23 



Americans on the grain many months before it could come 

 here, and form a charge upon it in the process of grinding 

 and during the time of transit. On the other side it was 

 said that the 3s. duty would make the corn dearer to the 

 Canadian consumer; and that to increase the expence of 

 living in the country would check emigration. It was 

 suggested that the Canadian Legislature might, at any 

 time, repeal the Ss. duty, but that was met by the fact 

 that such a measure could not ho adopted without the 

 consent of the Queen. The discussions terminated in the 

 passing of tliu Bill, which received the Royal Assent oo 

 the 12th July. IM'3. 



The following is a copy of the Act 



An Act for reducing the Duty on Wheat and Wheat Flour, the 



produce of the Province of Canada, imported thence into the 



United Kingdom.— V2th July, 1843. 



•' Wliereai on the I'iih Jay of October, 1812, an Act was passed by the 

 " LL'}.'i>laUve Council and Lngislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 

 " and reserved by ilic Governor tieneral for the si^jnification of Her Majesty's 

 " pleasure, imposing a Duly of 3s. sterling money of Great Ihitain, on each 

 " imperiil qnurier of Wheat imported into Cii/iuiia, except from the United 

 '• Kinjjdom d;- any of Her Majesty's possessions, and beinj; the growth and 

 " produce thereof. And wiiereas it is recited iii the said Act that it was passed 

 " in the confident belief and expectation, that upon the imposition of a Duty 

 " upon Forei^M) Wheat imported into the Province, Her Majesty would be 

 •* graciously pleased to recommend to parliament the removal or reduccion of 

 " the Duties on Wheat and Wheat Flour imported into the said United 

 " Kinj;domfrom Caituda. And whereas in consideration of the Duty so imposed 

 '« by the said Act of the Legislature of Canada, it is expedient that if Her 

 " Majesty shnll be pleased to give Hei> sanction to the said Act, the Duties 

 " imposed by an Act (5 anil 6 Vic. c. 11.) ma:le and passed in the last 

 " Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to amend tUe Laws for the impur- 

 " tatiun of Corn, upon Wheat and Wheat Flour, the produce of and imported 

 •■ fiom the Province of Canada, entered for home consumption in the United 

 ** Kingdom, should be reduced as hereinafter mentioned," lie it therefore 

 enacted by the Queen's most Excellent M.ijt'sty, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Lords s[)irilual and temporal and Commons, in this present 

 Parliamentassembled, and by t!ie authority of the same. That from and after 

 the 10th day of October, 1813, and thenceforth during the continuance of the 

 Duty so imposed by the said Act of the Legislature of Canada as aforesaid, 

 there shall be levied and paid upon all Wheat and Wheat Flour, the produce 

 of the said Province of Canada which shall be imported thence into the United 

 Kingdom after the said 10th day of October, and shall be entered for home con- 

 sumption (the same having been shipped and imported with such declarationi 

 and certificates as are required in respect thereof, in and by the said Act passed 

 in the last Session of Parliament) in lieu of the Duties charged thereon by the 

 said Act of Parliament, the Duties following, (namely) 



For every quarter of such Wheat Is. and so in proportion for a less 

 quantity. For every barrel being 196 pound;! of such Wheal Flour, a Duty 

 tqudl in amount to the Duty which would hereby be payable upon 38 gallons 



