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Dunstan Times, Issue 254, 8 March 1867, Page 4

EXTRACTED FROM SCHEDULE TO "STAMP DUTIES ACT, 1866." ©•aUining the Duties on Deeds and other Instruments relating to transactions between living persons. Asbiiubmt or any minate or memoran- s. d. dum of an agreement under hand only where the matter thereof shall be •f the value of L.20 or upwards, whether the same shall only be evidence of a contract or obligatory on the parties from its being a written instrument, together with every schedule, receipt, or other matter put or indorsed thereon, or annexed thereto 1 0 Provided always that where divers letters shall be offered in evidence to prove any agreement between the Earties who shall have written such itters, it shall be sufficient if any of •uch letters will be stamped with a duty of two shillings and sixpence. ■Bills or Exchange— Inland Bill of Exchange, Draft, or Order, for the payment to the bearer or to order at any otherwise than on desand of any sum of money not exceeding L.50, ... ... ... 1 0 Ditto, not exceeding LIOO, ... ... 2 0 And where the same shall exceed L.IOO then for every L. 50, and also for any fractional part of L.50 ... ...10 •Foreign Bill of Exchange, drawn in, but payable out of, the Colony of New Zealand— If drawn Bingly, or otherwise than in a set of two or more) —the same duty as •n an Inland Bill of the same amount and tenor) ■lf drawn in sets of two, then for every Bill of each set where the sum payable - shall not exceed L.50, ... ... 0 6 And where it shall exceed L.50 and not exceed L.IOO, ... ... ... 1 0 And where the same shall exceed L. 100, then for every L.50, and also any fractional part of L.50, ... ... 0 6 If drawn in sets of three or more, for •very Bill of each set, where the sum payable thereby shall not exceed LSO 0 4 And where it shall exceed LSO and not exceed L. 100, ... ... 0 8 And where the same shall exceed L. 100, then for every L.50 and also any fractional part of L.50, ... ... 0 4 Exemptions from the foregoing duties on Bills of Exchange—All Debentures and Treasury Bills issued by the- ' Government of New Zealand. All Drafts or Orders for the payment of any sum of money to the bearer on demand drawn upon any Banker, person, or company, are exempt from the foregoing duties, but are subject to the duty of a penny charged upon Drafts and Orders. Bills of Exchange drawn out of the Colony, but endorsed or negotiated within the Colony, the same duties as on a Bill of Exchange drawn within the Colony and payable within the Colony—(The same duty as on an Inland Bill of the same amount snl tenor.) Promissory Note, for the payment in any other manner than to the bearer on demand of any sum of money not •xceeding L.25, ... ... 0 6 Exceeding L.25, not exceeding L.50 ... 1 0 Promissory Note, for the payment, •ither to the bcarar, on demand, of any sum of money exceeding L.50, and not exceeding L. 100, ... ... 2 0 Where the sum shall exceed L.IOO, then for every L.50, and fractional part of L.50, ... ... ... l o Exemptions from the foregoing duties on Promissory Notes, but not from any other duty to which the same may be liable—All Promissory Notes for the payment of money on demand issued by any Bank or Banking Company in New Zealand, authorised to issue such notes and making such returns and paying such compositions a* in this Act respectively mentioned. All Bills, Drafts or Orders, or Promissory Notes for the payment by any Bank or Banking Company of any sumof money though-not made payabb to the bearer or to order, and whether - delivered to the payee or not, and all writings or documents entitling any person to the payment by any Bank or Banking Company of any sum of , money, whether the person to whom •payment is to be made shall be named or designated therein or not, or -whether the same shall be delivered ' to him or not, shall respectively be deemed to be Bills, Drafts, or Orders for the payment of money chugeable with Stamp Duty, as if the sane had boon made payable to bearer or to order. ) Ooitveyance of any kind or description whatsoever upon the sale of any property in respect of the principal or onTy writing whereby the property •old shall be conveyed to or vested in the purchaser or any other person •r persons by his direction (except transfers expressly provided for by this Act)Where the purchase or consideration money therein or thereupon expressed shall not exceed L. 50, ... 5 0 And where the same shall exceed LSO and not exceed L.IOO, ... .. 10 0 And where the same shall exceed L. 100, then for every L. 50, and any fractional part of L.50, ... ...5 0 Vsso or instrument of any kind whatever not otherwise charged in this Schedule 10 0 Exemptions from the preceding duties en deeds or instruments not otherwise charged in this Schedule— Apprentices and Clerkships—All instruments relating to the services of apprentices, clerks, or servants. Mortgage—All bonds and mortgages, whether affecting real or personal estate, bills of sale by way of mortgage, •ndall transfers, agreements, releases, re-oonveyances, and discharges thereof. All preferable liens under "The Wool and Oil Securities Act, 1858." All Customs' Bonds. All Administration Bonds. All Bonds on Appointment of Special Bailiffs. Djurr or Order, including cheques or orders on bankers for the payment of any sum of money to a payee named cr to bearer, or to order cither on demand or otherwise not otherwise charged, ... 0 j Leafs, or Agreement for a Lease, or any written document for the tendancy or occupancy of any lands tenments, or hered: Amenta, without any con-