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Dunstan Times, Issue 264, 17 May 1867, Page 4

EXTRACTED FROM SCHEDULE TO “STAMP DUTIES ACT, 1866. ■ • ** - ■ ■■ Schedule 1. Containing tlie Duties on Deeds and other Instruments relating to transactions between living persons. Agreement or any minute or memo ran- s d. dura of an agreement under hand only where the matter thereof shall bo of the value of L.20 or upwards, whether the saiuii.-fjhall 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 parties who shall have written such letters, it shall bo sufficient if any of such letters will he 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 demand of any sum of money not exceeding L. DO, ... ... 1 0 Ditto, not exceeding L. 100, ... ... 2 0 And where the same shall exceed L. 100 then for every L.DO, and also for any fractional part of L.50 ... ... 1 0 Foreign Bill of Exchange, drawn in, but payable out of, the Colony of New Zealand— If drawn singly, or otherwise than in a set of two or more) —the same duty as on an Inland Bill of the same amount and tenor) If 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. 100, ... ... ... 1 0 Ami where the same shall exceed 1.. 100, then for every L.50, and also any .fractional part of L.50, ... ...0 6 ■lf drawn in sots of three or more, for every Bill of each set, where the sum payable thereby shall not exceed LSO 0 4 And where it shall exceed EDO 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, ... ... 04 Exemptions from the foregoing duties on Bills of Exchange.—All Debout urea and Treasury Bills issued by the Government of New Zealand. All 1 >rafts or Orders for the payment of *ny sum of money to the bearer on demand drawn upon any Banker, person, or company, are exempt from the foregoing duties, but arc 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 tire 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 and tenor.) Promissory Note, for the payment in any other manner than to Ihe'bearor on demand of any sum of money not exceeding L. 25, ... ...06 Exceeding 1. 25, not exceeding L.50 ... 1 0 Promissory Note, for the payment, cither to the bearar, on demand, of any sum of money exceeding L.50, and not exceeding L. 100, ... ...2 0 Where the sum shall exceed L. 100, then for every L.50, and fractional part of L.50, ... ... ... 1 0 Exemptions from the foregoing duties on Promissory Notes, hut not from any other duty to which the same may he liable—All Promissory Notes for the payment of money mi demand issued by any Bank or Banking Company in New Zealand, authorised to issue such notes and making such returns and paying such compositions as in this Act respectively mentioned. All Bills, Drafts or Orders, or Promissory Notes for the payment by any Bank or Banking Company of any sum of money though not made payable 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 bo named or designated therein or not, or whether the same shall bo delivered to him or not, shall respectively bo deemed to he Bills, Drafts, or Orders for the payment of money chargeable with Stamp Duty, as if the same had been made payable to bearer or to order. Convevance of any kind or description whatsoever upon the sale of any property in respect of the principal or .only writing whereby the property sold shall be conveyed to or vested in the purchaser or any other person or 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. 100, ... .. 10 0 And where the same shall exceed L.IOO, then for every L.50, and any fractional part of L.50, ... ...5 0 Deed or instrument of any kind whatever not otherwise charged in this .Schedule, ... ... ... ... 10 0 Exemptions from the preceding duties .on 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 mortgagee, whether affecting real or personal estate, bills of sale by way of mortgage, and all transfers, agreements, releases, re-conveyances, and discharges thereof. All preferable liens under “The Wool and Oil Securities Act, 1858,” All Customs’ Bonds. All Administration Bonds. „ - - All Bonds ca Appointment of Special Bailiffs. Draft or Order, including chccpucs or orders on bankers for the payment of any sum of money to a payee named j <ir to bearer, or to order either on de- ‘ maud or otherwise not otherwise