Government And General Order.

It being represented that the pine and other timber occasionally imported from New Zealand do not sell here at the high prices they were supposed to bring when certain duties were laid upon them, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to order and direct, that instead of 1s. per solid foot being demanded for duty as affixed by the Government Order of the 26th June, 1813, on timber in log and plank from New Zealand, that from and after the present date the sum of 6d. per solid foot only shall be charged as duty on all timber, whether log or plank, that may be imported from New Zealand; the duty on spars to continue as established by the said Order of the 26th June, 1813.