New Ulster Gazette – 1851 – No. 23

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✨ Customs Duties Table



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following the passing thereof. And at every other Port of Entry within the Colony on the day next following the receipt of a copy hereof by the Principal Officer of Customs at any such Port, who is hereby required immediately upon the receipt hereof to give Public Notice of the same: and at all other places throughout the Colony on the sixth day of August next.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

Passed the Legislative Council, this Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one.

HENRY SHAFTO HARRISON,
Clerk of Council.

TABLE OF DUTIES OF CUSTOMS.

A.

DUTY.
£ s. d.
Agricultural Implements, not otherwise described, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Ale, Porter, and Beer of all sorts, in casks, per gallon 0 0 4
in bottle, per dozen of 2 gallons 0 1 0
Alkali—
Pot and Pearl Ash, per cwt. 0 2 4
Soda, per cwt. 0 2 4
Alum, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Animals, (living) Free.
Apothecary Wares, not otherwise described, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Apparel, not otherwise described, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Arms and Ammunition—
Ordnance of Brass or Iron, Muskets, Fowling Pieces, Pistols, Gunpowder, and Percussion Caps, (Importation prohibited except under license from the Government), for every £100 value 10 0 0
Arrowroot, per cwt. 0 3 6
Arsenic, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Artificial Flowers, for every £100 value 10 0 0

B.

DUTY.
£ s. d.
Bacon and Hams, per cwt. 0 2 0
Baggage of Passengers Free.
Bags (empty) —
Gunny bags, per dozen 0 0 6
Corn Sacks, per dozen 0 1 0
Bark, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Beef, salted—
per tierce 0 6 0
per barrel 0 4 0
Blankets (see Woollens)
Blacking, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Blocks, for ships’ rigging, and Dead Eyes Free.
Boats Free.
Books, Printed, not being Account Books Free.
Account Books, for every £100 value 10 0 0

Boots and Shoes—

£ s. d.
Boots, (Wellington and other long,) per dozen pair 0 8 0
Half Boots, per dozen pair 0 4 0
Shoes, and Women’s Boots and Shoes, per dozen pair 0 3 0
Children’s Boots and Shoes, per dozen pair 0 2 0

Brass Manufactures, of all sorts, for every £100 value | 10 0 0 |

| Bread and Biscuit | Free. |
| Bricks, Bath and Flanders, per 100 | 0 2 0 |
| Fire and other, per 1000 | 0 3 0 |
| Bottles, Glass and Stone (empty) per dozen | 0 0 1 |
| full | Free. |
| Butter, per lb. | 0 0 1 |
| Bullion and Coin | Free. |

C.

DUTY.
£ s. d.
Cabinet and Upholstery Wares, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Cables Free.
Candles—
Cocoa Nut, Palm, Spermaceti, Stearine, and Wax, per cwt. 0 14 0
Tallow, per cwt. 0 4 8
Canvas Duck, per bolt 0 3 0
Canes and Sticks, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Caps 10 0 0
Cloth, per dozen 0 2 0
Woollen, per dozen 0 0 8
Carpets, see Woollens
Carraway Seeds, per lb. 0 0 1
Carriages—
Carts and Waggons, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Carriage Wheels of all sorts, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Casks (see Wood)
Cement, Roman, per barrel 0 2 6
Chalk, per ton 0 2 0
Charcoal, Animal and Vegetable, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Cheese, per cwt. 0 4 8
Chocolate and Cocoa, per lb. 0 0 1
Cider and Perry, in bottle, per dozen of 2 gallons 0 1 3
Clocks and Watches, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Coals Free.
Coal Pitch and Tar Free.
Coin and Bullion Free.
Confectionery, for every £100 value 10 0 0
Copper & Composition Sheathing, Nails and Bolts Free.
Wrought of other sorts, per lb. 0 0 1
Cordage and Cables Free.
Coffee, per cwt. 0 4 8
Corks, for bottling, per gross 0 0 3
Corn, Grain, Meal, Flour, viz.—
Barley, per bushel 0 0 4
Hulled (see Pearl and Scotch Barley)


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3 July 1851
Customs, Duties, Ordinance, Legislative Council
  • G. Grey, Governor-in-Chief
  • Henry Shafto Harrison, Clerk of Council

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