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, ia [Feb. J, 
NEW ACTS OF THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE, 
Being an Analyfis of all A&s of General Importance, pafed during the loft 
Sefien of Parliament. 
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“An A for confolidating the Duties on 
Stamped Vellam, Parchment, and Paper, 
in Great Britain.” (Pafled 11th of Av- 
_ guit 1803, Cap. 127.) 
Tis ena&ed that the commiffioners 
for ftamps may provide one new ftamp 
to denote the feveral duties ; that the fe- 
veral rates fhall be confolidated, and only 
one diftiné account of the monies arifing 
thereby be kept. § 1. C. 2. 
«‘ And,whereas, byan A&, 37 Geo. IIT. 
136, it is enacted that it fhall be lawful - 
for the commiflioners or their officers, upon 
payment of the duty and a penalty of 5]. 
te flamp any paper whereupon any infru- 
ment (except bills of exchange or notes) 
thall be written, liable to be tamped with 
a ftamp of a particular denomination, and 
whereon there is a ftamp of a different de- 
nomination, but of an equal or greater 
value: And whereas, it is expedient to 
permit the fame to be done without pay- 
ment of the faid penalty :’? It is, there- 
fore enasted, that it fhall be lawful for the 
commifficne:s, or their officer, to flamp 
any fuch paper (except as aforefaid) 
without payment of the faid penalty of 51. 
yequired by the faid Aét. § 5. 
And every inttvrume:t, although famped 
with any ftamp of greater value than re- 
quired by law, fhail be valid, provided 
juch fiamp fhall be of the denomination 
yequired by law for fuch inftrument. § 6. 
“© An A& to amend an A& paffed in the 
’ Forty-fecond Year of the Reign of His 
prefent Majefty, intituled, An A& to re- 
peal an A&G paffed in the Twenty-fifth 
Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, 
for granting Stamp Duties on certain Me- 
dicines, and for charging other Duties in 
lieu thereof; and tor making efléctual 
Provifion for the better Colleétion of the 
faid Duties. (Pailea July 4, 1803. Cap. 
73-) 
If any perfon who fhall receive from any 
proprietor, or his agent, any article what- 
ever, fubje&t to duty, for the purpo’e of 
felling tie fame again without the label, 
cand fhali not within ten days return the 
fame, or within that time give information 
thereof te the commiffioners at the head- 
office in Someriet place, and depofit fuch 
article with the neareft difiributor of 
fiamps, he fhall farfeit twenty-pounds. 
§ 2. | 
And, upon the outfide of all parcels, 
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in which fhall be contained one dozen or 
more of packets, boxes, bottles, pots, phials, 
or other inclofures, containing any artiele 
fubject to duty, fent by any original ven- 
der, or any agent, to any retail-vendcr, 
by any public conveyance, or which fhail 
be about to be exported, the word ** Me- 
dicines”’ fhall be written; and alfo the 
name of fuch original vender, and of the 
perfon fending or exporting the fame, if 
not fuch original vender thereof ; and any 
officers of the cuftoms or excife, or any 
perion appointed by the  commiilioners 
for ftamps, by authority under ‘he hand 
of any magiftrate cr juice of the peace, 
en information gtven to, and oath, that 
there is _reafon to fufpedt that fuch parcel 
contains fuch articles not properly labelled, 
to open fuch parcels, and ‘examine-if the 
proper labels are affixed ; and if fuch 
labels are not affixed theretc, to feize the 
fume, and fend the fame to the commiffic- _ 
ners at the head-cfiice, who are to reward 
the cficer. § 3. Oe 
It fhall not be lawfel for any perfon 
whatever to profecute any aétion, bill, 
plaint, or information, againft any perfon, 
er to preceed before any jultice or magif- 
trate in a fummary way, for the recovery 
of any fine incurred oy the former A&,/ 
unlefs the fame be commenced in the name 
of the Attorney General, and by his au- 
thority, or by and in the name of fome 
officer appointed by the commiffioners. 
§ 4. 
«¢ An A& for granting to his Majefty until 
the Sixth Day of May next, after the Ka- 
tification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, 
a Contribution on the Profits arifing from 
Property, Profefiions, Trades, and Offices. 
(Pafled Auguft 11, 1803 Cap.122.)) 
Of this verv voluminous Aét it is ime 
poilible for tne Edicors, corfiltent with the 
veneral plan of the Monthly Magazire, 
to give more than an abftraét detail of the 
duties, the deduétiens, the exemptions, 
the abatements on the ground of jnceme, 
and the abarements in re/peét of children. 
I. Duty on Landlords—For all lands, 
tenements, hereditaments, or heritages, 
there fhall be charged throughout Great 
Britain, in refpect of the property there- 
of, for every 20s. of the annual value, 
thereof, the fum of 1s. and the faid duty 
{hall extend to all manors and mefluages, 
to all quarries“f fine, flaie, limeftone, or 
Let; chalk, 
