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GEORGIA GAZETTE.
Number 109.
ABSTRACT of the Resolutions of the Honourable the
House of Commons for imposing a Stamp Duty in the Brit ijh
colonies and plantations in America, from the Votes, pp.
124—131.
Jovis, Feb. 7, 1765. — When
A Bill for the said purpose was ordered to be brought in.
Upon every (kin or piece of vellum or parchment, or every
(heet or piece of paper on which lhall be ingrolfed, writ
ten, or printed, any
DECLARATION, plea, replication, rejoinder, de
murrer, or other pleading in any court of law, or copy
thereof, three pence.
Special bail, and appearance upon such bail, two fillings.
Petition, bill, anfwcr, claim, plea, replication, rejoin
der, demurrer, or other pleading in any court of chancery or
equity, one filling andfixpence.
Copies of ditto in ditto, threepence.
Monition, libel, anfwcr, allegation, inventory or renunci
ation, in the court of ordinary, Sec. one filling.
Copies of ditto in ditto, fix pence.
Donation, presentation, collation, or institution of or to
any benefice, or any writ or infirument for the like purpose
—Regifier, entry, tettimonial or certificate of any degree,
taken in any university, academy, college or seminary of
learning in the colonies, two pounds .
Monition, libel, claim, anfwcr, allegation, information,
letter of request, execution, renunciation, inventory or other
pleading in any admiralty court, one filling.
Copiej of ditto in ditto, fix pence.
Appeals, writs of error, exemplifications of any record or
proceeding of courts, See. (except removal of proceedings
from a single juilice of peace) ten fillings. *
Writ of covenant for levying fines, writ of entry for fuf
fcring a common recovery, or attachment, ifiued out of or
returnable into any court, five fillings.
Judgment, decree, fentcnce or dilmiflion, or any record of
nifi prius or pofiea, four fillings.
Affidavit, common bail or appearance, interrogatory, de-
Sofition, rule, order or warrant of any court, dedimus potc
atem, capias, fubpeena, summons, compulsory citation,
commission, recognizance, or other writ, process ormandate,
ifiuing out of or returnable into any court or any office be
longing thereto, or any other proceeding therein whatsoever,
or any copy thereof, or of any record not before mentioned
(excepting warrants relating to criminal matters and pro
ceedings thereon) one filling.
License, appointment or admifiion, of any counfellor, so
licitor, attorney, advocate or pro&or, to pradtife in any
court, or of any notary, ten pounds.
Note or bill of lading for any kind of goods, wares or
merchandize, to be exported, or any cocket or clearance
granted, four pence.
Letters of mart or commi(lions to privateers, one pound.
Grant, appointment or admifiion to any publick office for
one year or less, of or above twenty pounds a year in salary,
fees and perquilites (except commi (lions of officers in the ar
my, navy, ordnance or militia, and justices of the peace) ten
Jh tilings.
Liberty, privilege or franchife under the colony seal, or of
the governor alone, or in conjunction with the council or
ftliembly, fix pounds.
License for retailing spirituous liquors, one pound.
License for retailing wine, to any person who has not ta
ken a license for spirituous liquors, four pounds.
Ditto, to such as have license for spirituous liquors, three
founds.
Probate of wills, letters of adminiilration or of guardian
ship for any eftatc above twenty pounds value, on the con
tinent, Bermuda and the Bahama lflands, five fillings.
Ditto in all other parts of British America, ten fillings.
Bond fer securing any fumon the continent, Bermuda and
h Bahama Ifiands, not exeteding \o\. fix pence, from 10 to
201. one fillings from 20 to 401. one filling andfix pence.
THURSDAY, May 2, 1765.
Order or warrant for surveying land, not exceeding 100
acres, fix pence ; from 100 to 200 acres, one filling ; from
200 to 320 acres, and in proportion for every succeeding
320 acres, one Jbilling and fix pence. ,
Original grant, deed, methe conveyance, or other infim
ment for conveying land on the continent, Bermuda and Ba
hama Ifiands, not exceeding 100 acres, one filling and fix
pence', from 100 to 200 acres, two fillings ; from 200 to 320
acres, and in proportion for every succeeding 320 acres, two
fillings andfix pence.
Original grant, &c. of land in any other of the British
dominions in America, not exceeding 100 acres, three fiU
hngs j from 100 to 200 acres, four fiuings ; from 200 to 320
acres, and in proportion for every succeeding 320 acres, fi-ve
fillings.
Grant, appointment or admifiion to any publick office or
employment, not before mentioned, on the continent, Ber
muda and Bahama Ifiands, above the value of 201. per annum
in salary, fees or perquisites, or an exemplification of the fame
(except commiflions in the army, navy or ordnance, or mi
litia, or jufiices of the peace) four pounds.
Ditto in all other parts of Britilh America, fis r pounds.
Indenture, lease, conveyance, contrast, stipulation, bill of
sale, charter party, protefi, articles of apprenticeftiip or co
venant (except for the hire of servants not apprentices, and
such other matters as are before mentioned to be charged)
two fillings andfix pence.
Warrant or order for auditing any publick accounts, be
neficial warrant, order, grant or certificate under any pub
lick seal, or seal of any governor without the council or ailem
bly, or of any proprietor or publick officer not before men
tioned; or any paflport or lct-pafs, surrender of office or
policy of aflurance (except warrants or orders for the service
of the navy, army, ordnance or militia, and grants of office
under 201. per annum in salary, fees and perquisites) five
fillings.
Notarial a&, bond, deed, letter of attorney, procuration,
mortgage, release, or other obligatory infiruments not be
fore mentioned, two fillings and three pence.
Regifier, entry or inrollmcntof any grant, deed, or other
infirument whatsoever before mentioned, throe pence.
Ditto of ditto not before mentioned, two fillings.
Upon every pack of playing cards fold or used in
America, one filling.
Every pair of dice fold or used in ditto, ten filling*.
Every pamphlet, and upon every news-paper containing
publick news, intelligence or occurrences, contained in half
a feet, or any less piece of paper, ene halfpenny ; from half
a (heet to one Jbeet, one penny.
Every pamphlet or paper larger than one fficct, and not
exceeding fix fitttt in odavo or less page, twelve fats in
quarto, or twenty feets in folio, after the rate of two fillings
for every iheet of any kind of paper which (hall be contained
in one printed copy thereof.
Every advertisement in any gazette, news-paper or other
paper or pamphlet, two f tilings.
Every almanack or kalendar for one year or any less time,
written or printed on one fide only of any onejheet, (kin or
piece of paper, parchment or vellum, t<wo pence.
Every other ditto for one year, four pence ; and the fame
duties to be paid yearly for every almanack calculated to
serve for several years.
Any sum not exceeding 501. given as apprentice fee for
any clerk or apprentice, Jix pence in the pound; any sum
exceeding 501. given as above, one filling the pound.
Every (kin or piece of vellum or parchment, or (heet or
piece of paper, on which any infirument, proceeding or o
ther matter or thing aforefaid, (hall be ingrofied, written or
printed, in any other than the Euglijb language, Double the
amount of tbe'rejpedlive duties before mentioned.
The produce of the said duties to be paid into the receipt
of his Majefiy’s Exchequer, and there reserved, to be from
time to time difpofedol by parliament, towards furtherda
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