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HONGKONG STAMP DUTIES

LETTER OF GUARANTEE. LETTER OF POWER OF ATTORNEY, or otherinstrument in the nature thereof, for the sole purpose of appointing or authorising a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in sneh instrument be one or more............... 26. MORTGAGE, or Agreement for a Mortgage, Bond, Debenture, Covenant, Warrant of Attorney to confess and enter up judgment, and For ign security of any kind not specially charged with duty under this Sche- dule, to be levied on the amount or value of the principal sum secured,

See Agreement, 2.

2 cents.

(i.) Being the only, or principal, or primary security, and also where ? 10 cents for every any further money is added to the money already secured......... $100 or part thereof (ii) Being acollateral or anxiliary or additional or substituted security,)

other than a Mortgage executed pursuant to a duly stamped agreement for the same, or by way of further assurance for the above-mentioned purpose where the principal or primary security

is duly stamped, and for every extension of the time of an Original scents for every $100

Mortgage endorsed on such Mortgage.....

or part thereof.

(iii) Transfer, assignment, disposition or assignation of any Mort- gage Bond. Debenture, Covenast, or Foreign security, or of any money or stock secured by any such instrument, or by any War- rant of Attorney to enter up Judgment, or by any Judgment; to be levied on the amount transferred

J (iv.) Reassignment, release, discharge, surrender, resurrender, warrant

to vacale, or renunciation of any such security as atoresaid, or of the benefit thereof, or of the money thereby secured.................... (v.) Mortgage executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for sama 27.-Any NOTARIAL ACT whatsoever not otherwise charged with duty in this Schedule.

1 cent for every $100 or part thereof.

28. NOTE OF PROTEST by any Commander or Master of a vessel, or with 25 cents.

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regard to any Promissory Note or Bill of Exchange 29.-POLICIES Or Risk Notes (Insurance) for each copy and every renewal;

(a.) Life Insurance (including Interim Receipts) (b) Marine Hull Risks for Time.....

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(c.) All other Insurances, Fire, Marine, or otherwise

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$1.

25 cents for every $100 OT

part thereof musired.

Where the amount insured does not exceed $1,000,

10 cents; where it excceds $1,000, 25 cents.

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 shali 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 gives for the payment of money, or in acquittal

$2.

Where the nett value of the estate does hot exceed FILE" per cent. on the nett value. Where such value exceeds $4,000, two per cent, on the nett value.

See Mortgage, 26.

of a debt paid in noney or otherwise, when the sum received, dis-2 cents. charged, or acquitted exceeds $10 .....

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 oitirer or soldier of Her Majesty's forces stationed in the Colony for money paid out of Imperial Revenue.

Mortgage, see Ar- ticle 26, i. & ii.

33. SERVANT'S SECURITY BOND. Any instrument in writing under seal }

by which any domestic or other S. rvant or Clerk or Compra iore shall give security for the due disenarge 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 e. trusted to him, or for the proper carrying ! The same duty as a on of business to be conducted by him, or for the discharge of ins responsibilities arising from sue, business, whether such security shall be given by the binding of other persons, or by the deposit of money or valuable property or by deposit of the Title Deeds to any property or by any assignment.......... 84.—SETTLEMENT. Any instrument, whether voluntary or upon any good or valuable consideration, other than a bond fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any delinite and certain principal sum of money (whether charged or chargeable on tauds 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

30 cents for every $100 or part there. of of the amount or value of the properly settled or agreed to be settled.

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

35.-SETTLEMENT executed in pursuance of a duly stamped agreement for the same...$1.

the testator.

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