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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 869, 10 May 1871, Page 4

Exemptions from the preceding duties : All instruments relating to the services of apprentices, clerks or servants ; all bonds of mortgages, whether affecting real or personal estate, bills of sale by way of mortgage, aud all transfers, agreements, re-leases, re-conveyances, and discharges thereof; all preferable liens tinder " The Wool and Oil Securities Act, 1858 ;" all customs bonds \ all administration bonds ; all bonds on appointment of special bailiffs. Drafts or cheques payable on demand, or otherwise — Id. Lease, or agreement for a lease, for every LSO, or fractional part of LSO, for the 3'early rent — 2s 6d, Lease of waste lands under the provisions of any Waste Lands Act or Gold Melds Act are exempt from these duties. Policy of insurance of ships or cargo for any period not exceeding three mouths — 2s 6d ; all other marine policies, for every LI OO, or fractional part of Lloo— ls. Promissory notes, payable to the beaver on demand, issued Uy any Bank or Banking Company, at the rate of L 2 for every LI 00 of the average annual amount in circulation, as certified under " The Bankers Eeturns Act, 18o8." Receipts for any sum of Lo or upwards—ld. Exemptions. — Receipts for money pa : d to or for her Majesty; receipts endorsed on any duly stamped instrument acknowledging the receipt of the consideration money therein expressed ; acknowledgment given for any money deposited in any Bank; receipts fov any money paid into land, building, and provident societies. Transfers, except by way of mortgage, of any run or station held under lea3e from the Crown, or ot any interest therein, for every LIOO, or fractional part of LIOO, of value assessed, as provided in the Act — 10s. Transfer of shares or stock of any corporation, company, or society in New. Zealaud, where the purchase money shall not exceed L 20 — Is; exceeding L2O, and not exceeding L 50 — 2s 6d ; and so on, 2a 6d fov every LSO, ov fractional part of LSO.