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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 seal by which any domestic or other Servant or Clerk or Compradoro shall give seen- rity for the due discharge of his duties, er of the duties of other persons to be employed by bin, or for the safe custody of money or property to be entrusted to him, or for the proper carrying on of business to bo 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 proporty or by any assignment,
34. Settlement.-Any instrument, whether volan- tary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other than a bonâ fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any definite and certain principal sum of money (whether charged or chargeable on lands or not, or to be laid out in the purchase of lands 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 duty as a mort- gago sec Article 26, i. &
II.
30 cents for evory $100 or part theroof of the amount or value of the proporty settled or agreed to bo sottled.
Exemption. Instrument of oppointment 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 re- spect 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 excentod in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for the same,
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36. Transfer of Shares, or Stock in any Public Company to be computed on the market valuo" of such shares on the day of stamping, which, if doubt arises, the Collector shall decide subject to Section 15 of the Stamp Ordinance,
} | $1.
10 cents for every $100 or
part thereof.
(i) Transfer for a nominal amount, to be approved } | $1.
by the Collector,
Exemption.-Scrip Certificate.
GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.
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 sule 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 în addition to the purchase money.
Ordinance 16 of 1886.