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CHARTER-PARTY or any agreement or contract
for the charter of any ship or vessel, or any memo-
randum, letter or other writing between the captain,
master or owner of any ship or vessel, and any other
person, for or relating to the freight or conveyance
of any money, goods or effects, on board of such
ship or vessel..................

And where the same, together with any schedule,
receipt or other matter put or indorsed thereon,
or annexed thereto, shall contain 2,160 words
or upwards, then and for every entire quantity
of 1,080 words contained therein, over and above
the first 1,080 words, a further progressive duty
of............

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CONVEYANCE, whether grant, disposition, lease, assignment, transfer, release, renunciation or of any other kind or description whatsoever, upon the sale of any lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other

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STAMP.

Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Duty.

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CONVEYANCE-continued.

property, real or personal, heritable or moveable,
or of any right, title, interest or claim in, to, out
of, or upon any lands, tenements, rents, annuities,
or other property; that is to say, for and in respect
of the principal or only deed, instrument or writing,
whereby the lands or other things sold shall be
granted, leased, assigned, transferred, released, re-
nounced or otherwise conveyed to, or vested in, the
purchaser or purchasers, or any other person or
persons, by his, her or their direction;

Where the purchase or consideration money.

therein or thereupon expressed shall not amount
to 201.........

And where the same shall amount to 201. and not
amount to 50l. .............

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And where the same shall amount to 50l. and not
amount to 150l. .................

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And where any freehold lands or hereditaments
in England shall be conveyed by a deed of
feoffment, with or without any letter or letters
of attorney therein contained to deliver or re-
ceive seisin, or by a deed of bargain and sale
inrolled; such deed of feoffment or bargain
and sale, unless accompanied with a lease and
release, shall be charged with a further duty,
as follows:

If the purchase or consideration money
therein or thereupon expressed, shall be
under 20%.............................

If it shall amount to 20l. and not amount to
50l.........

If it shall amount to 50l. and not amount to
150/................

If it shall amount to 150l. or upwards....... But if there shall be both a feoffment and a bargain and sale inrolled, then the said further duty shall not attach on either.

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STAMP.

Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Duty.

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Apportionment

of consideration.

CONVEYANCE-continued.

Note. The purchase or consideration money
to be truly expressed and set forth in words at
length, in or upon every such principal or only
deed or instrument of conveyance.
And where any lands or other property, of differ-
ent tenures or holdings, or held under different
titles, contracted to be sold at one entire price
for the whole, shall be conveyed to the pur-
chaser in separate parts or parcels, by different
deeds or instruments, the purchase or consi-
deration money shall be divided and apportion-
ed in such manner as the parties shall think fit,
so that a distinct price or consideration for
each separate part or parcel may be set forth
in or upon the principal or only deed or instru-
ment of conveyance relating thereto; which
shall be charged with the said ad-valorem duty
in respect of the price or consideration money
therein set forth.

And where any lands or other property, con

tracted to be purchased by two or more persons jointly, or by any person for himself and others, or wholly for others, at one entire price for the whole, shall be conveyed, in parts or parcels, by separate deeds or instruments, to the persons for whom the same shall be purchased, for distinct parts or shares of the purchase money; the principal or only deed or instrument of conveyance, of each separate part or parcel, shall be charged with the said ad-valorem duty, in respect of the sum of money therein specified as the consideration for the same. But if separate parts or parcels of such lands or other property shall be conveyed to or to the use of or in trust for different persons, in and by one and the same deed or instrument, then such deed or instrument shall be charged with the said ad-valorem duty, in respect of the aggregate amount of the purchase or consideration monies therein mentioned to be paid or agreed to be paid for the lands or property thereby conveyed.

SCHEDULE.

CONVEYANCE-continued.

And where any person having contracted for the
purchase of any lands or other property, but
not having obtained a conveyance thereof, shall
contract to sell to any other person, and the
same shall in consequence be conveyed imme-
diately to the sub-purchaser; the principal or
only deed or instrument of conveyance shall be
charged with the said ad valorem duty, in re-
spect of the purchase or consideration money
therein mentioned to be paid, or agreed to be
paid, by the sub-purchaser.

And where any person, having contracted for the
purchase of any lands or other property, but
not having obtained a conveyance thereof, shall
contract to sell the whole or any part or parts
thereof, to any other person or persons, and the
same shall in consequence be conveyed, by the
original seller, to different persons, in parts or
parcels, the principal or only deed or instru-
ment of conveyance of each part or parcel
thereof, shall be charged with the said ad-va-
lorem duty, in respect only of the purchase or
consideration money, which shall be therein
mentioned to be paid or agreed to be paid for
the same, by the person or persons to whom or
to whose use, or in trust for whom the convey-
ance shall be made, without regard to the
amount of the original purchase-money.

And in all cases of such sub-sales as aforesaid,

the sub-purchasers, and the persons imme-
diately selling to them, shall be deemed and
taken to be the purchasers and sellers, as to the
ad valorem duties on conveyances on the sale
of property.

But where any sub-purchaser shall take an actual
conveyance of the interest of the person imme-
diately selling to him, which shall be charge-
able with the said ad valorem duty in respect of
the purchase or consideration money paid or
agreed to be paid by him, and shall be duly
stamped accordingly; any deed or instrument
of conveyance to be afterwards made to him,

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