DOMIOTCOT OF CANADA. 

 STATUTES. 



ACT OF SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. 

 (18 Viet., Cap. 1.) 



An Act for giving effect on the part of this Province, to a certain Treaty be- 

 tween Her Majesty and the United States of America. (Assented to 23d 

 September, 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 Fifth day of June, one thousand 

 eight hundred and fifty-four : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's 

 Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province 

 of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the 

 authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United King- 

 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite 

 the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government 

 of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as 

 follows : 



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

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

 terms thereof, the articles enumerated in the schedule hereunto an- 

 nexed, being the growth and produce of the said United States, shall 

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

 shall remain in force; except that if at any time the said United 

 States shall, under the terms of the said Treaty, suspend the opera- 

 tion of the Third Article thereof, so far as this Province is affected 

 thereby, then the Governor of this Province may, if he sees fit, 

 declare such suspension by Proclamation, after which the exemption 

 from duty under this Act shall cease while such suspension sh.all 

 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 which shall be 

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

 effect to the said Treaty, and any such Order shall have the same 

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



III. The Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, 

 intituled, An Act to provide for the free admission into Canada, of 

 certain articles of the growth or production of the United States of 

 America, on certain conditions therein mentioned, is hereby repealed. 



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