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48° GEORGII III. Cap.149.

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SCHEDULE, PART I.	Duty.
GRANT—continued.		£	s.	d.
And where any such Grant or Letters Patent shall be contained in more than One Skin, Sheet, or Piece of Vellum, Parchment, or Paper, then for every Skin, Sheet, or Piece thereof after the First, a further progressive Duty of		20	0	0
Exemptions from the preceding and all other Stamp Duties.
Commissions of Rebellion in Process:
Letters Patent or Briefs fur collecting Charitable Benevolences:
Letters Patent for confirming any Dispensation herein-before charged with a Duty.
GRANT, or Warrant of Precedence to take Rank, under the Sign Manual of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors		20	0	0
GRANT or Licence to take and use a Name and Arms, or either of them		10	0	0
GRANT, Lease, or Tack, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or the Seal of the Exchequer in England, or the Seal of the Duchy or County Palatine of Lancaster, or the Seal kept and used in Scotland, in place of the Great Seals formerly used there; or under the Privy Seal in England, or the Quarter Seal or Privy Seal in Scotland, unless directed to the Great Seal; or under the Royal Sign Manual of His Majesty, His Heirs or of the Seals aforesaid;
Of any Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, or heritable Subjects, whatever the Tenure thereof may be, which have or shall come to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by Escheat or Forfeiture, or by reason of the same being purchased by or for any Alien; or which His Majesty, His Heirs or Successor, is or shall be otherwise entitled to, in Right of the Crown, and be authorized to dispose of absolutely, as he or they shall think fit; whether such Grant, Lease, or Tack shall be in Fee or Fee Tail, or for Term of Life or Years;
Or of any Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, or heritable Subjects belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, or belonging to the Crown in Scotland, whereof His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, unless directed to any Successors, is or shall be authorized to make only certain limited Grants, Leases, or Tacks; whether such Grant, Lease, or Tack, shall be for Term of Life or Years; Or of any Goods, Chattels, or personal or moveable Estate, or other Profit, whereof the Grant is not otherwise charged in this Schedule;
Where such Grant, Lease, or Tack shall be intended to operate in any Degree as a Gift, except in the Cases next herein-after mentioned, then for every Skin, Sheet, or Piece of Vellum, Parchment, or Paper, upon which the same shall be written, a Duty of		20	0	0
And where any such Grant, Lease, or Tack, operating as a Gift, shall be of Lands or other Hereditaments, or heritable Subjects, vested in His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by Escheat, for want of Heirs of any Person who was a bare Trustee thereof, or seized into the Hands of the Crown upon any Outlawry, in a Civil Action at the Suit of any of His Majesty's Subjects		1	10	0