passengers' baggage, scientific and agricultural instruments, cameras and all materials for photographic purposes, materials used by artists and art students in pursuit of their special work, tropical fruits, printed books and pamphlets, provisions and stores of every description imported or supplied from a bonded warehouse for the use of His Majesty's sea forces, raw hides, specimens of natural history, mineralogy, botany, steam, oil, or gas machines or engines, or any parts thereof, of every description and for whatever use intended, steam. fitters tools, iron, steel and iron rails and sleepers used in the construction of railways or tramways, trucks and all other rolling stock which can only be used on railways or tramways, hydraulic and other power-presses for baling purposes, and sleepers used in the construction of railways and tramways, boilers, iron water tanks, mills and parts of mills, machines for sawing lumber, stills, ron piles, cotton gins, tortoiseshell, tow, tombstones, railings to be used as grave enclosures, sponge, patent steering machines, spars, windlasses, capstans, ice machines and all materials used in the manufacture of ice, wire fencing, turtle and fresh fish not preserved in any way, wax, woods, cedar and yellow. All notes imported by the Bank of Nassau, to be used in the business of such bank and for circulation within the islands or otherwise. Barrels, half-barrels, and packages to be used for packing any article whatever, crate ends, and laths, fibre machines and all parts thereof, gasoline, glass bottles, machinery used in the manufacture of rope, naphtha, salt, staves, heads, and hoops used in the construc tion of barrels, half-barrels, and other packages for the packing of any article whatever, launches or boats propelled by machinery, windmill pumps and any parts thereof, tallow, rosin, caustic soda, potash, palm oil, cocoanut oil, cotton. seed oil, e'ectrical apparatus and appliances, metal roofing, crude petroleum, ǝrude vaseline, crude cosmoline, mineral soap stock, palm-oil soap stock, cottonseed oil soap stock, talc, wheeled invalid chairs, syphons, or syphon bottles for containing aërated waters.-ACT, May 11, 1900. NOTE.-A surcharge of 20% must be added on the duty levied.— ACT of 21st October, 1902.. Arrowroot, tous-les-mois, and all other starches....per 100 lbs. IS. Bread, pilot and navy, and crackers each per 100 lbs. 5S. 6d. Bricks Butter.. per 100 lbs. 7s. 6d. Oleomargarine, margarine, and their compounds 35. 9d. Do., do., in reputed quarts Spirits and cordials (except rum and gin and perfumed per dozen 18s. 9d. 1s. 3d. spirits to be used as perfumery only)... SHIPPING WORLD Gin, for every gallon below or equal to proof by Sykes' Do., for every higher degree of proof, in proportion. Do., for every higher degree of proof in proportion. Do., all other kinds .per gallon Matches, lucifer and other kinds. the gross of 12 doz." boxes each box to contain not exceeding 100 sticks Do., boxes containing any greater or less quantity to be charged in proportion. Meat: Beef, salted or pickled Pork, salted or pickled Bacon and bacon hams Metals, new: TS. Composition nails, bolts, bars, rods, spikes and rivets per 100 lbs. Copper, in sheets, rods, bars, bolts, spikes, nails, and rivets per 100 lbs. per 100 lbs. Mules of the value of £12 10s. and upward cost ...... ..per 100 lbs. ..1 105. Snuff Cigars, cheroots, and cigarettes of all kinds Other, manufactured Other, manufactured, if in outer packages of less than Leaf Leaf, if in outer packages of less than 50 lbs. net weight Wood: the 1,000 Hemlock, birch, beech, white pine, and spruce, All other kinds except in naves, felloes, spokes, and Staves, white ard red oak, whether loose or made up in Oxbows Truss hoops All other articles not in this table particularly enumerated or in the table of exemptions to pay 8 per cent. ad val. FREE LIST. All articles for the use of the Governor of the Island. All articles and things whatsoever imported by the local government for the police or for public institutions. All articles specially imported for the use or decoration or building or repairing any place of worship, and not imported for sale, on the certificate to that effect of the officiating minister. All articles and things of every description imported by any naval officer on full pay in His Majesty's service for his use and accommodation, on the certificate to that effect of the officer so importing. The Governor, purchasing any articles whatsoever, shall be entitled to have the duty refunded to him out of the Public Treasury on the warrant of the Governor in Executive Committee. on the certificate that he is entitled to the refund. Where horses are purchased by the Governor, direct from the importer within six months after the date of import, the duty shall be allowed him on the warrant of the Governor in Executive Committee, on the certificate that he is entitled to the refund. All articles and things of every description, imported as general, military, or naval stores for the use of His Majesty's military and naval forces, and all building materials and supplies, imported or taken out of bond under the authority of His Majesty's Treasury, for military and naval services, under certificate from the head of the department concerned. Chargers imported by, and bona fide the property of field officers, or depart. mental officers of relative rank, or of staff officers or adjutants of regiments, and necessary for the proper discharge of their military duties, under a certificate from the Assistant Adjutant-General. Articles of personal and horse equipment necessary for the performance of military duty, under a certificate from the head of the department concerned. Horses imported for the commissariat department or purchased for the commissariat department within six months of their being imported, under a certificate from the head of the commissariat depart. ment. Asphalt. Belting for machinery. Blubber and heads and offals of fish. Bones and horns. Books bound and unbound, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed matter in all languages, forms, and papers (whether printed or manuscript), maps, charts, school globes, engravings, music, pictures, statues, and other works of art. Bottles of glass or stoneware. Bullion, coin and diamonds. Calves, sucking and foals. Cassaripe. Cattle. Cocoa-nuts. Cotton wool. Eggs. Fresh fish and turtles. Fruit and vegetables, fresh. Fresh meats. wood and charcoal. Fuel Gravel, sand, soil, earth and peat. Green ginger. Gunpowder, gun-cotton dynamite, nitro-glycerine, and all explosives. Hay and straw for forage and other purposes. Hoesticks. Horses brought into the island by equestrian companies, provided the same are taken away by them on leaving, and race horses on every occasion after the first importation thereof, provided no drawback had been claim thereon on exportation. Hulls, boats, masts, spars, apparel, tackle, and furniture of vessels condemned by survey, and on which tonnage duty shall have been paid. Ice. Leeches. Lemon and lime juice. Lime-building and temper-and all other kinds of limestone. Live and dead stock not previously enumerated. Logwood. Machinery for making bricks, tiles, cement, pipes, hard bread and crackers made from imported flour, the reaping or manufacture of sugar. Do. do. of ice. Do. do. of tobacco. Manure, including fertilisers of all kinds, natural and artificial. Metals, old iron and old lead." Oars and sweeps. Packages in which goods are imported, except new trunks, vats, hogsheads, and puncheons. Passengers' baggage containing apparel and articles of personal use, and professional apparatus. Patterns and samples of no intrinsic value. Personal effects of individuals belonging to this island dying abroad. Pozzolana. Rags. Raw hides and skins. Salt. Sawdust. Soda water and mineral water. Specimens illustrative of natural history, seeds, bulbs, and roots, and cuttings of plants or shrubs of all kinds. Spars. Tablets and tombstones and all appurtenances thereto, imported specially for immediate erection and not for sale on certificate of the person for whom imported. Tar, pitch, resin. Turtle and tortoise shell unmanufactured. TARIFF OF BRITISH GUIANA. Area sq. miles 90,500 | Imports............ £1,656,024 Population (1902) £1,678,395 ... 302,172 Exports. This Ordinance may be cited as the Customs Duties Ordinance, 1904. There shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid the several duties set forth in the First Schedule upon all goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated in the said Schedule. There shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid upon all goods, wares, and merchandise NOT ENUMERATED IN THE FIRST SCHEDULE, and not hereinafter exempted from payment of duty, AN AD VALOREM DUTY OF FIFTEEN PER CENT. of the actual cost of such goods, wares, and merchandise. The cost of goods, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of the ad valorem duty payable thereon shall be calculated, if the goods have been purchased by the importer or consignor thereof, on the price charged for the said goods by the vendor thereof as verified by the genuine invoice, and, if procured otherwise than by bona fide purchase, calculated on the actual market value or wholesale price of such goods at the time of exportation to this Colony in the principal markets of the Country whence such goods were imported. [Subject to the verification of the Proper Officer of Customs.] The Customs Duties Ordinance, 1903, is hereby repealed. This Ordinance shall come into force on the publication thereof, and shall continue in force until and inclusive of the Thirty-first day of March, 1905. [And until altered or repealed.] Acid, acetic, containing 66 p.c. and upwards of the real acid.... ..per lb. Acid, acetic, containing less than 66 p.c. and more than 10 p.c. of the real acid per gal. Acid, acetic, vinegar, and substitutes for vinegar containing less than 10 p.c. of the real acid $0.12 0.60 Arrowroot .per gal. 0.10 Bacon and bacon hams. ..per lb. 0.01 Bags and sacks, not to include paper bags. 0.02 Buckets and pails of wood only. Beef, admitted by the Comptroller of Customs as salted or pickled..per barrel of 200 Beer (see Malt). Bulls, Cows, with or without calves, heifers, steers and oxen.. Calcium carbide, in tins or packages, weighing not more than 1 lb.........per lb. per 100 lbs. 2.00 0.02 Do., Tallow. Candles, adamantine, hydraulic press composition, spermaceti wax, or any other than simple tallow. Cars-motor-not seating more than four. Cannabis indica, its extracts and its preparations, including bhang, gange, charas and majoon. For each additional seat above four. 20.00 Cartridges, filled. Cards, playing, per pack of not more than 53 cards in each pack. 0.16 Do., cases capped but not filled. Cement .. Cheese Chains, black or galvanized, not to include dog, parrot or trace chains......per cwt. Chloral hydrate. Chloroform .per lb. 0.24 0.20 Coffee and all imitations of and substitutes for it, chicory, dandelion, and taraxacum 0.01 Cordage, including gasketing.. Confectionery, including jams, jellies and sweetened preserves not otherwise specified per reputed lb. or pint 5.00 1.00 " .per head Dynamite, gunpowder and fireworks: ... Do., and all other explosives other than fireworks, not admitted by the Comp troller of Customs as explosives for blasting purposes.. Fireworks, which in the opinion of the Comptroller of Customs are manufactured with a view to produce a pyrotechnic effect.. Ether, acetic and butyric.... Ethyl, chloride, bromide, and iodide of Do., sulphuric.. Fireworks (see Dynamite). Do., dried.. Fish, tinned or canned. Do., pickled : Mackerel Fruits and vegetables, dried, canned or preserved, other than currants and raisins 0.06 0.04 0.12 ..per gal. 0.65 per lb. 1.20 0.02 ......per 112 lbs. 0.50 · per head Grain, or every description n.o.s. and every kind of beans, peas, and pulse of every description and every kind and whether whole or split Grease, anti-friction, axle grease, and similar compounds.. Gunpowder (see Dynamite). 0.25 Horses, stallions under fourteen and a half hands in height. 0.02 .per 100 lbs. 0.10 per head 100.00 Iron or steel, galvanised, in bars, rods, sheets, or corrugated.. ..per lb. 0.071 Lime, building. Do. Do. Do. Iron or steel, black, in bars, rods, sheets, or plates other than boiler plates.. Lard and lard compounds, containing not more than 2 p.c. of water.. per cwt. 0.50 Do., hydraulic Do., temper Lumber (not including spars), yellow or pitch pine, dressed or undressed, per 1,000 ft. board measure ...per bag 0.02 .per barrel 0.20 ...per puncheon 0.50 Do., dressed on one or both sides, or grooved and tongued, or grooved or tongued per 1,000 ft. board measure 3.00 5,00 |