Tobacco, duty on (1867) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO

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NO. Dr.

AN ORDINANCE to Reduce the Duty on the Importation

of Tobacco intended for Sheep Wash.

[ 15th July, 1867. ]

NITHEAEAS it is expedient to reduce the duty on Tobaccoconsumption; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Go-intended for sheep wash, and rendered unfit for human

vernor of Western Australia and its dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof; as follows:-

1 THE Ordinance No. 14, of 1866, intituled An Ordinance to No. 14 of 1366, repealed.

reduce the Duty on the importation of unmanufactured Tobacco, is

hereby repealed.

2 FOR and in lieu of the duties of Customs . now chargeable on importation of tobacco, if 3d. the lb. chargeable on the

importation of tobacco, the duty of three pence the pound weight	destroyed for sheep wash.
shall be charged, levied, and paid, upon slick tobacco, provided the same shall be rendered unfit for human consumption, in the manner,

310 VICTORIE, No. 4.

Sheep Tobacco.

and subject to the Regulations, which the Governor from time to

time may direct by a notice published in the Government Gazette.

All tobacco entered or 3 All manufactured and unmanufactured tobacco imported and

warehoused and destroyed,

to pay ad. the lb. entered for payment of duty, or warehoused without payment .of duty, and rendered unfit for human consumption as hereinbefore provided, shall be liable to the reduced duty.

J. S. HAMPTON,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

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Passed the Legislative Council,

this 15th day of July, 1867.

G. E. HAMPTON,

Clerk of the Council.

:Printed by Authority at the Government Press, Fremantle, Western Australia