1 Currants, raisins, and dates.-On the importation of currants, raisins, and dates into this presi dency the duty payable thereon, respectively, shall be an ad valorem duty at the rate prescribed by the customs tariff ordinance 1896, and any other ordinances for the time being in force amending the same. Animals alive, to include only sheep, goats, hogs, poultry, turtle, and all sucking animals. Baggage, personal, of passengers containing apparel and articles of personal use, and all professional apparatus and workman's tools brought by a passenger for his own use. Books, printed, whether bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed matter in all languages. Eggs. Fertilizers of all kinds, natural and artificial. Fish, fresh or on ice. Fruits and vegetables (except potatoes other than sweet potatoes) not being preserved. Furniture in use, the property of, and imported by, persons coming to reside in the presidency. Gold and silver coin and bullion. Ice. Maps and charts. Marble and alabaster, in the rough or squared, worked or carved, for building purposes or monuments. Music, printed. Packages, viz, boxes, barrels, crates and inner packages of all kinds; also pack. ages and coverings (except butts, puncheons, hogsheads, tierces, and trunks) in which goods are actually imported, if usual and proper for the purpose. Pictures and engravings. Plants, shrubs and seeds of all kinds for planting. Public worship, articles specially imported, for, viz, musical instruments of all kinds, lamps, bells and ornaments and wine and all furniture to be used in the celebration of divine worship. Salt. Specimens illustrative of natural history. Steam engines, boilers, and pipes and machines, machinery and apparatus, whether stationary or portable, for agriculture, irrigation, or mining, and all necessary parts and appliances for the erection or repair thereof or the communication of motive power thereto, when not imported for sale.' Surgical instruments imported for the use of the importer. Telegraph wire, telegraphic, telephonic, and electrical apparatus and all appliances of all kinds for communication or illumination thereby. Tombstones, tablets, and railings for graves. All goods imported for or supplied to the Government or the governor or administrator or Her Majesty's army or navy, and military, naval, and militia uniforms, accouterments and appointments imported by officers of Her Majesty's army, navy, Including all and every kind or description of machinery or parts of a machine and all and every kind or description of apparatus to be used in any manner whatsoever for or in or toward the manufacture of sugar and rum, when not imported for sale. or militia for their own use. If any goods of this class on which duty has been paid at the time of importation be subsequently supplied as above mentioned, the amount of duty paid upon the goods so supplied shall be repaid out of the treasury on the warrant of the governor. The following goods shall be admitted free of duty into this presidency, that is to say, all samples not of salable value, of manufactured and other goods, and all articles intended for exhibition only, and not for sale, which the treasurer in his discretion and subject to any rules made as hereinafter mentioned shall allow to be imported into this presidency free of duty. It shall be lawful for the governor or administrator-in-council to make rules for the guidance of the treasurer in the exercise of the powers given to him by this section. Any person who shall sell or dispose of for value any sample or article admitted free of duty under this section without first paying the duty thereon shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding £100. EXPORT TARIFF OF ST. CHRISTOPAER-NEVIS. On every hogshead of sugar not exceeding 42 inches truss, the sum of 4 shillings and 8 pence ($1.13). On every 100 gallons of rum, the sum of 3 shillings and 6 pence (85 cents). On every tierce of sugar not exceeding 30 inches truss, the sum of 3 shillings and 2 pence (77 cents). On every barrel of sugar, the sum of 6 pence and a half penny (13.1 cents). On every ton of sugar otherwise packed, the sum of 4 shillings and 8 pence ($1.13), and at these rates for any greater or less quantity of such sugar and rum, respectively: Provided, That the duties imposed by this section shall not be payable by the statistical tax ordinances 1892 and 1894 on any sugar or rum in respect of which the tax made payable by section 1 of this ordinance have been paid. Within fourteen days after the commencement of this ordinance, every manufacturer within the meaning of the statistical tax ordinance 1892 shall make a return to the treasurer in which he shall declare upon oath, which oath the treasurer is hereby authorized to administer, the quantity of the sugar and rum mentioned in his return made up to the 31st day of March last, under the statistical tax ordinance, which has been exported at the date of the return, the quantity which has been sold for consumption in the presidency, and the quantity which he claims to export free of duty under section 1 of this ordinance. All duties payable under section 1 of this ordinance shall be paid before or at the time of exportation. If any person shall refuse or neglect to pay the duties imposed by this ordinance, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 in addition to the amount of such export duty, and such duty shall be recoverable upon complaint made by the treasurer or some person duly authorized on his behalf before any district magistrate. REPEAL OF STATISTICAL TAX ORDINANCE. The statistical tax ordinance 1892 and the statistical tax ordinance 1894 are hereby repealed: Provided, That such repeal shall not affect any liability incurred or any prosecution pending, or the enforcing of any fine, penalty, forfeiture, or imprisonment incurred or imposed by on any person prior to the commencement of this ordinance. 'Tariff published by the International Customs Tariff Bureau, Brussels. British sterling reduced to United States currency in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce. The word "spirits" means spirits of any description, and includes all liquors mixed with spirits and all mixtures, compounds, and preparations made with spirits, except rum. Goods of all kinds imported or taken out of bond for the use of the governor or for the public use of Her Majesty's land or sea forces. Articles exclusive of oil and other illuminants to be used in the construction, repair, and decoration of churches, and wine for use in public worship. Animals of all kinds (except dogs, oxen, bulls, and cows). Arrowroot. Books, printed, not subject to duty under ordinance 14 of 1874, and not being account books. Music, printed, not subject to duty under ordinance 14 of 1874. Bullion. Bark. Machinery driven by steam, water, electricity, wind, gas, or compressed air. Sugar pans, water pipes, and all machinery to be used in the manufacture of produce, if admitted as such by the collector of customs. Rails and other articles for the formation or repair of tramways or railways on |
