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AN ACT to alter the Duties of Customs
(Assented to 11th August, 1856.)
WHER
HEREAS it is expedient to alter the Duties of Customs payable on the
importation of Goods Wares and Merchandize into the Colony of
New Zealand
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand as
follows
Duties chargeable on 1 Any Duties of Customs chargeable upon the goods wares and mer-
goods specified to chandize next hereafter mentioned imported into the Colony of New Zealand
cease from 5th of shall cease and determine from and after the fifth day of August 1856 viz—
August 1856
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 Turnip 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 Passenger's 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
Duties chargeable on 2 The Duties of Customs now chargeable on the importation of goods
goods specified to wares and merchandize next hereafter specified shall cease and determine and
cease and other in lieu thereof the following duties shall be charged on all such goods wares
duties to be charged and merchandize 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 ma-
nufactured 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 Syke'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 1½
8 Tea the lb .. .. .. .. .. 0 0 3
9 Tobacco the lb .. .. .. .. .. 0 1 3
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NZ Gazette 1856, No 28
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💰 An Act to alter the Duties of Customs (Assented to 11th August, 1856)
💰 Finance & Revenue11 August 1856
Customs Duties, Legislation, Importation, Tariffs, Goods, Spirits, Tea, Tobacco