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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD APRIL, 1886.
(iv.) Reassignment, release, dis- charge, surrender, resurrender, warrant to vacate, or renunciation of any such security as aforesaid, or of the benefit thereof, or of the money thereby secured,...
(v.) Mortgage executed in pur suance of a duly stamped agreement for the same, on production of such agreement.
2 cents for every $100 or part
thereof.
$2.
Note.--An entry to the above effect is to be made beneath the
Stamp and signed by the Collector.
27. Any Notarial Act whatso- ever not otherwise charged with duty in this schedule,
28. Note of Protest by any Commander or Master of a vessel, or with regard to any Promissory Note or Bill of Exchange,.........
29. Policy or Risk Note of Ma- rine, Fire, Life or other Insurance, for each copy, and every renewal, when the amount insured,
Does not exceed
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$500,..
$1.000,
Exceeds $1,000,
30. Power of Attorney, ......
31. Probate, or Letters of Ad-】 ministration, with or without the Will annexed, to be calculated upon the value of the Estate and Effects for or in respect of which such Pro- bate or Letters of Administration shall be granted, exclusive of what the deceased shall have been pos- sessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other person or persons and not beneficially,
$2.
50 cents.
5 cents.
10
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$3.
$2 for every $100 or part
thereof.
Exemption. Administration Bond. 32. Promissory Note of any kind whatsoever except a Bank Note,
Reassignment,
33. Receipt or Discharge given for the payment of money, or in acquittal of a debt paid in money or otherwise, when the sum received. discharged or acquitted exceeds $10,
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Estate under $250.
cents for every $100 or part thereof.
See Mortgage, 26.
3 cents.
Exemptions.-Letter acknowledging the arrival of a Our- rency or Promissory Note, Bill of Exchange, or any security for money, Receipt or Debit Note for the Premium on a duly stamped Policy of Insurance. Receipt given by any officer or soldier of Her Majesty's forces stationed in the Colony for money paid out of Imperial Revenue.
34. Servant's Security Bond. Any Instrument in writing under seal by which any domestic or other Servant or. Clerk or Compradore shall give security for the due dis- charge of his duties, or of the duties of other persons to be employed by him, or for the safe custody of money or property to be entrusted to him, or for the proper carrying on of business to be conducted by him, or for the discharge of his responsibilities arising from such business, whether such security shall be given by the binding of other persons, or by the deposit of money or valuable property or by deposit of the Title Deeds to any property or by any assignment, ...)
35. Settlement. Any instru- ment, whether voluntary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other than a bona fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any definite and certain principal sum of money (whether charged or chargeable on lands or not, or to be laid out in the purchase of lands or not) or any definite and certain amount of stock, or any security, is settled or agreed to be settled in any manner whatsoever,
The same duty as a Mort- gage, see Article 26, i. & ii.
50 cents for every $100 or part thereof of the amount or value of the property settled or agreed to be settled.
Exemption. Instrument of appointment relating to any property in favour of persons especially named or described as the objects of a power of appointment created by a previous Settlement stamped with ad valorem duty in respect of the same property, or by will, where probate duty has been paid in respect of the same property as personal estate of the testator.