MARITIME PROVINCES. 

 STATUTES. 



NOVA SCOTIA ACT OP DECEMBEE 13, 1854. 

 (18 Viet., Cap. I.) 



An Act for giving effect, on the part of the Province of Nova Scotia, to a cer- 

 tain Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America. Decem- 

 ber 13, 1854. (Passed December 13th, 1854.) 



Whereas it is expedient to provide for giving effect, as regards this 

 Province, to the Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States 

 of America, signed on the 5th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 

 1854 : Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Council, and Assem- 

 bly as follows: 



I. Whenever the Governor of this Province shall, by Proclama- 

 tion, declare that the Treaty has taken effect according to the terms 

 thereof, the articles enumerated in the Schedule to this Act, being 

 the growth and produce of the United States of America, shall be 

 admitted into this Province free of duty, so long as the Treaty shall 

 remain in force, any Law, Act, or Statute to the contrary notwith- 

 standing; except that if at any time The United States shall, under 

 the terms of the Treaty, suspend the operation of the 3rd Article 

 thereof, so far as this Province is affected thereby, then the Governor 

 of this Province may, if he see fit, declare such suspension by Proc- 

 lamation, after which the exemption from duty under this Act 

 shall cease while such suspension shall continue, but the Governor 

 may again, whenever such suspension shall cease, declare the same by 

 Proclamation, from and after which such exemption shall again take 

 effect. 



II. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by any order 

 or orders to be made for that purpose, to do anything further in 

 accordance with the spirit and intention of the Treaty, which shall 

 be found necessary to be done on the part of this Province to give 

 full effect to the Treaty, and any such order shall have the same effect 

 as if the object thereof were expressly provided for by this Act. 



III. When and so soon as the Treaty shall be declared by Procla- 

 mation of the Governor to be in force, and to have taken effect accord- 

 ing to the terms thereof, as provided for by Section I of this Act, 

 the first 18 Sections of the 94th Chapter of the Revised Statutes " Of 

 the Coast Fisheries," together with such provisions of all other Laws, 

 Acts, or Statutes of this Province now in force as are contrary to, or 

 inconsistent with, the terms and spirit of the Treaty, are hereby 

 declared to be suspended, as regards citizens and inhabitants of the 

 United States of America, and vessels, boats, and crafts belonging to 



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