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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 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, whother 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 valuablo consideration, other than a bona fide pecuuinry 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- gage see Article 26, i &

14.

30 cents 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.

85. Settlement executed 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 13 of the Stamp Ordinance,

(ii.) Transfer for a nominal amount, to be approved by the Collector,

Exemption.-Scrip Certificate.

GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.

$1.

10 cents for every $100 or

[hirt 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 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 in addition to the purchase money,

Ordinance 16 of 1886.

For Houses in the City of Victoria, For Houses in the Hill District, For Houses in any other place,

TAXES.

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For Piers,

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13 per cent por annum

Fixed by Ordinance 15

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The Rates are payable quarterly in advance within the first month of cach quarter. These Rates are chargeable on, and recoverable from the owners of the Tenements in respect of which the above assessments have been made.

of 1888.