Section 33.

Sections 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56

See Mortgage, &c.

Section 57.

See Mortgage, &c., and sections 65, 66.

Sections 62. 63, 64.

Exemptions.

Bond given by the parent or friends of any lunatic for the main-
tenance of such lunatic in any asylum for the relief or cure of
lunacy.

Bond given by any person on obtaining letters of administration.
Bond given pursuant to an Act of Parliament or by direction of the
Collector of Customs* in and for the Colony of Queensland, or any
of his officers, upon or with relation to any duty of Customs for
or in respect of any goods, wares, or merchandise exported or
shipped to be exported from the said Colony or imported into the
said Colony. And also any bond given as aforesaid for or in
relation to any other matter or thing in connection with the
levy and collection of duties of Customs in the said Colony.
Renewal of any such bond by reason of the death or insolvency of
the sureties, or either of them, or otherwise.

CHARTER PARTY

When the charter does not amount to £20

When it amounts to more than £20 and less than £100
When it exceeds £100

...

...

Duty.

£ s. d.

...

0 10 0 015 0 100

CONVEYANCE or TRANSFER on sale of any share or shares in the stock or
funds of any company or corporation-

For every £10, and also for any fractional part of £10 of the then
value of shares or stock transferred

CONVEYANCE OF TRANSFER on sale of any property (except such shares
or stock as aforesaid, and runs or stations held under lease or promise
of lease or license from the Crown, or any interest therein)-

Where the amount or value of the consideration for the sale does
not exceed £50

Exceeds £50 and does not exceed £100

Exceeds £100-For every £100, and also for any fractional part
of £100 of such amount or value

†Proviso.

Provided that upon a conveyance or transfer of any mortgaged
property from the mortgagor to the mortgagee, the mortgagee
shall pay duty at the foregoing rates and in accordance with the
provisions of section fifty-two of this Act, but shall be allowed a
rebate thereon to the amount of the mortgage duty paid in
respect of the mortgage.

Exemptions.

All conveyances or transfers of lands to the Government for public

purposes.

Any grant from the Crown under the hand of the Governor, for the
time being, of the Colony of Queensland, to any purchaser of
Crown lands in Queensland.

Transfer under the Gold Fields Acts or Mineral Lands Acts of a
claim or share in a claim where the consideration paid does not
exceed £50.

CONVEYANCE or TRANSFER, by way of security, of any property (except
such shares or stock as aforesaid) or of any security.

CONVEYANCE or TRANSFER of any kind not hereinbefore described
DEED of any kind whatsoever not described in this Schedule
DEPOSIT of title-deeds.

LEASE OF AGREEMENT for a LEASE or any written document for the
tenancy or occupancy of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments,
the following duties in respect of the rent at the rate per annum-
Where the rent shall not exceed £50 at the rate per annum
Where the same shall exceed £50 and not exceed £100
Above £100, for every fractional part of £100

0 0 6

076 0 15 0

015 0

0.10 0

0 10 0

026

050

050

Customs are now under the control of the Commonwealth.

+ Proviso inserted by section 5 of the Amendment Act of 1904, infra.

For every transfer or cancellation of any lease (other than
a transfer of any run or station held under lease or
promise of lease or license from the Crown, or of any interest
therein) one-half the amount originally paid, or in the case of
leases made prior to the passing of this Act, one-half the
amount which would have been paid thereon had they been
made subsequent to the passing of this Act.

MORTGAGE of stock or marketable security, under hand only.

MORTGAGE, BOND, and COVENANT

(1) Being the only or principal or primary security for the payment or repayment of money

Not exceeding £50

For every additional £50, and also for any fractional part
of £50

...

(2) Transfer or assignment of any mortgage. bond, or covenant, or of
any money or stock secured by any such instrument-

For every £50, and also for any fractional part of £50 of the
amount transferred or assigned, exclusive of interest
which is not in arrear

And also where any further money is added to the
money already secured

026

026

013

The same duty as a

principal security for
such further money.

(3) Re-conveyance, release, or discharge of any such security as aforesaid, or of the benefit thereof, or of the money thereby secured

POLICIES OF INSURANCE

Upon any policy or instrument of guarantee or indemnity against
loss or damage by fire or other casualty to any property on
land-

For every £100 or fractional part of £100 insured for any
period exceeding six months

For every £100 or fractional part of £100 insured for any
period not exceeding six months

Upon any time policy or instrument of guarantee or indemnity
whereby any insurance is made upon any ship or vessel, or upon
any goods, merchandise, or other property on board of any ship
or vessel, or upon the freight thereof, for any period or voyage,
for every £100 or every fractional part of £100

For every renewal

Upon any policy of insurance on wool, tallow, skins, meats, or sugar to be carried both on sea and land

Upon any policy or instrument of guarantee or indemnity against accident or fidelity or want of honesty, for every £100 or any fractional part of £100

026

010

006

0 03
0 03

003

0 1 0
10

Upon all other policies, for every £100 or fractional part of £100... 0
Exemptions.

Life policies issued under the Act 29 Vic. No. 18.*
Life policies not exceeding £50.

Policies effected and expressed to be effected by way of re-insurance.
Cover notes and interim receipts issued pending inspection and
acceptance of any risk or issue of policy.

PROMISSORY NOTE.

RECEIPT

+Given for or upon the payment of money

Amounting to one pound or upwards, but less than two pounds
Amounting to two pounds or upwards, but less than fifty pounds 0 0 2
Amounting to fifty pounds or upwards, but less than one hundred
pounds

n 1

003

Amounting to one hundred pounds or upwards, for every one
hundred pounds or fraction of one hundred pounds

006

See Agreement and section 34.

Sections 65, 66, 67, 68, 69.

Sections 46.

47, 48.

See Bill of
Exchange.
Sections 70,

71.

The Government Annuities Act of 1965," title Annuities, Government.
Substituted for the original provision by section 4 (3) of the Amendment Act of 1904.

See

Conveyance on Sale.

See Mortgage, &c.

61.

Exemptions.

Receipts given for or upon the payment of money to or for the use
of Her Majesty.

Receipts endorsed upon any instrument duly stamped under this Act
acknowledging the receipt of the consideration money therein
expressed.

Receipt given for money deposited in any bank to be accounted for.
All receipts for money withdrawn by depositors from the Government
Savings Banks.

All receipts or discharges given by any seaman, labourer, or menial
servant for the payment of wages.

RELEASE OF RENUNCIATION of any property, or any right or interest in
any property-

Upon a sale.

By way of security.

In any other case

...

0 10 0

REQUEST for the registration or the entering of any instrument under the provisions of the Real Property Acts not otherwise stamped ... 0 26 Sections 59, 60, SETTLEMENT—Any instrument whether voluntary or upon any good or valuable consideration other than a bona fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any definite and certain principal sum of money (whether charged or chargeable on lands or other hereditaments or not, or to be laid out in the purchase of lands or other hereditaments or not), or any definite and certain amount of stock or any security is settled or agreed to be settled in any manner whatsoever

Section 55.

For every £100, and also for any fractional part of £100 of the
amount or value of the property settled or agreed to be settled 0 5 0

Exemption.

Instrument of appointment relating to any property in favour of
persons specially named or described as the objects of a power of
appointment where duty has been duly paid in respect of the
same property upon the settlement creating the power, or the
grant of representation of any will or testamentary instrument
creating the power.

TRANSFER of any run or station held under lease or promise of lease or
license from the Crown, or of any interest therein, where the declared
value of such property or interest, or the value thereof assessed as
in this Act provided, shall not exceed £100

And where such value shall exceed £100, then for every £100
and any fractional part of £100

Exemption.

Any transfer from the mortgagee to the mortgagor of any run or
station held under lease or promise of lease or license from the
Crown, or of any interest therein.

0 10 0

0 10 0

4 EDW. VII. No. 14, 1904. Stamp Act Amendment.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

I, A.B., make oath that to the best of my knowledge and belief the average amount of the Promissory Notes payable to the bearer on demand (commonly called "Bank Notes") of the above bank in circulation which were in circulation before the day of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, for the quarter one thousand eight hundred and is pence. And that the above bank has [or has Bank Notes since the

from the pounds,

to the shillings, not] issued or circulated

and

day of

to the

one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and that the average amount of such
last-mentioned notes in circulation for the quarter from the
one thousand eight hundred and

is

[See section

58.]

pounds,

shillings,

THE STAMP ACT AMENDMENT ACT OF 1904.

An Act to Amend "The Stamp Act, 1894," so far as relates to Duties 4 Edw. VII. Payable upon Receipts, and to make further provision for ensuring

the payment of the said Duties, and for other purposes.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

W

[ASSENTED TO 14TH DECEMBER, 1904.]

VE Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

No. 14.

THE STAMP ACT AMENDMENT ACT OF 1904.

Preamble.

1. This Act may be cited as The Stamp Act Amendment Act of 1904," and shall be Short title, read as one with The Stamp Act, 1891,"* hereinafter called the Principal Act. This construction, Act shall commence and take effect on and from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

and

comm.encement of Act.

2 to 5.t

STANDARD TIME.
See TIME.

STATE AID DISCONTINUANCE.

+ Sections 2 to 5 amended the Principal Act, supra, as follows:-Section 2 enacted section 314: section 3 substituted a section for section 45; section 4 repealed the Amendment Act of 1993 and amended section 71 and the Schedule (Receipt); and section 5 amended the Schedule (Conveyance or Transfer on Sale).

THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS DEATHS AND
MARRIAGES ACT OF 1855.

19 Vic. No. 34. An Act for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages.t

THE

REGISTRATION

OF BIRTHS DEATHS AND MARRIAGES ACT OF 1855.

Construction of
terms.
[Schedule A.]

General registry office.

Registrar-
General.

Registry districts.

District registrars.

Substitutes on liness, &c.

[ASSENTED TO 3RD DECEMBER, 1855.]

E it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales

thereof as follows

1. The words in the first column of the schedule hereto marked A whenever used in this Act shall respectively bear the meanings expressed and set against them respectively in the second column of the same schedule.

2. The Governor may establish by notice in the Gazette an office in the city of Sydney§ for registering all births marriages and deaths in the colony to be called the General Registry for New South Wales"§ and may appoint a fit person to be called the "Registrar-General" for performing the duties by this Act imposed upon him.

3. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may for the purposes of this Act by proclamation in the Gazette at any time before the first day of March next divide the colony into such and so many registry districts as he shall think fit one of them being the registry district of Sydney§ and may in like manner by any subsequent proclamation from time to time alter such division.

4. The Governor may from time to time appoint such persons as he shall think fit to be district registrars and assistant district registrars for such districts respectively except for the district of Sydneys the office of district registrar for which shall merge and be vested in the Registrar-General.

5. In case of unavoidable absence of the Registrar-General or of any district registrar from illness or other cause the Governor may appoint by writing under his hand to be notified in the Gazette a fit person to

As to the power of the Commonwealth Statistician to collect statistics, see the Common-
wealth Census and Statistics Act 1905 (No. 15 of 1905).
As to State statistical officers furnishing information to the Chief Electoral Officer of the
Commonwealth, see the Commonwealth Representation Act 1905 (No. 11 of 1905), s. 5.

The provisions of this Act are neither repealed nor otherwise affected by anything contained in The Infant Life Protection Act of 1905" (5 Edw. VII. No. 19), s. 17, title Children.

For provision as to correction of entries by an officiating minister, see "The Forgery Act of 1833" (4 Wm. IV. No. 4), s. 3, title Criminal Law. As to registration of illegitimate children after marriage of the parents, see The Legiti mation Act of 1899" (63 Vic. No. 11), s. 7, title Marriage and Divorce.

I Short title given, 3 Edw. VII. No. 10, s. 8 (1), title Acts.

(31 Vic. No. 23), s. 36, title Supreme Court.

As to the appointment and powers of Deputy Registrar, see "The Marriage Law Amendment Act of 1870" (34 Vic No. 8), ss. 1 and 2, title Marriage and Divorce.

Preamble repealed, 8 Edw. VII. No. 18, s. 2, title Acts.