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Date: 1830-04-29
By: United Kingdom (Commons)
Citation: Bill 344, A bill to amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of his late Majesty King George the Third, for establishing a Fund towards further defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice, and support of the Civil Government, within the Provinces of Quebec in America, 1830 sess, UK, 1830.
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11 Geo. IV. Sess. 1830.

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BILL

To amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth
Year of his late Majesty King George the
Third, for establishing a Fund towards
further defraying the Charges of the
Administration of Justice, and support of
the Civil Government, within the Provinces
of Quebec in America.

Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed,
29 April 1830.

344.

29 April 1830.

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BILL

To amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of his
late Majesty King George the Third, for establishing a
Fund towards further defraying the Charges of the
Administration of Justice, and support of the Civil
Government, within the Provinces of Quebec in America.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, ” An Act to establish a Fund towards further defraying the Charges of the administration of Justice and support of the Civil “Government within the Province of Quebec in America,” it is amongst other things enacted, That from and after the fifth day of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, there shall be raised, levied, collected and paid unto his Majesty,, his heirs and -successors, for and upon the respective goods thereinafter mentioned, which shall be imported and brought into any part of the said province, over and above all other duties then payable in the said province by any Act or Acts of Parliament, the several rates and duties following (that is to say) For every gallon of brandy or other spirits of the manufacture of Great Britain, three pence: For every gallon of rum or other spirits which shall be imported or brought from any of His Majesty’s sugar colonies in the West Indies, six pence: For every gallon of rum or other spirits which shall be imported or brought from any other of His Majesty’s colonies or dominions in America; nine pence: For every 4 gallon of foreign brandy or other spirits of foreign manufacture, imported or brought from Great Britain, one shilling: For every gallon of ‘rum or spirits of the produce or manufacture of any of-the, colonies or plantations in America, not in the possession or under the dominion of his Majesty, imported from any other place except Great Britain, one shilling: For every gallon of molasses and syrups, which shall be imported or brought into the said province in ships or vessels belonging to his Majesty’s subjects in Great Britain or Ireland, or to his Majesty’s subjects in the said province, three pence: For every gallon of molasses and syrups which shall be imported or brought into the said province in any other ships or vessels in which the same may be legally imported, six pence: And after those rates for any greater or less quantity of such goods respectively: And it is thereby further enacted, That all the monies that shall arise by the said duties (except the necessary charges of raising, collecting, levying, recovering, answering, paying and accounting for the same) shall be paid by the Collector of his Majesty’s Customs, into the hands of his Majesty’s Receiver General in the said province for the time being, and shall be applied in the first place, in making a more certain and adequate provision towards defraying the expenses of the administration of Justice, and of the support of the Civil Government in the said province; and that the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, or any three or more of them, for the time being, shall be and they are thereby empowered from time to time, by any warrant or warrants under his or their hand or hands, to cause such money to be applied out of the said produce of the said duties towards defraying the said expenses: And it is thereby enacted, That the residue of the said duties shall remain and be reserved in the hands of the said Receiver General, for the future disposition of Parliament :

And whereas the said Province of Quebec bath, since the enactment of the said Act, been divided into the two Provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada:

And whereas it is expedient to make further provision for the appropriation of the duties raised, levied and collected under the said Act;

Be it therefore Enacted, by The KING’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 all the monies that shall arise by the said duties, except the necessary charges of raising, collecting, levying, recovering, answering, paying and accounting for the same, shall be applied in the first place in and towards defraying the several charges mentioned in the Schedule to this Act subjoined, and that the residue of such monies shall be applied in such manner and to such purposes as shall be directed in and by any Act or Acts to be from time to time passed by the respective legislative councils and assemblies of the said Provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada respectively, and assented by His Majesty, His heirs and successors, or on His or their behalf, by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or officer administering the government of the said Provinces respectively.

SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.