119. [Further Grant to New Brunswick.] New Brunswick shall receive by
half-yearly Payments in advance from Canada for the Period of Ten Years
from the Union an additional Allowance of Sixty-three thousand Dollars
per Annum; but as long as the Public Debt of that Province remains under
Seven million Dollars, a Deduction equal to the Interest at Five per
Centum per Annum on such Deficiency shall be made from that Allowance
of Sixty-three thousand Dollars.
120. [Form of Payments.] All Payments to be made under this Act, or
in discharge of Liabilities created under any Act of the Provinces of
Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick respectively, and assumed by
Canada, shall, until the Parliament of Canada otherwise directs, be
made in such Form and Manner as may from Time to Time be ordered by
the Governor General in Council.
121. [Canadian Manufactures, &c.] All Articles of the Growth, Produce,
or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the
Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.
122. [Continuance of customs and excise Laws.] The Customs and Excise
Laws of each Province shall, subject to the Provisions of this Act,
continue in force until altered by the Parliament of Canada.
123. [Exportation and Importation as between Two Provinces.] Where
Customs Duties are, at the Union, leviable on any Goods, Wares, or
Merchandises in any Two Provinces, those Goods, Wares, and Merchandises
may, from and after the Union, be imported from one of those Provinces
into the other of them on Proof of Payment of the Customs Duty leviable
thereon in the Province of Exportation, and on Payment of such further
Amount (if any) of Customs Duty as is leviable thereon in the Province
of Importation.
124. [Lumber Dues in New Brunswick.] Nothing in this Act shall affect
the Right of New Brunswick to levy the Lumber Dues provided in Chapter
Fifteen of Title Three of the Revised Statutes of New Brunswick, or in
any Act amending that Act before or after the Union, and not increasing
the Amount of such Dues; but the Lumber of any of the Provinces other
than New Brunswick shall not be subject to such Dues.
125. [Exemption of Public Lands, &c.] No Lands or Property belonging to
Canada or any Province shall be liable to Taxation.
126. [Provincial Consolidated Revenue Fund.] Such Portions of the Duties
and Revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Canada, Nova
Scotia, and New Brunswick had before the Union Power of Appropriation as
are by this Act reserved to the respective Governments or Legislatures
of the Provinces, and all Duties and Revenues raised by them in
accordance with the special Powers conferred upon them by this Act,
shall in each Province form One Consolidated Revenue Fund to be
appropriated for the Public Service of the Province.
IX.--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
General.
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