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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

OPIUM:-

LICENCES,-Continued.

For each ball of Opium boiled at the Government Factory,.........

(A rebate of 50% allowed on export).

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....$ 2.25

25.00

Ordinance 1 of 1884.

1.00

For each Licence to sell prepared Opium, per month,. For each Licence to keep a 1st Class Opium Smoking Divan,..... Opium Dross Farm leased for the year ending the last day of} $12,600

February, 1885,

LICENCE FOR BOARDING HOUSE, $25 yearly, ..........

MARRIAGE LICENCE :—

Certificate of Notice, Section 11,......................

Marriage Licence, Section 12,

Special Licence, Section 14,.......

Marriage at the Office of the Registrar General,

LICENCE TO CHINESE UNDERTAKERS, $10 yearly,.......

LICENCE TO MONEY CHANGERS, $5 yearly,

LICENCE TO MARINE STORE DEALERS, $180 yearly,

SPIRIT DISTILLERS, $100 yearly,

FOR MAKING VARNISE, $10 yearly,..............

STAMP DUTIES.

1. Agreement, or any Minute or Memorandum of an Agreement, not being under seal or of the nature of an Obligation for the payment of Money, and not specially charged with Duty under this Schodule, whether the same be only evidence of a Contract or obligatory upon the parties, and Brokers' Notes or any Document having reference to the sale or purchase of any Merchandise, given by any Broker,

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NOTE.-If two or more letters are offered in evidence to prove an Agreement between the parties who shall have written such letters, it will be sufficient if any one of such letters be Stamped as an Agreement.

EXEMPTIONS.

Label, 3lip or Memorandum containing the heads of any Fire or Marine Insurance to be effected.

Memorandum, Letter or Agreement made for or re- lating to the sale of any Goods, Wares or Morchandise, or to the sale of any Shares in any Public Company, not being a Broker's Note or Document given by a Broker. Seamen's Advance Note, or Memorandum or Agree- ment made between the Master and Mariners of any Ship for Wages.

Emigration Contract. Passage Ticket.

1. Bank Notes, or other Obligations for the payment of money, issued by any Banker or Banking Company in the Colony for local Circulation, and payable to bearer on demand .................................................................................................................................

50 cents.

..$ 1.00 5.00 25.00

Section 17 of Ord. 8 of

1879.

Ordinance 14 of 1875.

2.00

A Stamp Duty of two thirds per cent, per annum per $100 of the average valua of such Notes in Cir- culation. To be collected monthly on a Statement thereof to be furnished by onch "Banker or Banking Company to the Collector of Stamp Revenue, at the end of each month,

Ordinance 8 of 1858.

Ordinanco 9 of 1867,

Secs. 7 and 8. Ordinanco 9 of 1875, and Rogulations by Governor in Council of 14th Oct., 1875. Ordinanco 8 of 1869, & Order of the Governor in Council of 14th January, 1870.

Ord. 3 of 1869 & C.S.O.

3652 of 1873.

Ordinancos 12 of 1866,

& 5 of 1868, & Orders of the Governor in Council of 9th June, 26th Oct, and 21st November, 1868.