cocoa, and Chocolate the lb ... 0 0 2
4. Iron, rod, bar, bolt, hoop, and sheet, not otherwise manufactured per cwt. ... 0 1 0
5. Salt, per cwt. ... 0 1 0
6. Spirits, and Strong Waters of every kind, sweetened, or otherwise, of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Sykes’s hydrometer, and so on in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of proof, the gallon ... 0 8 0
7. Sugar, raw, and refined, of all kinds, and Treacle and Molasses, the lb. ... 0 0 ½
8. Tea, the lb. ... 0 0 3
9. Tobacco, the lb. ... 0 1 3
10. Wine, in wood and bottle, containing less than 25 per cent of alcohol of a specific gravity of .825 at the temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit’s thermometer, the gallon ... 0 3 0
11. Wood, of all kinds, not manufactured into furniture, the cubic foot ... 0 0 2
12. Boots and Shoes, Hats, Apparel of all kinds, and all material for making apparel, Jewellery, Cutlery, Clocks, Watches, and Plated Ware, and all Silk, Woollen, Cotton, and Linen Manufactures, (except corn and gunny bags and Woolpacks,) Sperm, Stearine, and Wax Candles, (measuring outside the packages,) the cubic foot ... 0 3 0
13. All other goods, Wares, and Merchandize, (measuring outside the packages,) the cubic foot ... 0 1 0
    Or at the option of the principal Officer of Customs at the port of entry at which the same shall be imported, the cwt. ... 0 2 0

3.—A drawback of the whole of such duties shall be allowed for Wines in