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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

STAMP DUTIES,—Continued.

42. Power of Attorney, or Revocation of,..................

43. Probate, or Letters of Administration, with or without the will annexed, to be calculated upon the value of the Estate and Effects for or in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administration shall be granted, exclusive of what the deceased shall have been possossed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any person or persons and not bencficially :-

(a.) Where the estate and effects are nhove the value of two hundred and fifty dollars and not above the value- of one thousand dollars,

(b.) Where the estate and effects are above the value of one thousand dollars and not above the valuo of ten thousand dollars,

(c) Where the estate and effects are above the value of ten thousand dollars,

$4.

See also 36.

At the rate of one dollar for every one hundred dollars and for every fractional part of one Indred dollars over any multiple of one hundred dollars.

At the rate of two dollars for every oue Immired

dollars and for every fractional part of que hundred dollars over any multiple of one hundred dollars.

At the rate of three dollars for every one hundred dollars and for every fractional part of one hundred dollars over any multiple of one hundred dollars.

Exemption.-Il'here the Estate and Effects do not execed the value of $250,

44. Re-assignment,

45. Receipt or Discharge given for the payment of money, or in acquittal of a debt paid in money or other- wise, when the sum received, discharged or acquitted exceeds $25,

See Mortgage, 38.

5 cents.

Exemptions. Letter acknowledging the arrival of a Currency or Promis- sory Note, Bill of Exchange, or any security for money, Reccipt or Debit Note for the Premium on a duly stamped Policy of Insurance. Receipts for pay and allowances of persons in the service of the Imperial or Colonial

Government whether Civil, Naval, or Military.

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 duc 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.-Any instrument, whether volun- Į 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 lauds 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, ses Article 38 (i.) nud (ii.).

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

Ordinance 38 of 1902.