15 



of British Wheat was under 67s. and 6d. when it was at or 

 above 678. Tlie barrel of Flour of 196 ibs. was charged as 

 38^ gallons of Wheat. 



In 1842, 5 Vic. (c. 14.) an Act was passed alterio;; the 

 Import duties on Foreign Corn. That Act provided that 

 the following duties should be charged on Wheat and 

 Flour the produce of and imported from any Dritish Pos- 

 sessions in North America or elsewhere out of £uropo into 

 the United Kingdom. 



s. 8. s. 



Wheat under 55 5 per quarter 



,, at 55 and under 56 4 

 „ 66 .. 57 3 



„ 57 .. 58 2 



,, „ 58 and upwards 1 



Wheat Meal and Flour for every barrel (I96lbs.) a duty 

 equal in amount to tbat payable on 38| gallons of Wheat. 

 By 5—6 Vict. 1842, c. 49, s. 7 and 8. it is enacted that 

 certain duties shall be paid on certain goods, wares, and 

 merchandise, not being the growth, production, or nian> 

 ufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any British possess- 

 ions in America, or of the Muuritlas, or of any British 

 possession within the limits of the Kast India Company's 

 Charter, or the produce of any British Fishery, imported or 

 brought into any British possession in America, or tbe 

 Mauritius, by sea, or inland carriage, or navigation. 

 Among the articles charged is Wheat Flour 24. per barrel. 

 Corn and Grain ungrouud, Meal or Flour except Wheat 

 Flour are exempted. 



If we look to the state 'of things with regard to 

 Canada, from the year 1831 to 1843, we shall find that 

 during the whole of that period. Wheat might be imported 

 into Canada duty free, not only from the United States 

 but from any other Foreign Country and after being 

 ground into Flour in Canada, be imported into the United 

 Kingdom at a small duty, viz. up to 1842 varying from 6d. 

 to 5s. per quarter, and in 1842, varying from Is. tu 5s. 

 When the United States* Wheat ground into Flour in 

 Canada was paying here the maximum duty of 5s., Wheat 

 coming here direct from the United States would pay a 

 duly of 18s. But it was stated by Lord Stanley in 

 1843, that tbe duty paid on Colonial Wheat and Flour, 

 had, on the average of the last 5 years, been only 2s. Id. per 

 qr., that in 1842, it was 2s, 5d., and that in only one of the 5 

 years it had been so much as 4s. American Wheat unground 

 could not be legally exported from Canada at Canadian duty 

 inasmuch as that duty was only applicable to the produce of 

 Canada* 



