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LIST OF STAMP DUTIES

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

50 cents.

Nor■. —Agreements as to letting or tenancy are in all cases chargeable as leases. See articles 22 and 24. AGREEMENT or Contract accompanied with the deposit of Title Deeds to

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any immovable property, or for securing the payment or repayment See Mortgage, 26. of any money or stock

Hurtions.—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 Broker. Seaman's advance note, or memorandum, or agreement made between the master and mariners of any ship for

wages.-Emigration Contract.-Passage Ticket.

3. ARBITRATION AWARD, where the amount claimed or involved does not exceed $500...$1.

Where the amount exceeds $500 but does not exceed $1,000

$2.

And for every additional $1,000 or part of $1,000 over the first $1,000...$1. Where no money claim is made or the amount involved cannot be ?

ascertained

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 Attorney or Solicitor

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

Upon a sale

$2.

$50.

..See Mortgage, 26. ..Seo Conveyance, 14.

5.-ATTESTED COPY of any Document chargeable with Stamp Duty under $1.

this Schedule

Average STATEMENT.....

......See Bond, 10.

6.—BANK CHEQUE payable on demand to any person, to bearer, or order. .....2 cents.

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...

One per cent. per annum on the average value of such notes in cir. culation. To be collected monthly

on a statement thereof to be fur- nished by each Banker or Banking Company to the Collector of Stamp Revenue at the end of each month, and to be signed by the Banker, or Manager, or Agent, and Accountant of such Banker or Banking Company.

the

2 cents.

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

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 2 cents. 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 Bank Note......

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10.... Free.

10.... 250....

02 cents. 05

600.... 10

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1,000 #

2,000.... 60

2,000

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3,000

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),000.... 20

3,000...810.

5,000....$1.50.

6,000 $10,000...........$2.00. $10,000 $15,000.......... $3.00, Every R5,000 additional or

part thereof.

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Norm 1.-A Bill of Exchange for exactly $50 is to be charged 2 cents, and so throughout the table. Nork 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 charged 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 negotiated, the other parts 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 on account of Government, 10.-BOND, or other obligation concerning RESPONDENTIA AND BOT-

10 cents for every TOMRY, and Average Statement, or Bond where no statement is drawn up...

$100 or part thereof.

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

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

BOND

.......................See also

Articles 4, 20, 21, 33.

50 cents.

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

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

12. CHARTER PARTY, or any Agreement or Contract for the charter or) 10 cents for every

hiring of any sea-going ship or vessel, to be charged on the estimated freight.........

13.-COPY CHARTIB—

Vessel under 200 tons, each copy...

over 200 ++

$100 or part thereof.

$1.

$2.

• Order in Council of April 7th, 1887,