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SCHEDULE, PART I.	Duty.
RECEIPT—continued.		£	s.	d.
Exemptions from the preceding Duties on Receipts.
Receipts exempted from Stamp Duly by any Act or Acts of the present Session relating to the Assessed Taxes.
Receipts or Discharges given by the Treasurer of the Navy for any Money imprested to or received by him for the Service of the Navy.
Receipts or Discharges given by any Agent for Money imprested to him on account of the Pay of the Army or Ordnance.
Receipts or Discharges given by any Officer, Seaman, Marine, or Soldier, or their Representatives respectively, for or on account of any Wages, Pay, or Pension due from the Navy Office, Army Pay Office, or Ordnance Office.
Receipts or Discharges given for the Consideration Money, for the Purchase of any Share in any of the Government or Parliamentary Stocks or Funds, or in the Stocks and Funds of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or of the East India Company or South Sea Company, and for any Dividend paid on any Share of the said Stocks or Funds respectively.
Receipts given for Money deposited in the Bank of England, or in the Bank of Scotland, or Royal Bank of Scotland, or in the Bank of the British Linen Company in Scotland, or in the Hands of any Banker or Bankers, to be accounted for on Demand; provided the same be not expressed to be received of or by the Hands of any other than the Person or Persons to to whom the same is to be accounted for. But if with Interest—See Promissory Note.
Receipts or Discharges written upon Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Drafts or Orders for the Payment of Money, duly stamped according to the Laws in force at the Date thereof, or upon Bills of Exchange drawn out of but payable in Great Britain.
Receipts or Discharges given upon Bills or Notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
Letters by the General Post acknowledging the safe Arrival of any Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, or other Securities for Money.
Receipts or Discharges indorsed or otherwise written upon or contained in any Bond, Mortgage, or other Security, or any Conveyance, Deed, or Instrument whatever, duly stamped according to the Laws inforce at the Date thereof, acknowledging the Receipt of the Consideration Money therein expressed, or the Receipt of any Principal Money, Interest, or Annuity thereby secured.
Releases or Discharges for Money, by Deeds duly stamped according to the Laws in force at the Date thereof.
Receipts or Discharges given for Drawbacks or Bounties upon the Exportation of any Goods or Merchandize from Great Britain.
Receipts or Discharges for the Return of any Duties of Customs upon Certificates of Over Entry.
Receipts, or Acknowledgments of Payment, indorsed upon any Bills, Orders, Remittance Bills, or Remittance Certificates, drawn by Commissioned Officers, Masters, and Surgeons in the Navy, or by any Commissioner or Commissioners of the Navy, under the Authority of the Act passed in the 35th Year of His Majesty's Reign, for the more expeditious Payment of the Wages and Pay of certain Officers belonging to the Navy.