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-NEW ACTS OF THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE. 
Being an Analyfis of all Ads of General Importance, pafed during the laft 
Sefion of Parliament, 44. Geo. LI. 
The Editors having in the lafi Number of. 
the Monthly Magazine concluded their 
Axalyf s of the very voluminous Acts 
. paffed in the late Seffion of Parhament, 
43 Geo. 3. they now intend, i like 
Manner, to give a compendious Abfiract 
of the feveral public Aéts pafed in the 
laft Seffion, viz. 44 Geo. 3... 
¢¢ An Aé to repeal the feveral Duties under 
the Commiffioners for managing the Du- 
“ties upon ftamped Vellum, Parchment, 
and Paper, in Great Britain, and to grant 
mew and additional Duties in lieu thereof. 
43 Geo. 3, Cap. 98.*” (Paffed July 23, 
804.) 
ROM and after October 10, 1804, 
the ducies and drawbacks under the 
care of the Commiffioners of Stamps fhail 
ceafe; and from and after Oétober 10, 
304, the duties and drawbacks in the 
annexed (chedules fhall be paid and allow- 
ed; and the feveral duties and drawbacks 
are to be paid and allowed as former du- 
ties and drawbacks; and provilions of 
former Aéts, except where altered, are to 
extend to this Aét; and perfons counter- 
feiting the ftamps, gcc. are guilty of felony 
without clergy. 
And from and after O&ober 10, 1804, 
no actions for penalties fhall be com- 
menced but in the name of the Attorney 
General in England, and Advocate for 
Scotland, or fome officer of the ftamp 
duties. ; 
Alfo no fingle inftrument, liable to only 
one !pecific duty, fhall be chargeable under 
two or more ditin& denominations. 
DUTIES IN THE SCHEDULE, TO WHICH 
THE ACT REFERS.T 
New COMMERCIAL STAMPS, f9 com- 
mence from and after Odiober 10, 
1804. 
Promiffory Note for the payment of 
money to the bearer on demand (which 
* The new Stamp Aét being of the mo% 
immediate and general importance is here given 
in the firft inftance in preference to the other 
As of the lait feffion, which will appear in 
the future numbers of this Magazine in the 
order and feries in which they were pafled. 
+ The new claufes relating to particular 
articles upon which duties are impoted by this 
{chedule will be given at the conclufion 
of the account of the new duties in a future 
Bumber, 
may, within three years after the date, 
but not at a later period, be re-iffued after 
payment at any place) where the fum fhall 
not exceed one pound and one fhilling 
—3d. 
Where. the fum fhall exceed one pound 
and one fhilling, and not two Bone 
and two fhillings—6d. 
Where the fum thall exceed two pounds 
and/two fhillings, and not five pounds 
and five fhillings—od. 
Where the fum thall exceed five pounds 
and five fhillings, and not twenty pounds 
——I3s. 
~ Promiffory Note by the Bank of Scot. 
land or Royal Bank of Scotiand, or the 
Britifh Linen Company, payable to the 
bearer on demand, which may within three 
years after the dare be re-iffued after pay- 
ment where the fam amounts to and fhall 
not exceed one hundred pounds—és. 
Bill of Exchange, Draft, Order, or 
Promiffory or other Note, payable to the 
bearer on demand, where the {um fhalk 
amount to forty fhillings, and’ Mall not 
exceed five pounds and five fhillings—8d. 
—otherwife than to the beerer on demand, 
where the fum fhall amount to forty fhil- 
lings, and fhall not exceed five pounds 
five fhillings—ss. 
Bill of Exchange, Draft, Order, or 
Promiffory or other Noie, for the pay- 
ment of money, where the fum fhall exe 
ceed five pounds and five Guiles, and 
not thirty pounds—1s, 6d. 
Exceeding thirty pounds, and not fifty 
pounds—2s. 
Exceeding fifty pounds, and not one 
hundred pounds—js. 
Exceeding one hundred pounds, and 
not two hundred pounds—as. 
' Exceeding two hundred pounds, and 
not five hundred pounds—ss. 
Exceeding five hundred pounds, and 
not one thoufand pounds—7s. 6c. 
Exceeding one thoufand pounds—zros, 
Foreign Sill of Exchange, drawn in 
fets, where the fum fhail not-exceed one 
hundred pounds, for each bill in each fet 
—Is. 
Exceeding one hundred pounds, and 
not two hundred pounds—zs. 
Exceeding two hundred pounds, and 
not five hundred pounds—+4s. 
Exceeding five hundred pounds, and 
not one thoufand pounds—as. 
cane one thouland pounds— 65s, 
ae 2 Exemptionse 
