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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

LICENCES, &c.,—Continued.

MARINE STORE DEALERS' LICENCES,

.....$180 yearly,

MARRIAGE LICENCES:-

Certificate of Notice, Section 11,.

Marriage Licence, Section 12,

Ordinance 9 of 1875, and Regulations by Governor in Commeil of 14th October, 1875.

Special Licence, Section 14,

Marringe at the Office of the Registrar General,

MONEY CHANGERS' LICENCES,

OPIUM MONOPOLY :-

.$ 1.00 5.00 25,00 .... 2.00

..$5 per annum,

Ordinance 14 of 1875.

Ordinance 21 of 1887,

Section 6, and Ordi- nance 9 of 1867, Sec- tions 7 and 8.

The Opium Farm including Dross Opium, leased from 1st March, 1893, to

28th February, 1998, at $23,833.33 per mensem,

PAWNBROKERS' LICENCES, per annum, $350 plus a monthly sum of 10% of takings

of each shop,

SNOOTING LICENCES :—

Permission to Shoot and take Gaine, a year,

Ordinance 21 of 1891, and Government No- tification 151 of 1895.

Ordinance 3 of 1860, & C.S.O. 2897 of 1894.

Ordinance 15 of 1885,

5,00

Section 5, as amended by 4 of 1892.

SPIRIT LICENCES :-

I-Public House and Adjunct Licences, (Swe. 13).

When the annual valnation of the premises occupied is

under $1,000, a licence fee of $300 a year.

under $4,200,

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over $1,200,

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$360 $480"

II.—Other fees chargeable under this Ordinance.

Distillery Licence, (Sec. 4),

Temporary Spirit Licence, (Sec. 8),

Licence for removed business, (Sec. 18),

Grocer's Licence, (Sec. 28),

Wholesale Licence, (Sec. 28),.

Chinese Spirit Licence, (Sec. 30),

$150 a year. ..........Discretionary,

..$5

Ordinance 21 of 1886.

Ordinance 11 of 1894.

$240 a year. .$240 31 .$150 21

$ 10

...Exempted.

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Government. Notifica-

tion 276 of 1886.

Eating House Licence,* (Sec. 31),.

*Chinese Eating Houses

STAMP DUTIES:-

Note.—A document containing or relating to several distinct matters is to be sepa- rately and distinctly charged with duty in respect of each of such matters. Any document liable to Stamp duty under more than one article of this Schedule shall be charged under that article which imposes the highest duty.

1. Adjudication as to the amount of stamp duty to be levied on any document,... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

2. Agreement, or any memorandum of an agree- ment, under hand only, and not otherwise specially charged with any duty, whether the samo be only evidence of a contract or obligatory on the parties from its being a written instrument,.

$1.

50 cents.

Note.-Agreements as to letting or tenney are in all cases chargeable as leases.

See articles 22 and 24.

·Ordinance 16 of 1886.