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SCHEDULE.

LIST OF STAMP DUTIES UNDER ORDINANCE No. 16 of 1886.

NOTE-A document containing or relating to several distinct matters is to be separate and distinctly charged with duty in respect of each of such matters. Any document liable to Stamp duty under more than one article of this Schedule shall be charged under that article which imposes the highest duty.

1.— ADJUDICATION as to the amount of stamp duty tobe levied on any docu-)

ment..

2. — AGREEMFNT, or any memorandum of an agreement, under hand only, and not speially charged with any duty, whether the same be only evidence of a contract, or obligatory on the parties from its being a written instrument

$1.

50 cents.

Nota. --Agreements as to letting or tenancy are in all cases chargeable as leases. bee articles 22 and 24. AGREEMENT OF Conrict recompanied with the deposit of Title Doods to )

3.

any in movable property, or for securing the payment or repaymentSee Mortgage, 26. of ing money or stock

EXEMPTIONS. - Label, slip, or memorandum containing the heads of any Insurance to be effected by means of a duly

stamped Policy or Risk Note,

Memorandum, letter, or agreement made for or relating to the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise, or to the

sale of any shares in any public company, not being a Broker's note or document given by a Broser. Seaman's advance note, or memoranduin, or agreement made between the master and mariners of any ship for

wages, - -Emigration Contract.-Passage Ticket.

ARBITRATION AWARD

4.—ARTICLES OF CLERKSHIP, or Contract whereby any person shall first be- )

come bound to serve as a clerk in order to his admission as an Actorney or Solicitor

ASSIGNMENT, by way of security, or of any security.

Upon a sale

5.—ATTESTED Cory of any Document chargeable with Stamp Duty under {

this Schedule

AVERAGE STATEMENT

6.—Bank CHEQUE payable on demand to any person, to bearer, or order,

7.-BANK NOTES, or other obligations for the payment of money

issued by any Banker or Banking Company in the Colony for- local circulation and payable to bearer on demand....

J

1.

„See Mortgag›, 26.

See Conveyance, 14.

$1.

...See Bond, 10.

2 cents.

Two-thirds per cent. per annum on the

average value of Such mores in die culation. To be collected monthly on a statein ut thereof to be for. nished by each. Banker or Banking Company to the Collector of scump Revenue at the end of each mouth, and to be signed by the Banker a Manager, or Agent, and Aremnatant ofsucu bankeror Banking、olapasy.

8.-BILL OF EXCHANGE drawn out of but payable on demand within the 2 cents.

Colony, not being a Cheque, and bearing the date on which it was made ) BILL OF EXCHANGE drawn out of and payable on demand out of the? Colony, when negotiated within the Colony

BILL OF EXCHANGE of any other kind whatsoever except a Cheque or Bank Note and Promissory Note of any kind whatsoever except a Bans Note.

2 cents.

Free.

From $ Orto 3

12 centau

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S

Every 20 Adarious or

part thereot

- 80,50.

NOTE 1.

-A Bill of Exchange for exactly $50 is to be charged 2 cents, and so throughout the table. NOTE 2. --When Bills of Exchange or other such documents are drawn in sets of two or more, half the above duties to be charged on each part of a set. If the Duty be 5 cents the first part of the set shall be chrged 3 cents, and the other parts 2 cents each.

NOTE 3-In the case of Bills in sets drawn out of the Colony, the whole duty shall be payable on that part of the set which is first presented for payment or acceptance, or is first otherwise negotistêd, the other parts of the att being free.

9.—BILL OF LADING, or ship's receipt where bills of lading are not used, for 10 cents.

each part of every set

EXEMPTION. - Bill of Lading for goods shipped by any Government Officer ou account of Government.

10.—BoxD, or other obligation concerning RESPONDENTIA AND Bor-) 10 cents for every

TOMRY, and Average Statement, or Bond where no statement is drawn up..

BOND for securing the payment or repayment of money not otherwise pro-

$100 or thereof.

part

vided for, or for tu transfer or re-transfer of stock, or accompanying See Mortgage, 26, the deposit of Title Deeds to any immovable property.

BOND....

11.—BROKER'S NOTE, or any document having reference to the sale

purchase of any merchandise, given by any Broker...

(See also Articles 4. 120, 21, 33.

or ) 50 cents.

12.-CHARTER PARTY, or any Agreement or Contract for the charter or hiring of any sea-going ship or vessel, to be charged on the estimated freight.

• Order in Council of April 7th, 1557.

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10 cents for every

$100 thereof.

or

part