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LIST OF STAMP DUTIES.
6.-Charter Party or any Agreement or Contract for the charter or hiring of any sea going ship or vessel..............
Vessej not exceeding.......
371
200 Tons, $2.00
Exceeding 200x not exceeding, 300 $3,00
300
500
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$100
32
500
750
*
750
**
*
+
$5.00
1,000
79
$6.00
Every 100 Tons over 1,000 Tons, $0.50 Copy Charter under... 200 above... 200
$1.00 each,
$2.00
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Duty to be calculated on Registered Tonnage.
7.—Transfer of Shares or Stock in any Public Com- 50 cents for every $500 or fraction of pany, scrip Certificate to be exempt....
8. Power of Attorney..
9.-Note or Protest by any Commander or Master
of a vessel
10. Any Notarial Act whatsoever not otherwise charged in this Schedule......
$500. $2. 25 cents
$1.
11.-Receipt or discharge given for the payment of! Money, or in acquittal of a debt paid in Money or other- 13 cents. wise, when the sum received, discharged, or acquitted exceeds $10.......
EXEMPTIONS.
Letter sent by Post acknowledging the aurival of a Currency, or Promissory Note, Bill of Exchange, or any security for Money
Receipt or Discharge written upon or contained in any Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note. Deed or other instru- |ment charged with duty under this Schedule and duly! Stamped, and Receipts for pay and allowances of persons in the service of the government, whether Civil, Naval orļ Military.
12.—Probates and Letters of Administration with lor without the Will annexed, (Administration Bonds
exempt)....
13.-Conveyance. Assignment or instrument of any kind or description whatsoever not specially charged |with duty under this Schedule, executed for the transfer for valuable consideration of any property, moveable or jimmoveable, or of any right, title, claim, or interest in,
to, or upon the same...
Deed or other instrument of gift, or of exchange or settlement where no money consideration or a merely nominal money consideration passes....
EXEMPTION,
Transfer by mere Endorsement of a duly Stamped Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note or other negotiablej instrument, or of a Bill of Lading, and transfer by Assign ment of a Policy of Insurance.
14.
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Mortgage................................
The same ad valorem Daly as on a Conveyance, to be calculated upon the value of the Estate and effects for or in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administra- tion shall be granted, exclusive of what the deceased shall have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other person or persons, and not beneficially.
25 cents for every $100 or part of $100 of the consideration Money or amount scenred up to $1,000, and $2 for every $1,000 or part of $1,000 after the first $1,000,
$25.
$1 on first $1,000 or part of $1,000, and 50 cents on every other $1,000 or part thereof.
$25.
Where in a Mortgage the sum secured is unlimited... 15.—Re-assignment of any Mortgaged Property...... 25 cents on every $5,000 or part of
I 16.-Letter or other instrument of Hypothecation,
accompanying deposit of Document of title to any $1.
property.
$5,000.
17.-Duplicate or counterpart of any deed, inst) The same duty as the Original when ment or writing of any description whatever chargeable with duty under this Ordinance.....
$1.
such Duty does not exceed $1.
If the duty chargeable on the original exceeds $1
but does not exceed $10.....
If the duty chargeable on the original exceeds $10,
$2.
but does not exceed $20................
If the duty on the original exceeds $20....
$3.
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