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pafled, or, at leaft, before a fufficient title can be given to the 
eftate. 
4. The duty arifing from the fale of buildings, plantations, 
and other conveniences on loan-lands, is 2| per cent, on the 
purchafe money, and muft be paid in the fame manner as the 
laft, on the property being transferred from the feller to the 
purchafer. 
5. The duty on public vendues is 5 per cent, on moveable, 
and 2 per cent, on immoveable property ; of the former, Go- 
vernment receives 3! per cent, and i| per cent, of the latter. 
This is a very important branch of revenue. 
6. Fees received in the Secretary's office are fuch as are paid 
on regiftering the transfer of property, and were form.erly part 
of the emoluments of the colonial Secretary and affiftants. 
They are very trifling. 
7. The import and export duties at the Cape were formerly 
a perquifite of the Fifcal. At the furrender of the colony it 
was found expedient to make fome new regulations with re- 
gard to this branch of revenue. AH goods fhipped in the Bri- 
trifh dominions, to the weftward of the Cape, were allowed 
to be imported duty free ; but others, not fo Ihipped, were liable 
to a duty of 5 per cent, if brought in Brit Ih bottonris, and 10 
per cent, in foreign bot^'oms. And no goods nor merchandize 
of the growth, produce, or manufadure of countries to the 
eaitward of the Cape were allowed to be impoited into, or ex- 
ported 
