LIST OF STAMP DUTIES.
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6.-Charter Party or any Agreement or Contract for the charter or hiring of any sea-going ship or vessel......
7.-Transfer of Shares or Stocks in any Public Com- ( pany. (Scrip Certificates to be exempt.).
8.-Power of Attorney.....
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9.-Note of Protest by any Commander or Master? of a vessel..........
10.-Any Notarial Act whatsoever not otherwise charged in this Schedule...............
11.-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 $10.........
EXEMPTIONS.
Letter sent by Post acknowledging the arrival of a Currency, or Promissory Note, Bill of Exchange, or any security for Money.
Receipt or Discharge written upon or contained in any Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Deed, or other Instru- ment charged with duty under this Schedule and duly Stamped, and Receipts for pay and allowances of persons in the service of the Government, whether Civil, Naval, or Military.
12.-Probates and Letters of Administration, with or without the Will annexed. (Administration Bonds exempt)
13. Conveyance, Assignment, or Instrument of any kind or description whatsoever not specially charged with duty under this Schedule executed for the transfer for valuable consideration of any property, moveable or immoveable, or of any right, title, claim, or interest in, to, or upon the same...................
Deed or other Instrument of gift, or of exchange or settlement, where no money consideration or a merely nominal money consideration passes.......
EXEMPTION.
Transfer by mere Endorsement of a duly Stamped Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, or other negotiable Instrument, or of a Bill of Lading, and transfer by Assign- ment of a Policy of Insurance.
14.-Mortgage.
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Where in a Mortgage the sum secured is unlimited... 15.—Re-assignment of any Mortgaged Property...... {
16.-Letter or other Instrument of Hypothecation accompanying deposit of Documents of title to any property........
17.-Duplicate or counterpart of any Deed, Instru- ment, or Writing of any description whatever chargeable with duty under this Ordinance....
300
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600
750
1,000
Every 100 Tons over Copy Charter under... 200
above...
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Duty to be calculated on
50 cents for every
$500.
$2.
25 cents.
$1.
3 cents.
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The same ad valorem Duty as one Conveyance, to be calculated upor the value of the Estate and effect: for or in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administra tion shall be granted, exclusive o what the deceased shall have been possessed of or entitled to as Trustee for any other person e persons, and not beneficially.
25 cents for every $100 or part of $100 of the Consideration Money up to $1,000, and $2 for every $1,000 or part of $1,000 after the first $1,000.
$25.
$1 on first $1,000 or part of $1,000,| and 50 cents on every other $1,000 or part thereof.
$25.
25 cents on every $5,000 or part of
$5,000.
$1.
The same duty as the Original when
such Duty does not exceed $1.
If the duty chargeable on the original exceeds $1,
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$1.
but does not exceed $10......
If the duty chargeable on the original exceeds $10, but does not exceed $20.....
$2.
If the duty on the original exceeds $20....
$3
Exceeding 200 & not exceeding, 300
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