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SCHEDULE, PART I.	Duty
ADMISSION—continued		£	s.	d.
Register, Entry or Memorandum thereof, in the Court Book, Roll, or Record of such Corporation or Company;
Where the Admission shall be in respect of Birth, Apprenticeship, or Marriage		1	0	0
And where the same shall be upon any other Ground		2	0	0
Exemptions from the preceding and all other Stamp Duties.
The Admissions of Craftsmen or others entering in any Corporation within any Royal Burgh, Burgh of Regality, or Burgh of Barony, in Scotland, incorporated by the Magistrates and Council of such Burgh ; provided such Craftsmen or others shall have been previously admitted Freemen or Burgesses of the Burgh, and have paid the proper Stamp Duty on such Admission, according to the Laws then in force.
ADMISSION to Ecclesiastical Benefices in Scotland. See COLLATION.
ADMISSION or Admittance to Copyhold Lands. See COPYHOLD.
AFFIDAVIT not made for the immediate Purpose of being filed, read,or used in any Court of Law or Equity, for every Sheet or Piece of Paper, Parchment, or Vellum on which the same shall be written or printed		0	2	6
Exemptions from the preceding and all other Stamp Duties.
Affidavits required or authorized by Law to be made before any Justice or Justices c the Peace, or before any Commissioner or Commissioners of any public Board of Revenue, or any of the Officers acting under them, or before any other Commissioner or Commissioners appointed or to be appointed by Act of Parliament.
Affidavits made pursuant to the Statutes for burying in Woollen.
Affidavits which may be required at the Bank of England to prove the Death of any Proprietor of any Share in any of the Stocks or Funds transferrable there, or to identify the Person of any such Proprietor, or to remove any other Impediment to the Transfer of any such Stocks or Funds.
Also all Affidavits relating to the Loss, Mutilation, or Defacement of any Bank Note or Bank Post Bill.
See also the General Exemptions at the End of this Part of the Schedule.
AGREEMENT or Contract, accompanied with a Deposit of Title Deeds, for making a Mortgage, Wadset, or other Security on any Estate or Property therein comprised. See MORTGAGE.
AGREEMENT, or any Minute or Memorandum of an Agreement, made in England under Hand only, or made in Scotland without any Clause of Registration, (and not otherwise charged in this Schedule, nor expressly exempted from all Stamp Duty,) where the Matter thereof shall be of the Value of 20l. or upwards, whether the same shall be only Evidence of a Contract, or obligatory upon the Parties from its being a written Instrument, together with every Schedule, Receipt, or other Matter put or indorsed thereon or annexed thereto;
Where the same shall not contain more than 1080 Words (being the Amount of Fifteen common Law Folios or Sheets of Seventy-two Words each)		0	16