COMMUNICATION WITH JAMAICA. 



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The alienation and management of property incurs the 

 following government expenses : 



Every mortgage for £200, pays a stamp duty of £l ; 

 a mortgage for £1,000, pays £4 ; for £3,500, pays £10 ; 

 and for £5,000, pays £15. 



A lease, where the yearly rent is less than £100, pays 

 a stamp duty of 10s; when over £200 and under £300 f 

 it pays £l ; where it exceeds £1,000, it pays £3. 



Leases of waste and uncultivated lands, to the poor or 

 laboring classes, for terms not beyond three lives, or ninety- 

 nine years, are exempt from these duties. 



Powers of attorney pay the following stamp duties : 



To recover debts, or for the sale of property, £1 



To manage a pen, plantation or sugar estate, £3. 



If only a place of residence, moorland, or both, £l 6s, 



Any other kind of power, £1. 



OCEAN STEAMERS. 



The facilities of communication and correspondence 

 between Jamaica and New York, have been greatly in- 

 creased within the past two years. There are now four 

 first class steamers, of from 1,200 to 2,000 tons, running 

 from New York to Chagres, all of which stop, both going 

 out and returning, at Kingston. The line that was first 

 established, owed its existence to the enterprise of J. 

 Howard & Son, shipping merchants, of New York city, 



