and an annual Grant in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to
Eighty Cents per Head of the Population as ascertained by the Census
of One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Case of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, by each subsequent Decennial Census until
the Population of each of those Two Provinces amounts to Four hundred
thousand Souls, at which Rate such Grant shall thereafter remain. Such
Grants shall be in full Settlement of all future Demands on Canada,
and shall be paid half-yearly in advance to each Province; but the
Government of Canada shall deduct from such Grants, as against any
Province, all Sums chargeable as Interest on the Public Debt of that
Province in excess of the several Amounts stipulated in this Act.
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 the
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