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SCHEDULE, PART I.	Duty.
APPRENTICESHIP and CLERKSHIP—continued		£	s.	d.
Where there shall be any such valuable Consideration as aforesaid moving to the new Master or Mistress, exclusive of any Part of the Consideration to the former Master or Mistress which may be returned or given or transferred to the new Master or Mistress	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Such and like duty in proportion to the Amount or Value of such new Consideration only as is before charged on any original Indenture of Apprenticeship
And where there shall be no such new Consideration, if the Indenture or other Instrument shall not contain more than 1,080 Words		0	15	0
And if the same shall contain more than that Quantity		1	10	0
And where there shall be Duplicates or Two Parts of any such Indenture or other Instrument relating to any such Apprentice, Clerk, or Servant as aforesaid, each Part shall be charged with the Duty before-mentioned, in all Cases where the same shall not exceed Thirty Shillings ; and where the same shall exceed that Sum, only one Part shall be charged with the said ad valorem Duty, or Duty in proportion to the Consideration, and the other Part shall be charged with a Duty of		1	10	0
Note.—And the Part bearing the ad valorem or higher Duty shall belong to and be kept by the Apprentice, Clerk, or Servant, or some Person on his or her Behalf upon his or her being first placed out; and in case of any subsequent placing out, by Assignment or otherwise, the Part bearing the ad valorem Duty on that Occasion (if any) shall belong to and be kept by the former Master or Mistress, or his or her Representatives, or by the Apprentice, Clerk, or Servant, or some Person on his or her Behalf; and in each of the said Cases the other Part bearing the lower Duty hereby charged thereon shall belong to and be kept by the original Master or Mistress, or the new Master or Mistress, as the Case may be; and the same shall be respectively received in Evidence accordingly.
'Exemptions from the preceding and all other Stamp Duties.
Indentures or other Instruments for placing out poor Children Apprentices, by or at the sole Charge of any Parish or Township, or by or at the sole Charge of any Public Charity, or pursuant to the Act of the 32d Year of his Majesty's Reign, for the further Regulation of Parish Apprentices :
And all Assignments of such poor Apprentices; provided there shall be no such valuable Consideration as aforesaid given to the new Master or Mistress, other than what may have been or shall be given by any Parish or Township, or by any Public Charity.
ARTICLES of CLERKSHIP, or Contract, whereby any Person shall first become bound to serve as a Clerk, in order to his Admission as an Attorney or Solicitor,
in any of His Majesty's Courts at Westminster		110	0	0
in any of the Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales, or of the Counties Palatine of Chester, Lancaster, and Durham ; or in any other Court of Record in England, holding Pleas, where the Debt or Damage amounts to Forty Shillings		55	0	0
And for any Counterpart or Duplicate of any such Articles or Contract for Clerkship		1	10	0