V.  Australie.  1410  951.  Australia.

87.  During  a  period  of  ten  years  after  the  establishment  of  the  Commonwealth
and  thereafter  until  the  Parliament  otherwise  provides,  of  the  net  revenue  of  the
Commonwealth  from  duties  of  customs  and  of  excise  not  more  than  one-fourth  shall
be  applied  annually  by  the  Commonwealth  towards  its  expenditure.

The  balance  shall,  in  accordance  with  this  Constitution,  be  paid  to  the  several
States,  or  applied  towards  the  payment  of  interest  on  debts  of  the  several  States
taken  over  by  the  Commonwealth.

88.  Uniform  duties  of  customs  shall  be  imposed  within  two  years  after  the
establishment  of  the  Commonwealth.

89.  Until  the  imposition  of  uniform  duties  of  customs  :—

(I.)  The  Commonwealth  shall  credit  to  each  State  the  revenues  collected
therein  by  the  Commonwealth.

(II.)  The  Commonwealth  shall  debit  to  each  State—

(a.)  the  expenditure  therein  of  the  Commonwealth  incurred  solely  for  the
maintenance  or  continuance,  as  at  the  time  of  transfer,  of  any  department  transferred
  from  the  State  to  the  Commonwealth;

(b.)  the  proportion  of  the  State,  according  to  the  number  of  its  people,  in
the  other  expenditure  of  the  Commonwealth.

(III.)  The  Commonwealth  shall  pay  to  cach  State  month  by  month  the  balance
(if  any)  in  favor  of  the  State.

90.  On  the  imposition  of  uniform  duties  of  customs  the  power  of  the  Parliament
to  impose  duties  of  customs  and  of  excise,  and  to  grant  bounties  on  the  production
or  export  of  goods,  shall  become  exclusive.

On  the  imposition  of  uniform  duties  of  customs  all  laws  of  the  several  States
imposing  duties  of  customs  or  excise,  or  offering  bounties  on  the  production  or
export  of  goods,  shall  cease  to  have  effect;  but  any  grant  of  or  agreement  for  any
such  bounty  lawfully  made  by  or  under  the  authority  of  the  Government  of  any
State  shall  be  taken  to  be  good  if  made  before  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  one
thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-eight  and  not  otherwise.

91.  Nothing  in  this  Constitution  prohibits  a  State  from  granting  any  aid  to
or  bounty  on  mining  for  gold,  silver,  or  other  metals,  nor  from  granting,  with  the
consent  of  both  Houses  of  the  Parliament  of  the  Commonwealth  expressed  by
resolution,  any  aid  to  or  bounty  on  the  production  or  export  of  goods.

92.  On  the  imposition  of  uniform  duties  of  customs,  trade,  commerce,  and
intercourse  among  the  States,  whether  by  means  of  internal  carriage  or  ocean  navigation,
  shall  be  absolutely  free.

But  notwithstanding  anything  in  this  Constitution,  goods  imported  before
the  imposition  of  uniform  duties  of  customs  into  any  State,  or  into  any  colony  which,
whilst  the  goods  remain  therein,  becomes  a  State,  shall,  on  thence  passing  into  another
  State  within  two  years  after  the  imposition  of  such  duties,  be  liable  to  any
duty  chargeable  on  the  importation  of  such  goods  into  the  Commonwealth,  less  any
duty  paid  in  respect  of  the  goods  on  their  importation.