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SCHEDULE, PART I.	Duty
		£	s.	d.
ADMISSION of any Person to act as an Attorney, Solicitor, or Proctor, in any Court in England; or as a Sworn Clerk, Side Clerk, Clerk in Court, or other Clerk or Officer in any Court in England, whose Business and Emoluments (like those of an Attorney or Solicitor) shall depend upon his being retained and employed by Clients or Suitors, and shall therefore be wholly uncertain in Amount		20	0	0
Exemptions from the preceding and all other Stamp Duties.
Where any Person, duly admitted an Attorney in either of His Majesty's Courts at Westminster, or in either of the Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales, or of the Counties Palatine of Chester, Lancaster, and Durham, shall be also admitted to act as an Attorney in any other of the said Courts, or in any inferior Court of Law, or as a Solicitor in any Court of Equity, in England, the latter Admission shall be free of Duty:
And where any Person duly admitted a Solicitor in the Court of Chancery or Exchequer at Westminster, or in either of the Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales, or of the Duchy of Lancaster, or of the Counties Palatine of Chester, Lancaster, and Durham, shall be also admitted to act as a Solicitor in any other of the said Courts, or in any inferior Court of Equity, or as an Attorney in any Court of Law in England, the latter Admission shall be free of Duty :
Provided such Attorney or Solicitor shall have paid the proper Stamp Duty on his former Admission, according to the Laws then in force.
But in all Cases not expressly exempted the said Duty is to be paid on every Admission of the same Person.
ADMISSION of any Person to act as a Writer to the Signet, or as a Solicitor, Agent, Attorney, or Procurator, in any Court in Scotland; or as a Clerk or Officer in any Court of Scotland, whose Business and Emoluments (like those of a Solicitor) shall depend upon his being retained and employed by Clients or Suitors, and shall therefore be wholly uncertain in Amount		20	0	0
And where any Person shall be admitted to act as a Solicitor or Agent in the Court of Session, Justiciary, or Commission of Teinds in Scotland, who shall not have served an Apprenticeship for Five Years to a Writer to the Signet, or to a Solicitor or Agent, under regular Articles or Indentures of Clerkship or Apprenticeship, which shall have paid the Stamp Duty payable by Law for the same at the Date thereof; his Admission shall be charged with a further Duty of		55	0	0
And where any Person shall be admitted to act as a Procurator or Solicitor in the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, the Commissary Court at Edinburgh, or any inferior Court in Scotland, who shall not have served an Apprenticeship for Five Years to a Writer to the Signet, or to it Solicitor, Agent, or Procurator, under regular Articles or Indentures of Clerkship or Apprenticeship, which shall have paid the Stamp Duty payable by Law for the same at the Date thereof; his Admission shall be charged with a further Duty of		25	0	0