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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 voto at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such 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 Foreign 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 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 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 5 cents for every$100 Mortgage endorsed on such Mortgage............

War-

or part thereof.

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

Ј (iv.) Reassignment, release, discharge, surrender, resurrender, warrant 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 27.-Any NOTARIAL ACT whatsoever not otherwise charged with duty 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

20.-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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1 cent for every $100 or part thereof.

25

cents.

.$1.

2 cents fo every $1,000 or

part thereof insured.

10 cents; where it exceeds $1,000, 23 cents.

(c) All other Insurances, Fire, Marine, or otherwise Where the amount Insured does not exceed $1,000 30.-POWER OF ATTORNEY

Revocation of

1.-PRODATE, or Lotters 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

$2.

$

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Where the nett value of the estate does not exceed $5,000, one per cent, ou the nett value.

Where such value excreds $5,000, two per cent, on the nett valuc.

See Mortgage, 26.

of a debt paid in money 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 ou a duly stumped Policy of Insurance. Receipt given by any ollicer or soldier of Her Majesty's forces stationed in the Colony for money paid out of Imperial Revenue.

The same duty as a Mortgage, see Ar- ticle 26, i. & ii.

33,-SERVANT'S SECURITY BOND. Any Instrument in writing under seal by which any domestic or other Servant or Clerk or Compradore 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 deposit of the Title Deeds to any property or by any assigninent.... 34.-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 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 tlie same property as personal estate of

the testator.

30 cents for every $100 or part there- of of the amount

or value of the property settled or agreed to be settled.