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