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LIST OF STAMP DUTIES.

5 cents for every $100

or part thereof.

(ii.) Being a collateral or auxiliary or additional or substituted)

security, other than a Mortgage executed pursuant to a duly stamped agreement for the same, or by way of further assur- ance for the above-mentioned purpose where the principal or primary security is duly stamped, and for every extension of the time of an Original Mortgage endorsed on such Mortgage. (iii.) Transfer, assignment, disposition or assignation of any Mort- gage, Bond, Debenture, Covenant, or Foreign security, or of any inoney or stock secured by any such instrument, or by any Warrant of Attorney to enter up Judgment, or by any Judg- ment; to be levied on the amount transferred....... (iv.) Reassignment, release, discharge, surrender, resurrender, war- rant to vacate, or renunciation of any such security as aforesaid, or of the benefit thereof, or of the money thereby secured....... (v.) Mortgage executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for same...$1. 27.-Any NOTARIAL ACT whatsoever not otherwise charged in this Schedule. ...$1. 28. NOTE OF PROTEST by any Commander or Master of a vessel, or

with regard to any Promissory Note or Bill of Exchange

29. POLICY or Risk Note of Marine, Fire, Life or other Insurance, for

each copy, and every renewal...... 30.—POWER OF ATTORNEY 31.-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 possessed of, or entitled to as a Trustee for any other person or persons and not beneficially

EXEMPTION.-Administration Bonds, and Estates under $250.

REASSIGNMENT

32. RECEIPT or Discharge given for the payment of money, or in acquittal of a debt paid in money or otherwise, when the sum received, discharged, or acquitted exceeds $10

1 cent for every $100

or part thereof,

25 cents.

10 cents.

$2.

$1 for every $100 or

part thereof.

See Mortgage, 26.

3 cents.

EXEMPTIONS.-Letter acknowledging the arrival of a Currency or Promissory Note, Bill of Exchange, or any security for money, Receipt or Debit Note for the Premium on a duly stamped Policy of Insurance. Receipt given by any officer or soldier of Her Majesty's forces stationed in the Colony for money paid out of Imperial Revenue.

33.-SERVANT'S SECURITY BOND. Any Instrument in writing under scal by which any domestic or other Servant or Clerk or Com- pradore shall give security for the due 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 de- posit of the Title Deeds to any property or by any assignment.... 24. SETTLEMENT. Any instrument, whether voluntary 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 lands 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 Mortgage, see Article 26, i. & ii.

30 cents for every $100 or part there-- of of the amount or value of the pro- perty settled or agreed to be set- tled.

EXEMPTION.Instrument of appointment relating to any property in favour of persons especially named or described as the objects of a power of appointment created by a previous Settlement stamped with ad valorem duty in respect of the same property, or by will, where probate duty has been paid in respect of the same property as personal estate of the testator.

35.—SETTLEMENT executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for same...$1. 36.-TRANSFER OF SHARES or stock in any public company, to be

computed on the market value of such shares on the day of stamping, 10 cents for every $100 which, if doubt arises, the collector shall decide subject to Section or part thereof. 15 of this Ordinance.

(ii)-Transfer for a nominal amount, to be approved by the Collector......

EXEMPTION.-Scrip Certificate.

GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.

$1.

Any Document made or executed by or on behalf of Her Majesty or of any Department of Her Majesty's Service, or whereby any property or interest is transferred to, or any contract of any kind whatsoever is made with Her Majesty or any person for or on behalf of Her Majesty or any such Department as aforesaid,

But this exemption does not extend to any Document executed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court as Official Admini- strator or by a Receiver appointed by any Court, or to any Document rendered necessary by any Ordinance or by the order of 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 Decres or Order of Court, in any of which cases the purchaser shall be required to pay the amount of the requisite Stamp in addition to the purchase money.