The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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Page 321
... Duties Act of April 1873 , permitting the colonies to make any trade arrangements amongst themselves that they desired . It was then too late . The delay had been fatal to their desire for freer trade . Divided sovereignty had paralysed ...
... Duties Act of April 1873 , permitting the colonies to make any trade arrangements amongst themselves that they desired . It was then too late . The delay had been fatal to their desire for freer trade . Divided sovereignty had paralysed ...
Page 380
... duties , reducing the older revenue duties on conventional necessaries , and marking them for gradual extinction . For new revenue he relied upon duties on narcotics and stimulants and upon light direct taxes on incomes and the ...
... duties , reducing the older revenue duties on conventional necessaries , and marking them for gradual extinction . For new revenue he relied upon duties on narcotics and stimulants and upon light direct taxes on incomes and the ...
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... duties , but not differential duties . No duty might be imposed , unless it were equally imposed on the like article ... from all other countries or places whatsoever " . It was expected that the colonies would , like the mother country ...
... duties , but not differential duties . No duty might be imposed , unless it were equally imposed on the like article ... from all other countries or places whatsoever " . It was expected that the colonies would , like the mother country ...
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