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Resolved, That on all goods, wares, and merchandise not enumerated above, or in the table of duties of Customs annexed to " The Customs Duties Consolidation Act, 1882," and not included in the list of articles exempted from duty by subsequent resolution, there shall be charged a duty of ten per cent, ad valorem. Resolved, That, in the event of any of the duties hereby imposed not being confirmed, or of reductions being made in the rates specified above, the amounts levied, collected, and paid in excess of the duties, as may be imposed by the Customs Act based on these resolutions, shall be refunded to the persons who paid the same. Resolved, That the under-mentioned articles shall be exempt from duty on the importation thereof into the colony : —

Acid, boracic, carbolic, fluoric, muriatic, oxalic, and salicylic. Acids, for medicinal, chemical, or manufacturing purposes, not otherwise enumerated. Albo carbon. Ambergris. Anatomical preparations. Aniline dyes, crystal. Animal carbon. Animals, living. Annato and annato seed. Argol or crude tartar. Asbestos. Asphalte. Asphixiator for rabbit-killing. Axe and hatchet handles. Bamboos, unmanufactured. Bank notes. Barilla. Bass. Beche-de-mer. Belting, cotton, flax, and indiarubber. Bismuth. Bisulphide of carbon. Blacksmiths' bellows. Blocks, iron. Blue, ultramarine. Boats. Boiler, composition (rocket). Bones, crude, ground, or burnt. Books, printed, magazines, and newspapers. Bookbinders' thick vellum. Bootmakers' materials, viz., cashmere, felt, flushing, lasting, webbing, and royal cord for slippers. Boxes, cardboard, materials for, viz., gold and silver paper, plain and embossed; gelatine and coloured papers known as box papers. Brass rods and tubes. Brazil pebbles and pebbles for spectacles, rough. Brushmakers' corrugated brace braids. Brown-windsor and honey composition for soap manufacture. Bunting, suitable only for ships' flags. Candlenuts and candlenut kernels. Candle-wick. Carriage- and cart-makers' materials, viz., brass carriage-hinges, lamps, lining nails, and transfer ornaments, and American cloth in drill, duck, and moleskin, and in muslin when japanned on both sides.

Caoutchouc, crude. Casks, empty. Casts, plaster, for drawing models for schools. Caulking irons. Chains, iron. „ twisted, coil. Chloride of lime. Chronometers, ships', not being chronometer watches. , Church clocks, altar cloths, and furniture specially imported for places of public worship. Cocoa-butter. Cocoanuts. Cochineal. Composition, anti-fouling, for ships' bottoms. Copper, Brass or Bronze, in ingots, bars, tubes, or sheets. Copper rivets and washers „ sulphate of. Copra. Coral. Cork, unmanufactured. Cotterpins. Cotton, raw. Creosote, crude. Deck-sceapees and scrubs. Dextrine. Diamonds, glaziers'. Disinfecting fluid. Diving dress, apparatus, and fittings. Draining tools. Dye-stuffs and dyeing and tanning materials, crude. Electeic-light, apparatus & machinery. „ incandescent lamps. Emery cloth. Fibee, cocoanut. Files, blacksmiths'. Fire-brigade helmets, belts, axes, lamps, tools, hydrants, hose-nozels and couplings, and ladders. Fire-destroying liquid. Flax, unmanufactured. Flock. Fruits, green. Fullers' earth in bulk. Gaeden tools. Gas engines. Glassmakers' moulds. Glass globes for ships' masthead lights. Gold leaf.

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