3. The governor may appoint a collector and such other officers as may be required for carrying out the provisions of this act, all of whom shall be subject to the control of the colonial treasurer, who may define the duties of every officer and may require any of them to give such security for good conduct as he may consider necessary. 4. Every person duly employed on any service relating to the customs shall be deemed to be the proper or particular officer named in any act relating to the same for any prescribed duty or service. And everything required to be done at any particular place within any port if done at any other place therein with the sanction or approval of the colonial treasurer or collector shall be valid notwithstanding. 5. Every person appointed to any office, or in any way employed in the customs, shall, when required by the collector, make and subscribe the following declaration before the collector or a justice of the peace: "I A. B. solemnly declare that I will faithfully execute to the best of my ability the office or trust committed to me in the service of Her Majesty's customs and that I will not either demand or receive any fee or reward of any kind either directly or indirectly for doing or abstaining from doing any service act duty matter or thing in the execution of my office or employment on any pretext whatever except my salary and what is or may be allowed me by law or by the colonial treasurer or the collector of customs" And if any officer shall either demand or receive, or consent to receive, any such fee or reward, he shall on proof thereof to the satisfaction of the colonial treasurer be liable to immediate dismissal. 6. No officer of the customs shall be compelled to serve on any jury or in any municipal or other public office. NORFOLK ISLAND. [Published in the New South Wales Government Gazette of April 7, 1897.] IMPOSITION OF IMPORT DUTIES. 1. The import duties mentioned in the schedule to these laws shall be paid in respect of the goods therein mentioned imported or shipped for the purpose of being imported into Norfolk Island for home consumption. INWARD MANIFEST. 2. The master of every ship arriving at Norfolk Island shall immediately make due report of the arrival of such ship to the collector of customs, and shall furnish the collector with a list of all goods contained in his vessel. GOODS NOT REPORTED. 3. Goods not duly reported, or which do not correspond with the description of the same in the list above mentioned, may be detained by the collector and placed in any warehouse until explanation be made to his satisfaction. In the absence of such explanation the goods shall be forfeited and may be sold. ENTRIES. 4. No goods shall be laden on board any ship or unladen from any ship until a warrant be issued by the collector for the lading or unlading of such goods. OUTWARD MANIFEST. 5. Before any ship is cleared outward the master thereof shall deliver to the collector a list in duplicate of the goods on board such ship. The collector shall then return one copy to the master with a certificate of clearance attached. APPOINTMENT OF WAREHOUSES. 6. With the approval of the chief magistrate the collecter may appoint any building or premises to be a warehouse for the purpose of these laws, and may permit the owner of such warehouse to charge storage on goods deposited therein according to the rates levied on goods deposited in the Queen's warehouse at the port of Sydney, New South Wales. BONDING OF GOODS. 7. Dutiable goods may be secured in any warehouse appointed by the collector, and shall not be removed therefrom without his authority. WEIGHING AND MEASURING GOODS. 8. The collector shall have power to weigh or measure any goods, and shall enter particulars of such weight or measurement in a book to be kept for that purpose, and duties shall be paid on the quantities so ascertained. EXAMINATION OF GOODS. 9. The collector of customs, or any person authorized by him in that behalf, may at any time open and examine any packages of goods in a warehouse or on board ship and intended to be landed. POWER TO BOARD A SHIP. 10. The collector of customs, or any person authorized by him in that behalf, may board any ship arriving at Norfolk Island, and stay on board until all the goods have been duly discharged, and shall have access to all parts of the ship. STRENGTH OF SPIRITS. 11. The strength of spirits shall be ascertained by Syke's hydrometer and Fahrenheit's thermometer, the hydrometer to be forwarded half yearly to the custom-house, Sydney, for the purpose of adjustment. DRAWBACK. 12. Drawback of duties will not be allowed on any goods exported from the island. MONTHLY RETURNS. 13. The collector shall forward to the collector of customs, Sydney, a monthly statement showing full particulars of all moneys collected by him. STATISTICS. 14. The collector shall keep a statistical register of all imports and exports, and shall forward a quarterly return of the same to the collector of customs, Sydney, on the forms supplied for that purpose. MANUFACTURE OF SPIRITS, ETC. 15. The manufacture of wine, spirits, beer, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, snuff, and opium is prohibited on the island, except with the permission of the governor and under such regulations as may be made by the chief magistrate with the approval of the governor. COLLECTION OF DUTIES. 16. Duties as imposed by the tariff for Norfolk Island shall be paid at the port of shipment in Australia or New Zealand from which the goods are forwarded, to such persons as the governor may appoint in that behalf, and a dispatch note in which such goods are described shall be forwarded by such persons aforesaid to the collector of customs, Norfolk Island, by the ship conveying the goods. The duty on goods from other ports landed on the island for home consumption shall be levied and collected at the custom-house, Norfolk Island: Provided, That if the master shows to the satisfaction of the collector that the duty on any goods could not have been paid at the port of shipment to a person authorized to give a receipt for the same, the duty may be paid at the custom-house, Norfolk Island. SYDNEY REGULATIONS. 17. The rules and regulations for the collection and protection of the revenue which obtain at the port of Sydney, New South Wales, as set forth in the Customs Handbook of 1896, shall, so far as they may be applied to carry out the provisions of these laws, be observed by the collector of customs at Norfolk Island. SMUGGLING. 18. If any goods liable to the payment of duties are unshipped from any ship or boat, or having been warehoused are clandestinely or illegally removed without the customs duties for the same having been first paid or secured, then in such case all such goods, together with any goods found packed with or used in concealing them, shall be forfeited and may be sold. Any person who unships or is knowingly concerned in the unshipping of any goods liable to forfeiture, or who knowingly carries or conceals, or is concerned in the carrying or concealing of any such goods, shall, on conviction thereof in a summary way before the chief magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20. PENALTIES. 19. Whosoever contravenes any of the provisions of these laws shall, on conviction thereof in a summary way before the chief magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding £2. RECOVERY OF PENALTIES. 20. All penalties imposed under these laws shall be recoverable by distress, levy, and sale of the goods and chattels of the defendant, aud in default of sufficient distress the defendant may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months. COMMENCEMENT OF LAWS. 21. These laws shall have effect on and after the day on which they are notified ia the New South Wales Government Gazette. Given under my hand and seal at Government house, Sydney, this 7th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1897, and in the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign. By His Excellency's command: J. H. YOUNG. NEW ZEALAND. Import tariff. a [The headings of the respective classes in this table and in the table of exemptions are used solely for convenience of classification, and shall not in any way affect the articles specified therein, or be construed to indicate the material of which any such article is made. The word "iron" includes steel or steel and iron combined. Neither steam engine, nor parts of steam engines, nor steam boilers (land or marine) are included in the expression "machines" or "machinery" in either this table or the table of exemptions. The abbreviation "n. o. e." means not otherwise enumerated.] a Printed copy, transmitted by Consul Conally, of Auckland, corrected up to April, 1900, and sterling reduced to United States equivalents in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce. Vinegar exceeding 6.5 per cent of acidity to be treated as acetic acid. Pound 0 0 2 .0405 .do 0 0 4 .0811 ...do 0 .do 0 .0101 . 0101 Ad valorem 20 p. c. 0 0 6 . 1217 do 54 Spirits and strong waters, the strength of which can be ascertained by Sykes's hydrometer. (No allowance beyond 16.5 under proof shall be made for spirits or strong waters of a less hydrometer strength than 16.5 under proof.) 55 Spirits and strong waters, sweetened or mixed, when not exceeding the strength of proof. 56 Spirits and strong waters in cases shall be charged as follows, namely: 2 gallons and under, as 2 gallons; over 2 gallons and not exceeding 3, as 3 gallons; over 3 gallons and not exceeding 4, as 4 gallons; and so on for any greater quantity contained in any case. 58 57 Spirits or strong waters, mixed with ingredients in any 59 60 .do dries. |