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SECTION

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SCHEDULI

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LIST OF STAMP DUTIES.

DOCUMENT.

VALUE OF STAMPS REQUIRED.

IMPRESSED.

ÅDHESIVE.

cts.

$

cts.

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NOTE. A Lease, executed in pursuance of a duly stamped Agreement for the same, shall require a Stamp of One Dollar only, to be affixed on production of such Agreement. Every Instrument in Writing under Seal not otherwise specially charged with Į

Duty under this Schedule........ Adjudication Fee, (under Clause XX. of

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GENERAL EXEMPTIONS. Any Deed, Instrument, or Writing of any kind whatsoever made or executed by or on behalf of Her Majesty, or of any De- partment of Her Majesty's Service, or whereby any Property or Interest is trans- ferred, to or any Contract of any kind whatsoever is made with Her Majesty, or any Person for or on behalf of Her Ma- jesty, or any such Department as afore- Baid.

NOTE. The foregoing exemption does not extend to any Deed, Instrument, or Writ- ing executed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as Official Administrator, or by a Receiver appointed by any Court; neither does it extend to a sale made for the recovery of an arrear of Revenue or Rent, or in satisfaction of a Decree or Order of Court, in any of which cases the purchaser shall be required to pay in ad- dition to the purchase money the amount of the requisite Stamp.

When of several Deeds, Instruments, or Writings a doubt shall arise which is the principal, it shall be lawful for the parties to determine for themselves which shall be so deemed.

In any case, however, where there are more Deeds than one, every other Deed than the principal requires a Stamp of Two Dollars, and every such collateral Deed shall specify by its contents which other is the principal Deed.

Any Deed, Instrument, or Writing requir

ed by the foregoing Schedule to be Stamped, may be written on one or more Stamps, if the value of the Stamp used amount to the value required by the Schedule.

Application for Allowances for spoiled Stamps will be entertained every Friday, from Noon to 2 P.M.

Stamp Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

30th September, 1867.

10 00

F. W. MITCHELL,

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Collector of Stamp Revenue.

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