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Public Maps and Documents riot to be liable to Stamp Duty by reason of their being referred to in Deeds or Writings.
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XXII. ‘And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter One hundred and eighty-four, and by the said Act of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her Majesty respectively, certain Stamp Duties were imposed upon any Schedule, Inventory, or Catalogue containing the Matters and Things in the said Acts respectively mentioned, which should be referred to in or by and be intended to be used or given in Evidence as Part of or as material to any Instrument charged with Stamp Duty, but which should be separate and distinct therefrom, and not endorsed on or annexed thereto, and Doubts are entertained whether the said Duties extend to certain Documents and Writings of a public Character herein-after mentioned:, For the Removal of such Doubts, be it declared and enacted, That the said last-mentioned Stamp Duties shall not extend or be deemed to have extended to any public Map, Plan, Survey, Apportionment, Allotment, Award, or other parochial or public Document or Writing whatsoever made under or in pursuance of any Act of Parliament, and deposited or kept for Reference in any Registry, or in any public Office, or with the Public Books, Papers, or Writings of any Parish, by reason of any such Document or Writing as aforesaid being referred to in or by any Deed or Instrument whatever, provided that such Document or Writing be not endorsed on or annexed to such Deed or Instrument.
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