CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 57

Fees in the Land Department, to which Your Lordship. justly objected as they stood in the schedule, the following will be the

amended scale.

On preparing any

Lease or grants,

of the annual

10 Per cent on the amount of the

the Public Seal to

Leases

Rental, will be dropped altogether.

Affining

this in been of being

or grants; this

5 Per cent

ad-valorem, has been fived for the future at-5 dollars on all. indiscriminately.

f

Registering any assignment mortgage.

or other alienation__ Although this fee

is

Annual_Rental

stated at 5 Per cent on the Annual Rental_

in the Schedule to which your Lordship. refers, yet in Ordinance . Nr. 3 of 18441 for the Registration of real property within the folony (already confirmed by Her Majesty ) the rate was altered, and the amount.

the fee om registration fixed.

at 5 Dollars

of

on

55

This

all, without reference to the value-

seems to be in conformity with the principle laid down in Your Lordship's

Despatch, and will therefore

unaltered

remain

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Your Indships,

Most Obedient:;.

Humble Servant,

ysdans