The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-08 00:00:00

EXCUM DUTY ON LICENBIB TO NELL TEA, &c.
. . . .

S. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Ma-
jesty, there shall be charged end paid on the fineness here-
inafter mentioned, the following duty of excise in lieu of
the duty now payable thereon (that is to say) :—For and
upon any license to be takes out yearly by any person to
trade in or sell coffee, tea, cocoa note, chocolate, or pepper,
in any house rated to the relief of the poor at a sum lees
than 101. par asormr, Led not being within the limits of a
municipal or parliamentary borough, the duty of 2s. 6d.
STAY!' DOTIE3 on LATICR3 OF ATTOILXIT AND PlOlll3.
9. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Ma-
jesty, there shall be charged and paid for and upon the
several matters and things hereinafter mentioned the fol-
lowing stamp duties, in lieu of the stamp duties bow
chargeable thereon respectively (that is to sao:—For
and upon any letter or power of attorney, oommirioo. fac-
tory, mandate, or other instrument in the nature thereof, for
the receipt of dividends or interest of soy of the govern-
ment or parliamentary stocks or feeds, or of the stocks,
funds, or shame of or in any joint stock company, or other
company or socisty whose stocks or funds are divided into
shares, and transferable, if the same shall be for the re-
ceipt of one payment only, le, ; and if the same shall be for
a continuous receipt, or for the receipt of more than one
payment, Sa.

Yor the receipt of any sum of money, or any cheque,
note, or draft for any sum of money Pot exceeding 20/. (ex-
cept in the MOW aforesaid), or any periodical payment
(other than as aforesaid) not exceeding the annual sum of
10/., ss.
. _

For the sole purpcee of appointing or nominating a proxy
to vote at any one meeting of the proprietors or share-
holders of any joint stock or other company, or of the mem•
hen of any nasty or institution, or of the contributors to
the funds thereof, Id.

STAMP DOTE'S OS APPOTSTSZNTS TO 11CCLESIARTISAL
BENIFICgs, &C.
10. That, towards raising the supply granted to her
Majesty, there shall be charged sod paid for and upon the
several matters and things hereinafter mentioned, the fol.
lowing stamp duties, io lieu of the stamp duties now
chargeable thereon respectively (that Is to say) :—For sod
upon any donation or presentation, by whomsoever made,
of or to any ecclesiastical benefice, dignity, or promotion :
Also, for and upon any collation by any archbishop or
bishop, or by say other ordinary or competent autho-
rity, to any ecclesiastical benefice, dignity, or pro-
motion Also for and upon soy institution granted by
soy archbishop, bishop, chases:lm, or other ord• ,or
by any ecclesiastical wart, to any ecclesiastical w-
iles, dignity, or promotion, proceeding upon the petition of
the patron to be himself admitted and instituted, and not
upon a presentation : Also for and upon say nomination by
her Majesty, her heirs or socosmora, or by say other patron,
to any perpetual curacy : Also for and upon any license to
bold a perpetual curacy not proceeding upon a nomination :
Where the not yearly value of any such benefice, dignity,
or perpetual curacy shall not amount to 501.,
717retsbi; same shall amour' to 50/., and not amount to
100/., It ; to 1001. and not to 1501., 2/.; to 1501. sad not to
2001., 31 ; to 2001., sod not to 250/.. U.; to 2501. and not to
3001., 51.; sad when such value shall amount to 3001. or
upward., V.; sod also, for every 1001, Iberia over end
above the first 200/., a further duty of 31.

RAMOS AND PICIARI.
11. net, for sal op= of Loses, to be tikes out by •
hawker or pedlar w travel and trade with man them see
horse or ether beast bearing or drawing Wass, tiers
shall be aborted sad paid for every such hone ar boast ever
and above one, tho sum of four pounds itt addition to the
duty now chargeable as a lionise to • hawk's' sad pedlar
trivia and Ind* with oar such bane oat;.

12. That, ii.wardsnisinithe supply granted to her
Majesty, the ad valorem stamp duties granted and made
payable under the heed of settlement" in the
soWde to the act pared in the 13th and 14th yams of her
Majesty's reign, chapter 97, shall he domed to extend to
and shall be chargeable upon or in respect of any definite
and certain principal sum or rams of money of any denomi-
nation or currency, whether British, foreign, or colonial,
end any definite and cartels share or shares in the stocks or
hinds of any foreign or colonial government, state, corpora-
tion, or company whatsoever, es well as upon or is respect
of the shares, storks, and funds in the rid schedule men-
tioned.

And that where any prinaipel sum of money secured or
contracted for or which may become due or payable
any debenture, policy of upon, insurit covenant,
or contract, be settled or agreed to be sete.d, or such
bond, debenture, policy, covesaat, or contract shall be
settled orittred or transferred by way of settlement, or
shall be so to be, then and in any of such eases the
same shat be deemed to be a settlement of such principal
sum of money, sad shell be chargeable with the said ad
valorem stamp duties on the amount thereof soooediagly.
And that when the subject of any settlement chargeable
with the said duties shall be any share or alarm in any such
stocks or funds as aforesaid, or any sum or sums of money
secured by say foreign or colonial bond, debenture, or
other security, bearing a marketable value in the English
market, then the value of such share or shares, sod of snob
bond, debenture, or other security respectively shall
be ascertained and determined by the average selling
price thereof on the day or on either of the ten days pre-
ceding the day of the date of the deed or instrument of
settlement ; or if no sale shall have taken place within such
ten days, then according to the avenge selling price thereof
on the day of the last preceding sale, and the said ad
valorem duties shall be chargeable on such settlement in
respect of the value so ascertained and determined ; and
the value of any sum or sums of money expressed in coin of
a foreign or colonial denomination or currency, shall be
determined by the current rate of exchange on the day of
the date of the deed or instrument of settlement, and the
said ad valorem duties shall be chargeable in respect of the
vane so determined as lest aforesaid.