| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...any cocket or clearance granted within the said colonies and plantations, a stamp duty of four pence. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of pnpor, on which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, letters of mart or commission * for private... | |
| Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connecticut - 1858 - 808 pages
...acted upon hastily, but to be debated, revised, and perfected. The proposed impost was to be laid upon "every skin, or piece of vellum, or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper," on which should be engraved or written any pleadings in courts, any deed, lease, bond, or policy of... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...any court of law within the British colonies and plantations in America, a stamp duty of three pence. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or pieco of paper, on which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, any special bail, and appearance... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...council and assembly, within the British colonies and plantations in America, a stamp duty of nix pence. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, any such order or warrant for surveying or setting... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...taxes, one of the main pillars of the British Con stitution, is evidently founded." 1 It provided that every skin, or piece of vellum, or parchment, or sheet, or piece of paper used for legal purposes, such as bills, bonds, notes, leases, policies of insurance, marriage licenses,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...taxes, one of the main pillars of the British Con stitution, is evidently founded." 1 It provided that every skin, or piece of vellum, or parchment, or sheet, or piece of paper used for legal purposes, such as bills, bonds, notes, leases, policies of insurance, marriage licenses,... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Admiralty - 1864 - 562 pages
...of that Act, "from and after the 5th July 1795, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid for every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet, or piece of paper, upon which any insurance upon any ship or ships shall be engrossed, printed, or written," the stamp... | |
| Sir Joseph Arnould - Average (Maritime law) - 1866 - 628 pages
...1st section grants certain stamp duties (now fixed by the schedule of the 7 Viet. c. 21} to be paid for every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which any insurance upon any ship or ships, gooda or merchandize, or upon any other property or... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 620 pages
...matters. This referred to several distinct instruments upon one piece of parchment; the duty being imposed 'for every skin, or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be engrossed any deed,' &c. ; and it was enacted to prevent fraud, in writing two... | |
| Great Britain - Law - 1873 - 776 pages
...his heirs and successors, the several and respective rates and duties following ; (that is to say), For every skin or piece of vellum ' or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper upon on p*obates of which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, in Great Britain, any probate of... | |
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