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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.
STAMP DUTIES,—Continued.
46. Servant's Security Bond.-Any instru- ment in writing under seal by which any domestic or other Servant or Clerk or Compradore shall give security for the due 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,
47. Settlement.-Auy instrument, whether volun- ] tary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other than a bona 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 lails or not) or any definite and certain amount of stock, or any security, is settled or agreed to be settled in any mannor whatsoever,
The same duty as a Mort- gage, see Article 38 (i.) & (ii.).
30 cents for every $100 or part thereof of the amount or value of the property settled or agreed to be settlel.
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 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.
48. Settlement executed in pursuance of a duly
stamped agreement for the same,
49. Statutory Declaration,
50. Surrender of a Lease,
Public
51. Transfer of Shares, or Stock in 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 10 of this Onliuance,
(ii) Transfer for a nomiua! amount, 10 be approved by the Collector,
Exemption. Scrip Certificate.
GENERAL EXEMPTIONS,
$1.
See 2.
The same amount of duty as is payable on the Lease itself.
10 cents for every $100 or Ordinance 22 of 1901.
part thereof.
$1.
Any Document made or executed by or on behalf of His Majesty or of any Department of His Majesty's Service, or whereby any property or interest is trans- ferred to or any contract of any kind whatsoever is made with His Majesty or any person for or on behalf of His 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 Hent, 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 purehuse money,
SECOND SCHEDULE.—(See Section 8.)
Showing documents which may be stamped, without payment of penalty, at any time within seven days from the date of execution.
All the documents which are included in Articles 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 97, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48 and 50 of the First Schedule to this Ordinance, with the following exception namely:—Leakes or Agreements for a Lease for a period of one year or under.
Emigration Fees under The Chinese Emigration
Consolidation Ordinance, 1889—
Application for a Certificate, Cortificate,
$1.