Excerpt from Correspondence and Negotiations Connected With the Affairs of Nova Scotia: Laid Before Parliament by Command of His Excellency the Governor General One or other of the above methods would appear fair, but in either case some allowance should be made, on the one hand for the higher rate of duty which N ova Scotia will now have to pay, {and on the other for the goods which, either under the new tarifi' or as being the manufacture of Canada and New Brunswick, will now be free, but formerly paid duty. It must also be observed that in speaking of the debt of Nova Scotia and its exeem over the stipulated I have taken it, as Mr. Mclelan also has done, as in Nova Scotian currency, but it is evident that to put Nova Scotia on a par with the rest of Canada it should be converted into Canada Currency. Upon this assumption the would be in Nova Scotia currency, and the estimated excess of debt not but $1 Upon the same principle the debt of N ova Scotia, if based upon the revenues derived from Customs and Excise, which is perhaps the fairest test, would be as compared with for Ontario and Quebec. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.