BENNETT, Acting Clerk of Council to I assent in the name of Her Majesty. R. W. HARLEY , Colonel, Administrator-in-Chief . Cape Coast Castle , April 18, 1873, April 17, 1873

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[1873.

No. 1.]

In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Robert William Harley, C. B., administrator-in-chief of the West Africa Settlements

[17th April, 1873.]

At a legislative council held in the Palaver Hall, Cape Coast Castle, on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

AN ORDINANCE to make further provision for the service of the settlement during the current year

Whereas it has become necessary to make further provision for carrying on the service of this settlement during the current year, and with that object to alter temporarily the duties of customs upon the several articles herein mentioned,

Be it therefore enacted by the administrator-in-chief and legislative council of the settlement on the Gold Coast, as follows:

I. From and after the passing of this ordinance the duties specified in the Schedule A hereof, shall be due and payable on the import or removal from bond of the articles therein mentioned, into any part of Her Majesty’s possessions on the Gold Coast:

Provided that no duties shall be payable on wines or spirituous liquors, or tobacco removed from bond, for transshipment beyond the settlement.

The articles specified in Schedule B hereof shall be exempted from duty.

II. The value of goods on which ad-valorem duty shall be charged shall be ascertained from the invoice-prices of the goods at their ports of shipment:

Provided that if it should appear to the collector, or sub-collector, or other custom-officer, on sufficient information, that the invoice-price is not truly stated, or that any false or fraudulent statement has been made, as to any goods imported with intent to defraud, such goods shall be forfeited.

III. All goods which may be forfeited in terms of the last preceding section shall be sold under directions from the administrator, and the money arising from the sale shall be paid, one moiety into the colonial treasury, and the other moiety to the informer giving information which shall have led to any such forfeitures.

IV. It shall be lawful for the administrator to remit the whole or part of the duties chargeable on any gunpowder or fire-arms imported by any native king or chief of the protectorate, or which he is satisfied has been sold to any such king or chief for defensive purposes.

V. This ordinance shall cease and determine on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, whereupon the “revised-tariff ordinance, 1872” shall eo ipso revive and come into full operation.

VI. This ordinance may be cited as the “customs-tariff ordinance, 1873.”