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The following articles shall be prohibited to be imported under a penalty of two hundred dollars together with the forfeiture of the parcel or package of goods in which the same may be found, viz:

Books, Printed Papers, Drawings, Paintings, Prints and Photographs, of a treasonable or seditious or of an immoral or indecent character.

Coin, base or counterfeit.

[Assented to 22nd May, 1886.]

it is expedient that there should be one uniform Currency common to the whole Dominion of Canada; and whereas at the International Monetary Conference held at Paris in the year of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, with a view to promote a uniform currency among the nations, a basis for such currency was agreed upon, and it is desirable that the currency of Canada should, as far as possible, be assimilated to that so agreed upon, but it is also desirable that it should be (as it now is, except in the Province of Nova Scotia,) of the same value as the metallic currency of the United States, and it is therefore expedient that no alteration should be made in the currency laws of Canada, until it is known whether the basis agreed upon at the said Conference will or will not be adopted by the United States: If Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. If the Congress of the United States of America shall adopt the basis agreed upon by the said International Monetary Conference, so that the American Half Eagle or five dollar gold coin shall be made of the same same value as the French gold coin of twenty-five francs, of the fineness of nine tenths, and weighing one hundred and twenty-four grains and nine twentieths of a grain troy weight, (or very nearly equivalent in value 2