And where the purchase or consideration money shall exceed And it is hereby directed, that the Purchase Money or Consi deration shall be truly expressed and set forth in words at length in or upon every such principal or only Deed or Instrument of Conveyance; and where such Consideration shall consist either wholly or in part of any Stock or Security, the Value thereof respectively, to be ascertained as hereinafter mentioned, shall also be truly expressed and set forth in manner aforesaid in or upon every such Deed or Instrument; and such Value shall be deemed and taken to be the Purchase or Consideration Money, or Part of the Purchase or Consideration Money, as the case may be, in respect whereof the ad valorem Duty shall be charged as aforesaid. And where the Consideration, or any Part of the Consideration, shall be any Stock in any of the Public Funds, or any Government Debenture, or Stock of the Bank of England or Bank of Ireland, or any Debenture or Stock of any Corporation, Com. pany, Society, or Persons or Person, payable only at the Will of the Debtor, the said Duty shall be calculated (taking the same respectively, whether constituting the whole or a part only of such Consideration,) according to the average selling price thereof respectively, on the Day or on either of the Ten Days preceding the Day of the Date of the Deed or Instrument of Conveyance, or if no Sale shall have taken place within such Ten Days, then according to the average selling Price thereof on the Day of the last preceding Sale; and if such Consideration or Part of such Consideration, shall be a Mortgage, Judgment, or Bond, or a Debenture, the amount whereof shall be recover. able by the Holder, or any other Security whatsoever, whether payable in Money or otherwise, then such Calculation shall be made according to the Sum due thereon for both Principal and Interest. COVENANT.-Any Deed containing a Covenant for the Payment] or Repayment of any Sum or Sums of Money, or for the Transfer or Retransfer of any Share or Shares in the Government or Parliamentary Stocks or Funds, or in the Stock and Funds of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or of the Bank of Ireland, or of the East India Company, or of the South Sea Company, or of any other Company or Corporation, in any case where a Mortgage, if made for the like purpose, would be chargeable under this Schedule with any ad valorem Duty exceeding in Amount the Sum of £1 158.; or for the payment of any Annuity, or any sums at stated periods in any case where a Bond for the like purpose would be chargeable with any such Duty, Stamp Duty: £ s. d. on Transfers; 0 10 0 The same ad Stamp Duty on Scrip Certificates, where transferable with- on Serip out a Deed in Writing; under 16 & 17 Vic. c. 63: On any SCRIP CERTIFICATE,-that is to say, any Document denoting, or intended to denote, the Right or Title of the Holder Certificates Stamp on Proxies. Clearing thereof or any Person to any Share or Shares in any Joint Stock £ s. d. 001 Stamp Duty on Proxies; under 19 & 20 Vic., c. 81. On a PROXY for voting under Companies Clauses or other Acts £ s. d. 006 All the statutes contained in this volume are "Public and General Acts," except one, introduced as a "Private Bill," and classed in the statute-book amongst "Local and Personal Acts," but declaring itself a "Public Act" (XXXI. 28); and being, as it may be described for the sake of further variety, a "Special Act," as other acts of like kind have of late been styled. The act here alluded to is that relating to the Railway Clearing House in London, (13 & 14 Vic. cap. xxxiii.) There is also a Clearing House in Dublin, chiefly for Irish Railways, a voluntary association, not at present under any Act of Parliament, but self-governed and self-regulated, and not the less useful or efficient for its object. The following list contains the names of Railway Companies associated in the Railway Clearing House in London, for the whole or parts of their traffic, under the above act : RAILWAYS, &C., IN CLEARING HOUSE IN LONDON. Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Boston, Sleaford, and Midland Coun- Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds. | Caledonian. Carlisle and Silloth Bay. Cockermouth and Workington. Cork and Bandon. Crieff Junction. Darlington and Barnard Castle. RAILWAYS, &C., IN CLEARING HOUSE IN LONDON-continued. Clearing Dublin and Belfast Junction. Dunblane, Down, and Callander. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen. Eastern Union. Edinburgh and Glasgow. Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding. Glasgow and Paisley Joint. Great Southern and Western. Hertford, Luton, and Dunstable. Hull and Holderness. Irish South-Eastern. Kendal and Windermere. Killarney Junction. Lancashire and Yorkshire. London and Blackwall. Ma chester, South Junction, and Maryport and Carlisle. Midland. Midland Great Western of Ireland. Monkland. Monmouthshire. Newcastle and Carlisle. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford. North British. North Eastern. North and South Western Junction. North Staffordshire. North Western. North Yorkshire and Cleveland. Perth and Dunkeld. Portadown, Dungannon, and Omagh. St. Andrews. St. George's Harbour Co. Scottish Central. Scottish North Eastern. Stirling and Dunfermline. Ulverstone and Lancaster. Warrington and Stockport. Whitehaven and Furness. House. The following list gives the names of Companies associated in the Irish Railway Clearing House. The list is not confined to Railway Companies, but includes other Companies, &c., Clearing availing themselves of the advantage of an independent audit afforded by that establishment : RAILWAYS, &c., IN CLEARING HOUSE IN DUBLIN. Although some of the foregoing statements may appear to be hardly within the scope of the more immediate purpose, as already explained, of this publication, it is hoped that the information contained in them may not be altogether useless or uninteresting. Monkstown Lodge, Co. Dublin, ARTHUR MOOre. [NOTE. The preceding pages were in type before the publication of the Board of Trade Report for 1857, from which the statistical results for that year have now been added, in notes or otherwise, while these pages were in the press.-November, 1858.] INDEX. MARKS OF REFERENCE. The Roman Numbers, i. ii. iii. &c., refer to the respective Acts dis- The Figures, 1, 2, 3, &c., refer to the Sections of the Acts, also printed Thus, the marks “xix. 58” refer to Act XIX, section 58:-"vii. ABANDONMENT of Railways: Act of 1846 to facilitate Dissolution of Companies in certain cases, xxxiii. xxxiii. 1 note Act of 1850 to facilitate abandonment of Railways, and dissolution of Applies to Companies having an Act before 14 Aug., 1850, and to Com- xxxv. 1 note ABSENT PARTIES having Interests in Lands; Compensation to, xix. 58 et seq. xix. 58 . Nomination, Declaration, and Valuation of Surveyor to be preserved by Company and open to inspection by parties interested, xix. 61 xix. 62 Expenses of such Valuation to be borne by Company, When Compensation to absent party, is so settled by Surveyor, party xix. 65 If further Sum awarded by Arbitrators, payment or recovery of same, xix. 66 award held to be sufficient, xix. 67 If insufficient, Costs to be paid by Company,. xix. 67 Payment and application of Purchase Money or Compensation to; see under Lands. |