(A 8)
SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.
LICENCES,—Continued.
LICENCES FOR Billiard Tables and BowliNG ALLETS, $50 yearly,..........
Ordinance 5 of 1845, Order of the Govr, in Council of 8th July, 1875.
OPIUM:-
For each ball of Opium boiled at the Government Factory, (A robato of 50 % allowed on export). For cach Licerce 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
February, 1885,......
$ 2.25
25.00 1.00
of} $12,600.00
From March 1st, 1885, the Opium Farm, including Dross Opium, leased for
$159,000 a year.
Licence for Boarding House, $25 yearly,......................
Marriage Licence:
Ordinacce 1 of 1884.
Section 17 of Ord. 8 of
1879.
Certificate of Notice, Section 11,
1.00
Marriage Liconee, Section 12,
5.00
Ordinance 14 of 1875.
Special Licence, Section 14,.........................
25.00
Marringe at the Office of the Registrar General,
2.00
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 VARNISH, $10 yearly,....
Ordinance 8 of 1858.
Ordinance 9 of 1867,
Secs. 7 and 8.
Ordinance 9 of 1875, and Regulations by Governor in Council of 14th Oct., 1875.
Ordinance 3 of 1869, & Order of the Governor in Council of 14th January, 1870.
Ord. 3 of 1869 & C.S.O.
3652 of 1873.
STAMP DUTIES.
NOTE.-A document containing or relating to several distinct matters is to be sepa- rately and distinctly charged with duty in respect of each of such matters. Any document liable to Stamp duty under more than one article of this Schedule shall be charged under that article which imposes the highest duty.
1. Adjudication as to the amount of stamp duty to be levied on any document,
$1.
50 cents.
2. 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 schedule, whether the same be only evidence of a contract, or obligatory on the parties; or in the case of letters offered in evidence to prove an agreement, any one of such letters,......................
Note.-Agreements as to letting or tenancy are in all cases chargeable as leases.
Sco articles 22 and 24.
Ordinance 15 of 1884.