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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.
STAMP DUTIES,—Continued,
33. Servant's Security Bond.-Any Instru- ment in writing under soul by which any domestic or other Servant or Clerk or Compradore shall give secu- rity for the duo discharge 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,
34. Settlement.-Any instrument, whether volun-" tary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other than a bona fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any definito and certain principal sum of money (whether charged or chargeable on lands or other hereditaments or heritablo subjects or not, or to be laid out in the pur- chase of lands or other hereditaments or heritable sub- jects or not) or any definite and certain amount of stock, or any security, is settled or agreed to be settled in any manner whatsoever,
10 cents for every $100 or part thereof up to $10,000. Exceeding $10,000, $10. '
30 conts 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 appoint- ment created by a previous Settlement stamped with ad valorem duty in res- pect 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.
35. Transfer of Shares, or Stock in any Public Company,
Exemption.-Scrip Certificate.
GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.
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10 cents for every $100 or
part thereof.
Any Document made or executed by or on behalf of Her Majesty or of any Department of Her Majesty's Service, or whereby any property or interest is trans- ferred to, or any contract of any kind whatsoever is made with Her Majesty or any person for or on behalf of Her Majesty or any such Department as aforesaid.
But this exemption does not extend to any Document executed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court as Official Administrator or by a Receiver appointed by any Court, or to any Document rendered necessary by any Ordinance or by the order of any Court; neither does it extend to a sale made for the recovery of an arrear of Revenue or Rent, or in satisfaction of a Decree or Order of Court, in any of which cases the purchaser shall be required to pay the amount of the requisite Stamp in addition to the purchase money.
Ordinance 15 of 1884
Emigration Fees.
Application for a Certificate, Schedule E. II, Certificate granted under Schedule E. II, .
..$1.00 1.00
Ordinance 5 of 1874.
TAXES.
Polico Rato at 74 per cont. for Houses in the City of Victoria, and at 5 per cent. for Houses in British Kaulung and the outlying_Villages of the Colony; and the Lighting Rate at 14 por cont., the Fire Brigade Rate at per cent., and the Wator Rate at 2 per cent. per annum, for Houses in the City of Victoria.
The Rates are payable Quarterly in advance botwoon the first and last days of the first month in ench quarter.
These several Ratos are chargeable on, and recoverable from the owners of the Tonements in respect of which the above assessments have been made.
The Police Rate was raised to 8 per cent. in Victoria, including the Peak, and to 6 per cent. at all other places from July 1st.
Fixed annually by the Governor in Council, under Ordinance 12 of 1875.