and writings of a public character herein-after men tioned:" 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. XXIII. " And whereas by the said Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of her Majesty and this Act respectively certain ad valorem stamp duties are granted and imposed upon leases or tacks of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or heritable subjects at a yearly rent, and doubts are entertained whether the said duties extend to any lease or tack for any term or period less than a year:" for the removal of such doubts, be it enacted, that where any lease or tack of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or heritable subjects shall be made for any term or period less than a year at a rent reserved or payable for the same, such lease or tack shall be chargeable with the same ad valorem duty as a lease or tack at a yearly rent of the same amount as the sum so reserved or payable. XXIV. And in order to encourage the purchase of stamps for drafts, bills, and notes of the several rates and denominations herein-after mentioned, and to facilitate the distribution and supply thereof, there shall be granted and allowed to every person who at one and the same time shall produce at the Office of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in London or Dublin, paper, to be stamped with such stamps or any of them to the amount of five pounds in the whole, or shall purchase such stamps or any of them to the like amount at the office of the said commissioners in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, or of any distributor or sub-distributor of stamps at any place not within the distance of ten miles from the said offices respectively, the allowance follow. ing; (that is to say,) on stamps for denoting any rate of duty not exceeding one shilling on bills of exchange, drafts, or orders, or promissory notes, an allowance after the rate of seven and a half per centum on the amount of such stamp duties respectively; provided that no allowance shall be made on any fraction of a pound; which said allowances are in lieu of any allowance payable on stamps of the like rates and denominations under any other Act or Acts in force. XXV. And in consideration that such allowance as aforesaid is by this Act granted on the purchase of stamps of the several rates and denominations aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for any person on the sale of any such stamp to make any charge for the paper whereon the same is impressed; and if any person upon the sale of any stamp denoting any rate of duty not exceeding one shilling for any bill of exchange, draft or order, or promissory note, shall make any charge for the paper whereon the same is impressed, or under any colour or pretence whatever demand or receive a greater price or sum than the amount of the stamp duty, he shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds. XXVI. Where any person shall be possessed of any stamps rendered useless by this Act, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, on application to them or to their proper officer in that behalf, at any time on or before the fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five to cancel and make allowance for the same as in the case of spoiled stamps, after deducting the discount granted and allowed by law on the purchase of stamps of the like description. XXVII. Every instrument liable to stamp duty shall be admitted in evidence in any criminal proceeding, although it may not have the stamp required by law impressed thereon or affixed thereto. The SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. INLAND BILL OF EXCHANGE, Draft, or Order for the payment to the bearer, or to order, at any time otherwise than on demand, of any sum of money Not exceeding ... Duty. s. d. 01 10, ... 25, ... 50, 4,000 40 0 All which said leases or tacks and grants respectively shall be chargeable with the stamp duties to which the same were subject and liable before the passing of the Act 16 & 17 Vic. c. 63. DUPLICATE OR COUNTERPART AND PRO- EVERY SUCH LEASE or tack, and every such conveyance, charter, disposition, or contract as aforesaid hereby charged with duty, and the duplicate or counterpart thereof respectively, shall be chargeable with the respective stamp duties granted and made payable under the several heads or titles of "duplicate or counterpart," and "progressive duty," in the schedule annexed to the Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of her Majesty's reign, chapter ninety-seven. 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