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Articles of Clerkship to Attorneys of the County Palatine Courts may be stamped for Admission of the Clerk into Superior Courts on Payment of the additional Duty only.
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VII. ‘Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter One hundred and eighty-four, certain Stamp Duties are imposed on any Articles of Clerkship or Contract whereby any Person shall first become bound to serve as a Clerk in order to his Admission as an Attorney or Solicitor in any Court; that is to say, in order to Admission in any of the Courts at Westminster, the Stamp Duty of One hundred and twenty Pounds, and in order to Admission in any of the Courts of the Counties Palatine, the Stamp Duty of Sixty Pounds: And whereas where any Person has become bound and has served as a Clerk under any such Articles or Contract stamped with the said Duty of Sixty Pounds in order to his Admission as an Attorney or Solicitor in any of the Courts of the Counties Palatine, he is capable of being admitted in any of Her Majesty’s Courts at Westminster, but only upon the Payment of the further Stamp Duty of One hundred and twenty Pounds; and it is expedient to afford Relief in such Cases:’
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Where any Person shall have become bound as a Clerk in order to his Admission as an Attorney or Solicitor in any of the Courts of the Counties Palatine by Articles or Contract stamped with the said Duty of Sixty Pounds, then upon Payment of such further Sum of Money as with the said Duty of Sixty Pounds will make up the full Stamp Duty which, at the Date of such Articles or Contract, was payable by Law on Articles of Clerkship in order to Admission in any of the Courts at Westminster, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Inland Revenue and they are hereby required to stamp the said Articles or Contract with a Stamp or Stamps to denote such further Duty, and thereupon such Articles or Contract shall be as valid and effectual for entitling such Person to Admission in any of the Courts at Westminster as if the same had been duly stamped with such full Duty in the first instance.
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