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Canada Taxes Tools

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Windsor, Ont., Nov. 24. - A party of fourteen Poles and on e American crossed the river Tuesday morning bringing with them a full set of lumbermen's tools. They stated that they were going to Ruscombe, a small station on the Michigan Central railway, near Tilbury, to work in a lumber camp for the winter. The customs office levied 35 per cent. on their tools. This is the first time that tolls have been charged on second-hand tools coming lnto Canada temporarily, and it is believed to have been done on advice from Ottawa.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News