# 34743
[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]
[TARIFFS] An Act to continue, until the First Day of January [1824], an Act … relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales ; to authorise the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony ; and to suspend, for Ten Years, the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods of Produce of New South Wales. 30th July 1822.
$50.00 AUD
[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1822. Foolscap folio, 305 x 190 mm, disbound, pp 913-918, [2 blank]; a fine copy.
‘For the purpose of tariff fixing, the colony of New South Wales made up all of the modern “Australia” until 1825. After the first British settlement in Botany Bay in 1788, the second settlement was in Van Diemen’s Land when a penal colony was set up in 1803 and free settlement began soon after. However, the island was administered as a part of New South Wales until it became a separate colony in 1825. Thereafter tariffs in Van Diemen’s Land, like those in New South Wales, were governed by the British Parliament Act of 1822.’ (The First 100 Years of Tariffs in Australia: the Colonies, by P. J. Lloyd, University of Melbourne, p. 6)
