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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which leried.

STAMP DUTIES,--Continued.

Deed of Assignment where no money consider- ation or a merely nominal money consideration passes in cases where such Deed of Assignment is merely con- firmatory of an Assignment on which the full conveyance duty has been paid.

$20.

Note. The Collector of Stamp Revenue shall, unless the two deeds referred to in the last paragraph are comprised in one and the same document, denote by an entry under bis band made upon the Doed stumped with the $20 duty, that the full convoyanes duty (if more than $20) has been paid upon the other.

1. Deposit of Title Deeds...................

1. Duplicate or Counterpart of any Document chargeable with duty under this Schedule, to be affixed on the production of the original Document bearing its proper Stamp, and not otherwise. If the original duty

is-

Under $1,

Over $1 and not exceeding $10

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$10 $20

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$20

See Mortgage, 38.

Same duty.

$1.

$2.

$3.

Note. The duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty is not to be deemed duly stamped unless it appears by some entry made by the Collector or by some stamp impressed thereon that the full and proper duty has been paid upon the original instrument of which it is a duplicate or counterpart or unless it is stamped as an original instrument.

1. Equitable charge....

See Mortgage, 38.

1. Foreign Attachment Bond, in the Supreme Court, either Jurisdiction,

1

$1 for every $100 or part

1

thereof.

1. Guarantee,

1. Every Instrument in writing under seal, not otherwise specially charged with duty under this Schedule,

Note. The impressions of Chinese names, shop names, or trading names, commonly called chops, shall not be taken to be seals within the meaning of this Article.

1. Lease or Agreement for a Lease, made for a term of years, or for a period determinable with one or more life or lives or otherwise contingent, in consider- ation of a sum of money paid in the way of premium, fine, or the like, if without rent,....................

1. Lease executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for the same,

1. Lease or Agreement for a Lease of any Land, House, Building or Tenement, at a rent, without pay- ment of any sum of money by way of fine or premium, to be levied on the Annual Rent, for a term not exceed- ing-

One year,

Three years,

Thirty years,

See Agreement. 4.

$10.

30 cents for every $100 or

part thereof.

$3.

10 cents.

23

For

27

1 50

75

Stamp Ordinances, Nos. 16 of 1901 and 35 of 1911.

Exceeding thirty years,

Lease, Surrender of,

Lease, Transfer of, with consideration money,

every $100 or part thereof.

The same amount of duty

as is payable on the lease itself.

See Articlo 21.

Note. When both rent is paid and there is a fine or premium, the duty is to be the

total of that due under both Articles 32 and 34.

Exemption.-All rentals under $50 per annum.

1. Letter or other instrument of Hypothecation accompanying deposit of doenments of title to any mov- able property, or bond, or other instrument of guarantee in respect of such property or documents of title,.

1. Letter or Power of Attorney, or other instrument in the nature thereof, for the sole purpose of appointing or authorizing a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instruments be one or morŮ, ........................... + ***p*

Exemption. Intended solely for use outside the Colony exempted from Stamp Duty. (Order in Council of 18th February, 1915.)

F

Referring to particular pro-

perty $3. Duplicate. 30 cents. General $6.

5 cents. See also Power

of Attorney, 42.