Our Premanent Column

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1916, Page 4

Our Premanent Column

1 FOR R£ADY RJEFERENOB. fiTAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memoxandun. of Agreement, Iβ 3d with letters, etc., attached, Appraisement o» Valuation where the *>iMimt does not exceed £20, Iβ.; .%•' <v.\l £20, does nut exceed £50, !te 6d, .-speed £100, and doee not exceed £210 10a, £,1,1)0 and does not exceed £500 i -I, exceeds £500 20a. Award, eanie a* Valuations, except e-.ceeda £500 but not £1000, 20s; excods £1000, 35e. P.n'a. not exceeding £25 6di, exceeds £V 5, and not exceeding £60 Iβ, every 10s. iJills of Exchange. Oon demand 2il ; oil. rwise than on demand, if running for any amount not exceeding £50. Iβ; every additional £50 or part of £50, "Is.; if drawn in a set, such OMB upon each bill of the set ae to irake ay tile same duty ae if a single lill were drawn tor the amount.

Promissory Notes.—Payment on detuaud 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exeeec■ ing £25, 6d,; exceeding £25 and c exceeding £50, 1».; every addition *l ££C or part of £SO, Iβ. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where suoL duty does not amount to is, tho same duties as the original inetritment; in any other case Sβ. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent does not exceed £60 Sr for every additional £50 or part of £50 Be. For any instrument afiecting a partition of lands upon «ny ooneideratioa exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or »u----oeator. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by the Municipal Corporations Act to erect for the occupation of workers employed or resident in boroughs any buildings suitable for workers' dwellings, or may acquire buildings by purchase or otherwise, and render them suitable for r-*'v. tune purpoeo, the letting to be in the handa of the Council.

ior. it made for the repayment of advances and t/li« payment of adv-iinces and the payment of purchase-money hy instalments. THE RDLEB OF THE AOAD. The Rule of the Road is * para<loi quite; For in driving your carriage along, if you baar to the left you are jure to go right, if yoo tarn to the rixht yon go wrong. liut in walking the street* 'tit a different case; To the right it is right won aiioald uteer, On the left should b« left eno'agb of clear space For the people »ho wish to walk there. THE FENCING ACT. HREOTION OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule is a inefficient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Act («.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liable to join in o/ contribute in equal proportions to tho eroction of a fence between suoh lands, although luch fence m&y not ext«nd along the whole boundary line. But no occupier is liahie to contribute to any fence which is not, m far as praetiaafei*, eemtinmaas* throughout it* length.