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  1. Taxes other than stamp duties on transactions in stock exchanges and futures markets.
  2. Rates of stamp duty in respect of bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, bills of lading, letters of credit, policies of insurance, transfer of shares, debentures, proxies and receipts.
  3. Taxes on the sale or purchase of newspapers and on advertisements published therein.
  4. Offences against laws with respect to any of the matters in this List.
  5. Inquiries, surveys and statistics for the purpose of any of the matters in this List.
  6. Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this List; admiralty jurisdiction.
  7. Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List, but not including fees taken in any court.
  8. Any other matter not enumerated in List II or List III including any tax not mentioned in either of those Lists.

List II—State List

  1. Public order (but not including the use of naval, military or air forces or any other armed forces of the Union in aid of the civil power).
  2. Police, including railway and village police.
  3. Administration of justice; constitution and organisation of courts, except the Supreme Court and the High Court; officers and servants of the High Court; procedure in rent and revenue courts; fees taken in all courts except the Supreme Court.
  4. Prisons, reformatories, Borstal institutions and other institutions of a like nature, and persons detained therein; arrangements with other States for the use of prisons and other institutions.
  5. Local government, that is to say, the constitution and powers of municipal corporations, improvement trusts, district boards, mining settlement authorities and other local authorities for the purpose of local self-government or village administration.
  6. Public health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries.
  7. Pilgrimages, other than pilgrimages to places outside India.
  8. Intoxicating liquors, that is to say, the production, manufacture, possession, transport,