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SCHEDULE, PART II.	Duty.
		£	s.	d.
DEPOSITION or Depositions, taken by Commission or otherwise, in any Cause or Suit before the Court of Session, or the Commission of Teinds, or the Commissary Court at Edinburgh, or in any Civil Cause before any Inferior Court		0	2	0
Exemptions from the preceding and all other Stamp Duties.
Depositions taken in any Cause or Suit before any of the said Courts, which shall be insisted in, at the Instance of the public Prosecutor, for the public Interest, or where the public Revenue is concerned.
Depositions taken in any Cause or Suit before any Inferior Court, where the Sum or Subject concluded for shall be under the Value of 5l. Sterling, exclusive of Costs.
SUMMONS, Warrant, Precept, Summary Petition, Complaint, or other original Application, in whatever Form, issuing from or out of or presented to the Court of Session, or Commission of Teinds, or the Court of Exchequer, or High Court of Admiralty, except where the Suit shall be instituted by or at the Instance of the public Prosecutor, for the public Interest, or where the public Revenue is concerned		0	4	0
SUMMONS, Warrant, Precept, Edict, Summary Petition, Complaint, or other original Application, in whatever Form, issuing from or out of or presented to any Court in Scotland (other than the said Courts of Session, Commission of Teinds, Exchequer, and High Court of Admiralty, and the Court of Justiciary), where the Matter in dispute shall exceed the Amount or Value of Five Pounds (except as in the last Article)		0	2	0
WARRANT, Mandate, or Authority given to any Solicitor, Attorney, Agent, or Procurator, to commence, carry on, or defend any Action, Suit, or Prosecution in any Court in Scotland, for the Memorandum or Minute thereof to be entered or filed of Record		0	5	0
V. GENERAL EXEMPTIONS from all Stamp Duties, applicable to England as well as Scotland.
Warrants, Mandates, or Authorities to commence, carry on, or defend any Actions, Suits, or Prosecutions in any Court whatever, where the Debt, Damage, or Thing claimed or demanded shall not amount to or be of the Value of Forty Shillings.
Warrants, Mandates, or Authorities to commence, carry on, or defend any Prosecutions or Proceedings upon Indictments, or upon any Information, Suit, Writ, or Process, in the Name of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or at the Instance of the Attorney General, Lord Advocate of Scotland, or other or sue in the Name or Officer legally authorized to prosecute for the Interest of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors.
But these Exemptions are not to extend to Informations in the Nature of Quo Warranto filed by His Majesty's Coroner and Attorney in the Court of King's Bench, nor to informations