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Grey River Argus, Issue 154, 8 January 1867, Page 4

[ ."■ £ s. d. Acknowledgment given: for money deposited in any Banks to be l accounted for Receipts for moneys paid into Land, Building, and Investment Societies. Transfer, except by way of Mortgage, of any run or station held under lease or license, or promiso of lease or license, from the Crown, or of any interest therein, where the declared . value of the said run or station, or interest, or the value thereof assessed as in this Act provided, : shall not exceed LIOO ...0 10 0 And where such value shall ; exceed Ll oo, then for every LIOO, and any fractional part of Ll 00 0 10 Q Transfer of any share or shares in the strck and funds of any corporation, couvpany, or society whatever in New Zealand, upon sale thereof— Where the purchase, or consideration money therein expressed, shall not exceed L2O ... Q 10 Exceeding L2O, and not exceeding LSO ... 0 2 6 Exceeding LSO, and not exceeding LIOO ... 0 5 0 For every additional LSO. or fractional part of LSO ...0.2 G SCHEDULE 11. Containing the Duties on Probates of Wills, and Letters of Administration, Pjrobate of a Will, and letters of Administration with a Will an. nexed, where the effects, ag sworn to by the Executor op Administrator, shall be — Under the value of Ll oo „,1 0 0 Above the value of LJOO, and under L2OO ... 2 0 0 Above the value of L2OO, and under L3OO ...3 0 0 Above the value of L3OO, and under L4OO ... 4 0 0 Above the value of 1400, and under LiidO ..500 And above Lf>oo ... 1 pur cent. Lettebsof Administration, with-* out a Will annexed, where the effects, as sworn to by the Ad. ministrator, shall be — Under the value of Ll oo „, 1 10 0 Above the value of LIOO, and under L2OO ... 3 0 0 Above the value of L2OO, and under L3OO . ... 4 10 0 Above the value of L3OO. and . under L4OO ' ... GOO Above the value of L4OO, and under LSOO ... 7 10 0 i And above LSOO. : ...l^ per conk SCHEDULE 111. Containing the Duties on Legacies, and Succession to Personal Estate, undeu any Testamentary Disposition, or upon Intestacy. „•' Legacy duty to be charged on every legacy, ' specific or' pecuniary, to tho value of more than : L2O, given by Will, out of personal estate, or charged on real property, or of money to arise from such side or mortgage of real property. Also for the dear residue decending to one or more persons after payment of debts, funeral expenses, and legacies above the value of L2O after passing of this Act. In like manner on the clear resi. due of money arising from mortgage or sale of real property, aftor deducting debts, . funeral expenses, and legai-ies as before, when the residue amounts to above L2O. Legacy or residue decending to child or decendant of child of deceased, or to father, mother, or liiical ancestor of deceased, pays one per cent duty Ll per cent. Legacy or residue devolving on brother or sister or their descendant pays three per cent duty . L 3 per cent. To uncle or aunt, or their decend. ants, pays five per cent duty L 5 per cent. To grand-uncle or to grand-aunt, or to theiv decendants, pays six per cent duty ... L(i per cent. To any more distant, collateral relation, pays seven per cent duty ... L 7 per cent. And when it devolves upon a stranger to the blood of the deceased, it pays ten per cent duty ... LlO per ocnt. And gifts of annuities, or other partial interests in such estates as aforesaid, are to be deemed legacies Legatee taking more than one legacy under the same will, together amounting to L2O, pays duty, although neither legacy separately would have been liable to the duty. But legacies .and residues of cftatcs, or effects devolving on husband or wife of the de- ;/ ceased, arc exempt from legacy duty SCHEDULE IV, Duties of Successions to Real and Personal Estate — Where the successor shall be the lineal issue or lineal ancestor of the predecessor, a duty upon tho value of the succession at the rate of ... Ll per cent, Where the decendant shall be a brothor or sister to a decendant of a brother or sister of the predecessor, a duty ujjon the value of the succession of ... L 3 per cent. Where the successor shall be a brother or sister of the father or- mother, or a decendant of a ' brother or sisfer of the father or mother of the predecessor, a duty upon the value of the succession of ... L 5 per cent. Where the successor shall be a brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmother or a decendant of a brother or sistor of the grandfather or grandmother of the predecessor, a, duty upon the value of the succession • of „. L 6 per oont. Where the successor shall be in any other degree of collateral consanguinity to the predecessor than is hereinbefore dc- . scribed, a duty upon the value of the succession of ... L 7 per cent. Where the successor shall be a 1 stranger in blood .to the predecessor, a duty iipnn the value !. : ' ,of the succession of Ll() per cent. Exemptions from the foregoing | duties: — AH 'successions given to, or in trust for, or. which : shall devolve upon, or : be ac? I quired by the husband or wife of the predecessor . j ■ ... .-■■■ -. ' \ i