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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 soal by which any domestic or other Servant or Clerk or Compradoro shall give seen- rity for the due dischargo of his duties, or of the duties of other persons to be employed by him, or for the enfo custorly of money or property to ho entrusted to him, or for the proper carrying on of business to be conducted by him, or for the disclurge of his responsibilities arising from such business, whether such security shall be given by the binding of other persons, or by the doposit of money or valuable proporty or by deposit of the Titlo Doeds to any proporty or by any assignmont,
34. Settlement.-Any instrument, whether volun- fary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other than a bona fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any definite and curtain principal sum of money (whether charged or chargeable on lands or not, or to be laid out in the purchase of landy 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 ditty as a Mori- gugo see Article 26, i & ii.
30 conts for overy $100 or part theroof of the amount or value of the property sottled 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 rex- 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. Settlement excented in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for the same,.......
36. Transfer of Shares, or Stock in any Public Company to be computed on the market value of such shares on the day of stamping, which, if doubt arises, the Collector shall decide subject to Section 15 of the Stamp Ordinance,....
(ii,) Transfer for a nominal amount, to be approved by the Collector,
Exemption. Scrip Certificate.
GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.
31.
10 cents for evory $100 or
part thereof.
$1.
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 whatsnezer 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 Deerce 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.
·Ordinanco 16 of 1886.
TAXES.
Police Rate at 83 per cent. for Houses in the City of Victoria, including the Penk and at 6 per cont. for Houses in British Kauling and the outlying Villages of the Colony from 1st January to 30th June, and raised to 7 per cent, from 1st July to 31st December; and the Lighting Rate at 14 por cent., the Firo Brigade Rate at 4 por cent., and the Water Rate at 2 per cent, per annum, for Houses in the City of Victoria. The Rates are payable Quarterly in advance between the first and Inst days of the first month in each quarter.
These several Ratos are chargeable on, and recoverable from the owners of tho Tenements in respect of which the above assessments linve been mndu.
Fixed by Ordinance 21
of 1885.