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for life unless forfeited by peculiar circumstances. Ho 

 may however resign. Tiie members of lUe Assembly are 

 elective, fiut aIthoua;h tbe Provinces are united, they are 

 commonly designated Upper or West Canada, aud Lower 

 or East Canada. 



THE CANADA CORN LAW OF 1843. 



We now come to the principal subject— that of the Canada 

 Corn Law of 1843, which we will divide into 4 parts, 1. 

 The previous state of the Corn Law affecting Canada in the 

 articles of Wheat and Flour. 2. The passing of the Act of 

 1843. 3. The operation of the Act up to the present time, 

 4. The probable futurtj results of the Act. 



PREVIOUS STATE OF THE LAW. 



By the Act of 1815, 55 Geo. 3, c. 2(), all importation of 

 Wheat from any of the British plantations of North America 

 was forbidden except when the average home price was 

 at or above 67s. per quarter, when it might be imported 

 duty free. 



An Act of 1822, 3 Geo. 4. c. (50, permitted the impor- 

 tation of Wheat and Flour from British North America, at 

 the following duties 



Wlicat, per qr. Flour, ptr D«r, 



If under 07 12 Q 3 



at 67s. but under 71 5 17 



at or above 71 1 4 



With an additional duty after the first three months. 



By an Act of 6 Geo. 4, c. 64. (1825), Wheat, the 

 produce of any British possession in America was admitted 

 for one year at 5s. 



It was enacted by the 6th Geo. 4, c, 73, that the follow- 

 ing duties should be paid ou Wheat and Flour, not the 

 growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Kingdom, 

 or of any British Possession in North America, or the 

 West Indies, or within the limits ofthe East India Company's 

 Charter, imported into any British Possession in North 

 America or the West Indies, viz. 8s. per quarter ou Wheat 

 and 5s. per barrel on Flour. 



The Act of 1 Wm. 4, c. 24, repealed (after the 15th 

 April, 1831) so much of the Act G Geo. 4, c. 73, and 

 subsequent Acts as imposed any duty in any of the British 

 Possessions in North America, on the importation of Com 

 or Grain unground ; or on the importation of Wheat Flour 

 into Canada. 



In 1828, 9 Geo. 4. c. 60, an Act was passed by which the 

 duty on Wheat imported from British possessions in 

 North America was fixed at 5s. per quarter, when the price 



