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No. 16 of 1901.
STAMPS.
1. Adjudication, as to the amount of stamp duty to be levied on any document.
$1.
2. Affidavits, statutory declarations or declarations in writings on oath or affirmation made before any person authorised by law to take the same or to administer an oath or affirmation and not otherwise chargeable with duty,
$3.
Exemption: This Article shall not apply to any such affidavit or declaration made for the immediate purpose of being filed or used in the Supreme Court or before any Judge or officer of such Court or to any affidavit or declaration made for the sole purpose of enabling any person to receive any pension or charitable allowance.
3. Affirmation
$1.
4. Agreement, or any memorandum of an agreement, under hand only, and not otherwise specially charged with any duty, whether the same be only evidence of a contract or obligatory on the parties from its being a written instrument.
$3.
Note.--Agreements as to letting or tenancy are in all cases chargeable as leases. See articles 32 and 34. Agreement or contract accompanied with the deposit of title deeds to any immovable property or for securing the payment or repayment of any money or stock.
see Mortgage, 38.
Exemptions.-Label, slip, or memorandum containing the heads of any insurance to be effected by means of a duly stamped policy or risk note.
Memorandum, letter, or agreement made for or relating to the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise, or to the sale of any shares in any public company, not being a broker's note or document given by a broker.
Seaman's advance note, or memorandum, or agreement made between the master and mariners of any ship for wages.
Emigration contract.
Passage ticket.
5. Arbitration Award,.....
Where the amount claimed or involved does not exceed $500, $1. Where the amount claimed or involved exceeds $500 but does not exceed $1,000, $2. And for every additional $1,000, or part of $1,000 over the first $1,000, $1.
Where no money claim is made or the amount involved cannot be ascertained, $6.