SCHEDULE I. Additional or Altered Duties.

West Coast Times, Issue 914, 27 August 1868, Page 4

SCHEDULE I. Additional or Altered Duties.

Peomissohy Note made or purporting

to be made out of the colony but endorsed negotiated or paid within the colony the aame duty as ou an inland bill payable to beaver or to order at any time otherwise than on demand. Bill of Exchange payable on demand which shall bo endorsed out of tho colony or purport to bo so endorsed wheresoever the same may have been drawn but puid within the colony ... ... ...0 1 ErcEiPisfor money deposited at interest in any bank or in tho bauds of any banker ... ... 0 1 Aqbivejikxt by deed ... ... 10 0 Conveyances — Where t he consideration or any part of tho consideration shall bo any conveyance or transfer of other land or property by way or in the nature of au exchango shall be charged with the ad valorem duty duty in respect of Iho amount which shall bo by the person en-

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ccuting the conveyance declared to be the value of the land conveyed. Where the consideration or any part of the consideration shall be any annual sum of money payable in perpetuity shall be charged with tho ad valorem duiy in respect of the amount which Bhall according to the Table in Schedule 111. hereto annexed appear to bo the value assigned to such annual sum of money. Assignment or transfer of miners' property or letters or instrument authorising the transfer or assignment of miners' property where the letter or instrument is the only acfc required on the part of the vendor or assignor. Whero the purchase or consideration money therein expressed or the value of the property transferred or to be transferred shall not exceed L2O ... ... 1 0 Exceeding L2O and nofc exceeding LSO 2 6 Exceeding LSO and nofc exceeding LIOO 5 0 For every additional LSO or fractional part of LSO ... ... ... 2 6 Exemplification of probate ... 2 6 Coxtntebpaet of lease or agreement by deed ... ... ... 2 6 SCHEDULE 11. Additional Exemptions teom Duty. Cheques drafts or orders for tbe payment or transmission of public money by or on behalf of her Majesty the Queen, or by or on behalf of the Governor or Colonial Treasurer or by or on behalf of the Superintendent or Provincial Treasurer of any province. Bonds* of officers in tho Civil Service of New Zealand or in the Civil Service of any of the provinces of New Zealand. Letters Patent. Warrants or other instruments of appointment to oflice of the General Government or of any Provincial Government. Licenses to occupy land or cut timber under Acts or regulations relating to Crown or waste lands. Policies insuring the holder against risk of loss or damage by fire. Policies of assurance on lives of persons effecting the same. Receipts for deposits in any posfc-office or savings banks or any society established pursuant to any Acfc of the General Assembly for the time being in force relating to Building and Land Societies or Friendly Benefit or Industrial Societies. Exemptions feom the Duties on Pbomissoby Notes. All notes promising the payment of any sum or sums of money out of any particular fund which may or may nofc be available or upon any contingency which may or may nofc be performed or happen where the same shall not be made payable to the bearer or to order if the same shall amount to the sum of twenty pounds or or be indefinite. And all other instruments bearing in any degree the form or style of promissory notes but which in law shall be deemed ' special agreements except those hereby expressly directed to be deemed promissory notes. But such of the notes and instruments here exempted from the duty on promissory notes shall nevertheless be liable to the duty which may attach thereon as agree tncnts or otherwise.