The stamp duties, compiled from the statutes. By the compiler of the inventory used at the Stamp office (O. Turner).

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Page 37 - Provided always, that nothing therein before contained shall be construed to prevent any of the said courts from re-admitting any such person, on payment to the commissioners, of the duty accrued since the expiration of the last certificate obtained by such person, and such further sum of money, by way of penalty, as the said court shall think fit to order and direct.
Page 37 - It provides, that every person admitted, sworn, enrolled, or registered in any of the said courts as aforesaid, who, from and after the said tint day of Xbvemter, shall neglect to obtain his certificate thereof, in the manner before directed, for the space of one whole year, shall from thenceforth be incapable of practising in his own name, or in the name of any other person, in any of the said courts, by virtue of such admission, entry, enrolment, or register; and the admission, &c. of such person...
Page 35 - Plaintiff, or to the hands of any other person or persons, by his order or for his use, or which without his wilful default might have been received.
Page 37 - ... certificate thereof, in the manner before directed, for the space of one whole year, shall from thenceforth be incapable of practising in his own name, or in the name of any other person, in any of the said courts, by virtue of such admission, entry, enrolment, or register; and the admission, &c. of such person in any of the said courts, shall be from thenceforth null and void...
Page 19 - That any person or persons having or taking the burthen of the execution of any will or other testamentary instrument, or the administration of the personal estate of any person deceased, may from time to time pay, deliver, or otherwise dispose of any legacy, or any part of any legacy, or make distribution of any part of the residue of any personal estate, on payment, from time to time, of such proportions of the duty hereby imposed as shall accrue in respect of such part of such personal estate...
Page 38 - ... specified therein, or double the amount of the further or increased stamp duty which would have been payable upon any such inventory or inventories exhibited, in respect of the estate or effects so omitted therein as aforesaid, as the case may require ; which double duty shall be deemed and taken to be a debt to His Majesty, his heirs...
Page 35 - November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven, every person admitted, sworn, enrolled, or registered, a solicitor, attorney, notary, proctor, agent, or procurator, in any of his Majesty's courts at Westminster, or in any ecclesiastical court, or in any of the courts of admiralty, or Cinque Ports, the great sessions in Wales, or in any courts in the counties palatine, or in any other court in that part of Great Britain called England, holding pleas, where the debt or damage shall amount to...
Page 15 - for encouraging and disciplining such corps, or companies of men, as shall voluntarily enrol themselves, for the defence of their counties, towns, or coasts, or for the general defence of the kingdom, during the present war.
Page 26 - Receipts or discharges given by any officer, seaman, marine, or soldier, or their representatives respectively, for or on account of any wages, pay, or pension due from the navy office, army pay office, or ordnance office. Receipts or...
Page 35 - November, 1797, every person admitted, sworn, enrolled, or registered a lolicitor, attorney, notary, proctor, agent, or procurator, in any of His Majesty's courts at Westminster, or in any ecclesiastical court, or in any of the courts of admiralty, or cinque ports, the great sessions in Wales, or in any courts in the counties palatine, or in any other court in that r part of Great Britain, called England, holding pleas, where the debt or damage shall amount to 405.

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