Flour etc Exemption from Duty Act 1840 No 5a (NSW)

No. XXIX.

An Act to exempt from Duty and Wharfage Rates for a certain t ime Flour and Meal and Bread or Biscuit and Whea t and other Grain and Pulse imported into New South Wales. [16th June, 1840.]

eleventh year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the

WH E R E A S by an Act of the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof passed in the

Four th intituled "An Act for confirming certain Rates and Dulles " heretofore levied and collected in the Colony and for continuing the " like Rates and Duties until further provision shall be made" it was amongst other things enacted that all goods except those in the said recited Act particularly mentioned not being the growth produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom imported into the said Colony should be subject to a Rate or Duty of five pounds sterling on every hundred pounds value And whereas by a certain other Act of the said Governor and Council passed in the third year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled " An Act for the " better preservation of the Ports Harbours Havens Roadsteads Channels " Navigable Creeks and Rivers in New South Wales and the better " regulation of Shipping in the same" it was amongst other things enacted that all Flour and Meal and all Grain landed at the King's Wharf Sydney should be subject to certain Wharfage Rates therein- mentioned And whereas it is expedient for a certain period to exempt Flour and Meal and Bread or Biscuit and Wheat and other Grain and Pulse from the said Duty and Wharfage Rates Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof That from and after the passing of this Act all Flour and Meal and Bread or Biscuit and all Wheat and other Grain and Pulse imported into the said Colony on or before the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty shall be exempted from the said Duty and all Flour and Meal and Bread or Biscuit and all Wheat and other Grain and Pulse landed at the Queen's Wharf Sydney within the same period shall also be exempted from the said Wharfage Rates any thing in the said recited Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. ANNO