Succession Duty Act, 1853

Duty to be entered by the commissioners in a book, and a stamped receipt to be given.

51. Whenever any payment of duty shall be made under this Act, the same shall be entered in a, book to be kept by the commissioners for this purpose; and the Receiver General of Inland Revenue, or other proper officer appointed by the commissioners, shall give a receipt for the same in such form as they shall think fit, and stamped with the proper stamp for denoting the rate of duty; and the commissioners shall from time to time deliver to any person interested in any property affected by such duty, on applying for the same for any reasonable purpose approved by the commissioners, a certificate, in such form as they may think fit, of such payment.