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An Act to extend to the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster certain of the Provisions of an Act passed in the Session holden in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of Her present Majesty. intituled "An Act to give to Trustees, Mortgagees, and others certain Powers now commonly inserted in Settlements, Mortgages, and Wills."
The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 (5 Geo. 3. c. c. 12), was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp .
The act was described as a Consolidation Act. [4] The Stamp Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 97) and the Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 99) were passed at the same time to amend and consolidate the law that had evolved over the last century relating to stamp duty and other inland revenue. [5]
The first revenue stamps in the United States were used briefly during colonial times, among the most notable usage involved the Stamp Act.Long after independence, the first revenue stamps printed by the United States government were issued in the midst of the American Civil War, prompted by the urgent need to raise revenue to pay for the great costs it incurred.
Cigarette Duty (1909) Customs Duty (1902) Patent and Proprietary (1909) Apart from these, a new design for Patent and Proprietary was issued between 1909 and 1910 for medicine duty before the Act was repealed in 1911. When it was a colony, the Cape of Good Hope also issued a wide range of impressed duty stamps. [3]
A stamp duty was first introduced in England in 1694 following the Dutch model as An act for granting to Their Majesties several duties on Vellum, Parchment and Paper for four years, towards carrying on the war against France (5 & 6 Will. & Mar.
An Act to increase the Stamp Duty on Licences to Appraisers; to reduce the Stamp Duties on Registry Searches in Ireland; to amend the Law relating to the Duties on Legacies; and also to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for regulating the Issue of Bank Notes in England. (Repealed by Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c ...
An Act to make provision respecting the Stamp Duty on Transfers of Stock of the Government of Canada. Courts (Colonial) Jurisdiction Act 1874 [ 2 ] 37 & 38 Vict. c. 27