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.
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