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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which lovied.

STAMP DUTIES,—Continued.

33. Servant's Security Bond.-Any Instru ment in writing under seal by which any dômestic or other Servant or Clerk or Compradore shall give seen- rity 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,

31. Settlement.—Any instrument, whether volun-' tary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other thin a bona fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any definito 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 morts gage see. Article 26, i. &

ii.

30 cents for every $100 or part thereof of thu amount or value of the property settled or agreed to be sottled.

Exemption.—Instrument of appointment relating to any property in favour of persons especially named or described us the objects of a puwver of appoint- ment crented by a previous Settlement stamped with ad valorem duty in ve- spect of the same property, or by will, where probate duty has been paid in respect of the sume property as personal estate of the testator.

::. Settlement executed in pursumure of a duly stamper agreement for the same,

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36. Transfer of Shares, «r Stork in any Publie Company to be computed on the market value' of such / shares on the day of stamping, which, if donht arises, the Collector shall decide subject to Section 15 of the Stamp Ordinance,

(i) Truusfer, for a nominal amount, to be approved by the Collector,

Exemption.-Serip Certificate.

|| $1.

10 cents for every $100 or

part thereof,

GENERAL EXEMPTIONS,

Sug Document made or excented by or on behalf of Her Majesty or of any Department of Her Majesty's Service, or whereby any property or interest is trunk- ferred to, or any contract of any kind whatsoreer is made with Her Majesty or ang 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 ux Official Administrator or by a Receiver appointed by my Count, or to any Document rendered necessary by ang Ordinnure or by the order of any Conet; neither does it extend to a sale made for the revavery of an arreur of

Revenue or Rent, or in satisfaction of a Decree or Order of Court, in any of which is the purchaser shall be required to pay the amount of the requixite. Stump in addition to the purchase money,

·Ordinanco 16 of 1886.