Customs amendment (1847) (WA)

WESTERN ATJSTRA LTA.

ANNO DECIMO

VICTORIA. REGIME.

No. XI.

An Ordinance to Exempt certain Goods

from Duties.

WHEREAS it is expedient that goods intended for the use of Goods form! ofthe (40 7.■

the Governor, personal baggage of Immigrants, and articles egm a:er' Iem asrigNr aanytas; bar trfi

of Naval and Military Uniform, should be exempted from the payment Miliet'ary Unifor ms, and

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of duties, and also that a power should be vested in the Governor to ex- p permission exempt

empt from duty any goods which under special circumstances should from ditties'

be deemed to merit such exemption ;—Be it therefore enacted, by

His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Depen-

10th Viet. No. 11. 1847.

dencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Coun- cil thereof, that all goods imported and purchased in bond by and for the use of the Governor, and all the personal baggage of parties arriving in the colony, all articles of Naval and Military Uniform and Appointments imported by Officers, stationed in this colony, for their own use, and all such goods as the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall from time to time specially authorise in writing, shall be exempted from any duties which now are or shall hereafter be imposed by any Ordinance in this colony.

FREDERICK CHIDLEY IRWIN,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Council 1 12th August, 1847. 3

WALKINSHAW COWAN,

Clerk of the Councils.

Printed by authority of the Government., by E. Stirling, Perth.