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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.

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

89.  Payment to States before uniform duties.

  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 each State month by month the balance (if any) in favour of the State.

90.  Exclusive power over customs, excise, and bounties.

  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 of 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.  Exceptions as to bounties.

  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.  Trade within the Commonwealth to be free.

  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