[Inclosure 1.]
Report of committee of privy council of Canada,
approved by his excellency, the governor-general in council on
the 13th April, 1888.
On a memorandum dated 12th April, 1888, from the minister of finance,
recommending that, as various errors have been discovered in the
proclamation issued on the 4th day of April, 1888, which require
amendment, the said proclamation be canceled and another
proclamation issued in lieu thereof, substituting the following list
of articles as being those which may, under the provisions of the
ninth section of the act, chapter S’S of the Revised Statutes,
entitled “An act respecting the duties of customs,” be, from and
after the 4th day of April, 1888, imported into Canada free of
customs duties, namely: Green fruits and edible berries in their
natural condition, viz: Apples, apricots, bananas, cherries, olives,
peaches, pine-apples, plaintains, plums, pomegranates, quinces, and
shaddocks, blackberries, cranberries, gooseberries, raspberries, and
strawberries.
Seeds, viz clover, grass and flower, canary, chia, cotton, jute,
mustard (brown and white), sesame, sugar-beet, sugar-cane seed, and
seeds of fruit and forest trees not edible.
Seeds, aromatic, which are not edible and are in a crude state, and
not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding or by any
other process of manufacture (in addition to those already on the
free list), namely: Anise-star, caraway, cummin seed, and Tonquin
beans.
Trees, shrubs, and plants, viz: Apple, cherry, peach, pear, plum,
quince, and all other fruit trees, and the seedling stock of the
same.
Blackberry, currant, gooseberry, raspberry, and rose bushes, grape
and strawberry vines.
Shade, lawn, and ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants.
Vegetables, viz: Citrous, mangoes, melons, and yams.
The committee concur in the foregoing recommendation, and submit the
same for your excellency’s approval.
[Inclosure 2.]
lansdowne, canada.
[l. s.]
Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland Queen, defender of the faith, &c, &c,
&c.
To all to whom these presents shall come, or whom the same may in any
wise concern, greeting:
a proclamation.
Robert Sedgwick, deputy of the minister of justice,
Canada.
Whereas in and by the Revised Statutes of Canada, chapter
thirty-three, intituled “An act respecting the duties of customs,”
it is amongst other things in effect enacted that any or all of the
following things, that is to say, animals of all kinds, green fruit,
hay, straw, bran, seeds of all kinds, vegetables (including potatoes
and other roots), plants, trees, and shrubs, coal and coke, salt,
hops, wheat, peas and beans, barley, rye, oats, Indian corn,
buckwheat and all other grain, dour of wheat and flour of rye,
Indian meal and oatmeal, and flour or meal of any other grain,
butter, cheese, fish (salted or smoked), lard, tallow, meats (fresh,
salted, or smoked), and lumber may be imported into Canada free of
duty, or at a less rate of duty than is provided by this act, upon
proclamation of the governor in council, which may be issued
whenever it appears to his satisfaction that similar articles from
Canada may be imported into the United States free of duty, or at a
rate of duty not exceeding that payable on the same under such
proclamation when imported into Canada.
And whereas by our certain letters patent under the great seal of
Canada, issued in pursuance of the said act, and bearing date the
fourth day of April instant, and which were duly published in the
Canada Gazette in the issue thereof of
the seventh day of April instant, we did proclaim and declare that
certain articles in our said letters patent specified might be
imported into Canada from the United States free of duty;
And whereas certain errors occurred in our said letters patent and it
is desirable to supersede the same and to substitute therefor the
provisions herein contained;
And whereas it has been shown to the satisfaction of our governor in
council that the articles hereinafter mentioned may now be imported
into the United States from Canada free of duty:
Now know ye that by and with the advice of our privy council for
Canada, we do hereby cancel, annul, and supersede our said herein
before in part recited letters patent, and under and by virtue of
the powers vested in us by the said act, and by and with such advice
as aforesaid, we do, by these presents, proclaim and declare that
the following articles, that is to say:
Green fruits and edible berries, in their natural condition, viz:
Apples, apricots, bananas, cherries, olives, peaches, pineapples,
plantains, plums, pomegranates, quinces, and shaddocks.
Blackberries, cranberries, gooseberries, raspberries, and
strawberries.
Seeds, viz: Clover, grass and flower, canary, chia, cotton, jute,
mustard (brown and white), sesame, sugar-beet, sugar-cane seed, and
seeds of fruit and forest trees not edible.
Seeds aromatic, which are not edible and are in a crude state, and
not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding or by any
other process of manufacture (in addition to those already on the
free list) viz: Anise-star, caraway, cummin seed, and Tonquin
beans.
Trees, shrubs, and plants, viz: Apple, cherry, peach, pear, plum,
quince, and all other fruit trees and the seedling stock of the
same. Blackberry, currant, gooseberry, raspberry, and rose-bushes,
grape, and strawberry vines.
Shade, lawn, and ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants.
Vegetables, viz: Citrons, mangoes, melons, and yams, may hereafter
until otherwise provided be imported into Canada free of duty.
And we do further, by and with the like advice, proclaim and declare
that these, our letters patent, shall have and take effect from and
after the fourth day of April instant.
All of which our loving subjects and all others whom these presents
may concern, are hereby required to take notice and to govern
themselves accordingly.
In testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made
patent and the great seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness,
our right trusty and entirely-beloved cousin, the Most Honorable Sir
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquis of Lansdowne, in the
county of Somerset, Earl of Wycombe, of Chipping Wycombe in the
county of Bucks, Viscount Calne and Calnstone in the county of
Wilts, and Lord Wycombe, Baron of Chipping Wycombe, in the county of
Bucks, in
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the peerage of
Great Britain; Earl of Kerry and Earl of Shelburne, Viscount
Clanmaurice and Fitzmauriee, Baron of Kerry, Lixnaw, and Dunkerron,
in the peerage of Ireland; Knight Grand Cross of Our Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George;
Governor-General of Canada, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
At our Government House in our city of Ottawa, this thirteenth day of
April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-eight, and in the fifty-first year of our reign.
By command.
J. A.
Chapleau,
Secretary of
State.
