Stamp Duties Act, 1854

STAMP DUTIES ACT 1854

CAP. LXXXIII.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties. [10th August 1854.]

‘Whereas it is expedient to repeal the Stamp Duties now payable in respect of the several Instruments, Matters, and Things mentioned or described in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and to impose other Stamp Duties in lieu thereof, and otherwise to amend the Laws relating to Stamp Duties:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: