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for statistical or other purposes, whether such goods are exported, 

 or removed or transported by sea, land or inland navigation. 52 V., 

 c. 14, s. 10. 



299. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make regu- 

 lations for declaring what shall be coasting trade or inland naviga- 

 tion respectively, and how the same shall be regulated in any case 

 or class of cases, and may declare any trade or voyage on the seas, 

 rivers, lakes or waters within or adjacent to Canada, whether to or 

 from any place within or without Canada, or whether such seas. 



rivers, lakes or waters are or are not geographically, or for the 

 675 purpose of other acts or laws, inland waters, to be a coasting 



trade or a coasting voyage within the meaning of this Act 

 and of such regulations, and may also, from time to time, by regula- 

 tion, dispense, on any condition which he sees fit to impose, with 

 such of the requirements of this Act as he deems it inexpedient to 

 enforce with regard to vessels engaged in any such trade or with 

 respect to any case or class of cases. R. S., c. 32, ss. Ill and 245. 



300. The Governor in Council may by regulation relax or dispense 

 with the provisions of this Act touching oaths, affirmations or decla- 

 rations required or authorized by this Act, with regard to goods im- 

 ported by land <>r inland navigation, or with regard to any other 

 class of cases designated in such regulation. 51 V., c. 14, s. 33. 



301. The Governor in Council may, if he deems it expedient, make 

 general regulations in any matter in which he may make a special 

 order; and any such general regulation shall apply to each particular 

 case with the intent and meaning thereof, as fully and effectually, as 

 if the regulation provided specially for each such particular case, 

 and as if the officers, functionaries and persons had been speciallv 

 named therein. R. S., c 32, s. 245. 



302. All general regulations made by the Governor in Council 

 under this Act, shall have effect from and after the day on which 

 the same are published in the Canada Gazette, or from and after such 

 later day as is appointed for the purpose in such regulations, and 

 during such time as is therein expressed, or, if no time is expressed 

 for that purpose, then until the same are revoked or altered. R. S., 

 c. 32, s. 253. 



Powers of the Minister. 



303. The Minister may, from time to time, and as occasion requires, 

 make such regulations as to him seem meet, with respect to travellers 

 passing through a portion of Canada, or coming into it with their 

 carriages, horses or other cattle drawing the same, and personal bag- 

 gage, with the intention of forthwith returning to the United States, 

 or, having gone to the United States from Canada, returning to 

 Canada with such articles, and may direct under what circumstances 

 duty shall or shall not be paid, and on what conditions it shall be 

 remitted or returned. 51 V., c. 14, s. 47. 



304. Regulations respecting the manner in which molasses and 

 syrups shall be sampled and tested for the purpose of determining 

 the classes to which they belong, with reference to the duty chargeable 

 thereon, shall be made by the Minister; and the instruments and 

 appliances necessary for such determination shall be designated by 

 him, and supplied to such officers as are by him charged with the 

 duty of sampling and testing such molasses and syrups. 



