The Canadian Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge

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Copp, Clark Company, 1898
 

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Page 71 - ... composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other...
Page 54 - proof " or " proof spirits," when applied to wines or spirits of any kind, means spirits of a strength equal to that of pure ethyl alcohol compounded with distilled water in such proportions that the resultant mixture shall at a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit have a specific gravity of 0'9198 as compared with that of distilled water at the same temperature ; (/.) The expression "gauge," when applied to metal sheets or plates or to wire, means the thickness as determined by Stubbs' Standard...
Page 286 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other...
Page 57 - Books, not printed or reprinted in Canada, which are included and used as text books in the curriculum of any university, college or school in Canada : books specially imported for the bona fide use of incorporated mechanics' institutes, public libraries, libraries of universities, colleges and schools, or for the library of any incorporated medical, law, literary, scientific or art association or society and being the property of the organized authorities of such library, and not in any case the...
Page 286 - Revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
Page 68 - ... seeds aromatic, and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for dyeing; any of the foregoing which are drugs and not edible and are in a crude state, and not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process, and not specially provided for in this Act.
Page 56 - Bank notes, bonds, bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, drafts and all similar work, unsigned, and cards or other commercial blank forms printed or. lithographed, or printed from steel or copper or other plates, and other printed matter, nes, thirty-five per cent ad valorem.
Page 72 - Goods manufactured or produced wholly or in part by prison labor, or which have been made within or in connection with any prison, jail or penitentiary. Also goods similar in character to those produced in such institutions, when sold or offered for sale by any person, firm or corporation...
Page 72 - Books, printed paper, drawings, paintings, prints, photographs or representations of any kind of a treasonable or seditious, or of an immoral or indecent character.
Page 57 - Ribs of brass, iron or steel, runners, rings, caps, notches, ferrules, mounts and sticks or canes in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for umbrella, parasol or sunshade or walking sticks, when imported by manufacturers of umbrellas, parasols and sunshades for use in their factories in the manufacture of umbrellas, parasols, sunshades or walking sticks.

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