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Exemptions —Bills of Exchange, Pro- 
miffory and cther Notes, and Bills iffued 
by the Bank of England, on condition of 
paying yearly 32,000l. 
Drafts and Orders payable on demand 
upon any banker, or perfon acting asa 
banker, within ten miles of the place, at 
which fuch draft fhall be drawn, and 
whieh fhall be exprefied upon fuch draft. 
Bill, Remittance Bill, Certificate, and 
all other Bills, drawn by commuiffioned 
officers, ma: ers or furgeons in the navy, 
for wages or pay, or by the commifiioners 
of the navy, or vidtualling, fick and hurt, 
or tran{por: offices. 
* Receipt, Diicharge, er Acquittance, 
Biven upon payment of Money amounting 
to 2]. and not amounting to 10]l.—2d. 
Amounting to iol. and not to 20l.— 
4d. 
Amounting to 20l. and not to sol.— 
$d. 
Amounting to sol. and not to 10ol.— 
3S. 
Amounting to roo]. and not to 2ool. 
—25. 
Amounting to zoo]. and not to sool. 
Ss >" 4 
/,mounting to sool. and upwards.—5s. 
Any Receipt, Diicharge, or Acquit- 
tance, Nore, Memorandum, or Writing 
whatever, which fhall contain or exprels, or 
in any manner fignify or denote any gene- 
yal acknowledgment of any debt, claim, 
account or demand, being paid, fettled, 
yeceived, accounted for, balanced, dif. 
charged, releafed, or fatisfied, or where- 
by any fum,fhall be acknowiedged to be 
in full, and whether figned or not—ss. 
Exemptions. —Receipt by the Treafurer 
ofthe Navy; any agent on account of 
the pay of the army or ordnance; any of- 
ficer, feaman, or foldier, or their reprefen- 
tative, for wages, pays or penfion. 
Receipts given for the purchafe of any 
fhare in any p\ ablic fteck or fund, or in 
the ftocks of the Bank of England, Eaft 
India Company, or South Sea Company, 
or for the dividends on fuch fhares. Re- 
ceipt for money depofited in the banks of 
Eng! and or Scotland; or in the houfe of 
any banker. 
Receipt written on the back of any bill 
or note, or upon any bill or note cf the 
governor and company of the Bank of 
England, 
Receipt by Deed. 
Letters acknowledging the fafe arrival 
of any bills, notes, or other fecurities for 
moncy. 
Receipt iadorfed on or contained in the 
body of any deed, bond mortgage, or 
New Aéts of the Britifo Legifiature, 44 Geo. 111. 
(Om. ty 
other inftrument, acknowledging the paye 
ment or re-payment of any part of any_ 
principal fum, or any intereft thereupon. 
Receipt for any money payable for 
drawbacks or bounties upon exportation. 
Certificates oi over entry of duties of: 
cuftoms. 
Receipt indorfed on any order, bill, re- 
mittance bill, or certificate, draw by 
commiffioners of the navy, or commif. 
fioned officers, mafters, and furgeons in 
the navy, for wages or pay. 
Receipt indorfed on any bill drawn in- 
puriuance of any A& of Parliament, by 
the commiflioners of the navy, victualling, 
fick and hurt, or tranfport offices, upon 
the treafurer of the navy. 
DEED STAMPs, commencing OCTOBER 
Ir, 1804. 
Deed or other Inftrument of Convey= 
ance, Surrender, Leafe, Releafe, Grant, 
Appointment, Confirmation, Affignment, 
Transfer, Covenant, or any other Deed or 
obligatory Infirument whatever (not other- 
wife charged) enro:led or regiltered, or not, 
upon any number of words not amounting 
to thirty common Jaw fheets (calculated. 
at feventy-two words to each fheet) of 
which any fuch deed or inftrument, as 
above mentioned, together with every 
{chedule, receipt, inftrament, or ether 
matter, put or ecdorfed thereon, or an- 
nexed thereto, thallconfift*. (Except com 
miffions to officers «f yeomanry, cavalry, 
or velunteer infantry, leafes of waite land 
to any poor or labouring man, for not 
more than three lives or 99 years, where 
the fine does not exceed five fhillings, and 
the referved rent one guinea—and policy 
of aflurance on liyes)—1]. 10s. in Scot 
land, xl. 98 
And for every entire fifteen theets, 
above the firft, a further duty of 1]. and 
in Scotland 19s. 
Copy, or attefted Copy, of any fuch 
Deed laft-mentioned for the fecurity or 
ufe of any perfon being a paity to the 
deed, and not having the cuftody of the 
criginal deed, or of any counterpart, or 
where fuch copy fhall be made in lieu of 
fuch original deed upon any number of 
words not amounting to twenty common 
law fheets, of feventy-iwo words to each 
—I108. 
And for every entire quantity of ten 
common Jaw thee: s above the firit ten,a 
further duty of rics. 
Copy of any iuch deed for the feéubieg 
or ufe of any perfon other than the par- 
* See Indentures of Apprenticethip, A- 
gteement under hand only, Award, or Leafe- 
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