1278 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



POWERS OF THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL. 



251. The Governor in Council may from time to time and in the 

 manner hereinafter provided, in addition to the other purposes and 

 matters in this Act mentioned, make regulations for or relating to the 

 following purposes and matters : 



(a.) For regulating and declaring what allowances shall be made 

 for tare on the gross weight of goods. 



(6.) For declaring what shall be coasting trade, and how the same 

 shall be regulated in any case or class of cases, and for 

 relaxing or dispensing with any of the requirements of this 

 Act as to vessels engaged in such trade, on any conditions 

 which he sees fit to impose. 



(<?.) For appointing places and ports of entry, and warehousing 

 and bonding ports, and respecting the personal baggage or 

 travellers coming into this Colony or returning thereto, 

 or passing through any portion thereof. 



(d.) For regulating the importation of spirits, wine and malt 

 liquors, or other goods which require to be weighed, gauged 

 or tested for strength or quantity, and limiting or prescrib- 

 ing the kind and capacity of packages in which the same 

 may be imported, and the conveyances by which, and the 

 ports or places at which the same may be landed and 

 entered. 



(e.) For authorizing the appointment of warehouses and regula- 

 tions, the security which shall be taken from warehouse 

 keepers, the forms and conditions subject to which goods 

 are to be warehoused, the mode of keeping goods in ware- 

 house, and of removing such goods therefrom, and the 

 amount of warehouse rent or licence fees. 



(/.) For extending either by general regulation or by special 

 order, the time for clearing warehoused goods, and for the 

 transport of goods in bond from one port or place to 

 another. 



(g.) For regulating the form in which transfers of goods in ware- 

 house or bond from one person to another shall be entered. 



(A.) For exempting goods from duty as being the growth, produce 

 or manufacture of the Dominion of Canada, if such exemp- 

 tion is provided for by any Act relating to Customs and 

 for regulating the mode of proving such exemption. 



(i.) For transferring to the list of goods which may be imported 

 into this Colony free of duty, any or all articles (whether 

 natural products or manufactures) used as materials in 

 Newfoundland manufactures; and any such materials 

 transferred to the free list by such Order in Council shall 

 be free of duty of Customs for the time therein appointed 

 for that purpose. 



(;'.) For granting a drawback of the whole or part of the duty paid 

 on articles which have been used in Newfoundland manu- 

 factures, or for granting a certain specific sum in lieu 

 of any such drawback. 



For prescribing the manner in which the proceeds of penalties 

 and forfeitures shall be distributed. 



