Stamp Duties Act 1783
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(23 Geo. 3) C A P. LVIII.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
'WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons ofGreat Britain in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies which we have freely granted unto your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty the several additional and new Stamp-duties herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted;' and be it enacted by the King'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 Authorityof the same, That, from and after the first Day ofAugust , one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, throughout the Kingdom of Great Britain , unto and for the Use of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, the several Stamp-duties following; that is to say,
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, any Receipt, or other Discharge, for any Legacy left by any Will or other testamentary Instrument or for any Share or Part of a personal Estate, divided by Force of the Statute of Distributions, or the Custom of any Province or Place, the Amount whereof shall not exceed the Value of twenty Pounds, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of two Shillings and Six-pence; and where the Amount shall exceed the Value of twenty Pounds, and not amount to one hundred Pounds, an additional Stamp-duty of five Shillings; and where the Amount thereof shall be of the Value of one hundred Pounds, an additional Stamp-duty of twenty Shillings; and a like additional Stamp-duty upon every further Sum of one hundred Pounds, so left by any Will or other testamentary Instrument, or for any Share or Part of a personal Estate, divided by Force of the Statute of Distributions, or the Custom of any Province or Place:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any Probate of a Will, or Letters of Administration, for any Estate of or above the Value of one hundred Pounds, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of twenty Shillings; and a further additional Duty of twenty Shillings, where the Estate is of or above the Value of three hundred Pounds; and a further additional Duty of twenty Shillings, where the Estate is of or above the Value of six hundred Pounds; and a further additional Duty of twenty Shillings, where the Estate is of or above the Value of one thousand Pounds:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, inGreat Britain , any Indenture, Lease, or other Deed, for which a Stamp-duty of one Shilling and Six-pence is payable, by virtue of an Act made in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, except Bonds given as Security for the Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of one Shilling.
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which any Bond shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, given as Security for any Sum of Money, the Amount whereof shall exceed one hundred Pounds, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of five Shillings; and where the Amount thereof shall be of the Value of five hundred Pounds, or upwards, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of ten Shillings:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed or written any original Writ, (except such Original upon which a Writ ofCapias issues) Subpoena ,Bill of Middlesex, Latitat , Writ of Capias, Quo Minus , Writ of Dedimus Potestatem to take Answers, examine Witnesses, or appoint Guardians, or any other Writ whatsoever, or any other Process or Mandate that shall issue out or pass the Seals of any of the Courts at Westminster , Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales , Courts in the Counties Palatine, or any other Court whatsoever holding Plea, where the Debt or Damage doth amount to forty Shillings, or above, or the Thing in Demand is of that Value (Writs of Covenant for levying Fines, Writs of Entry for suffering Common Recoveries, and Writs of Habeas Corpus always excepted), there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of Six-pence:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any Dispensation to hold two Ecclesiastical Dignities or Benefices, or both a Dignity and a Benefice, or any other Dispensation or Faculty from the Lord Archbishop ofCanter bury ,or the Master of the Faculties for the Time being, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of forty Shillings:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, any Admission into any of the four Inns of Court, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of forty Shillings:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any Register, Entry, Testimonial, or Certificate of the Degree of Utter Barrister, taken in any of the said four Inns of Court, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of four Pounds:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any Grant or Letters Patent under the Great Seal ofGreat Britain , or the Sear of the Duchy or County Palatine of Lancaster , of any Honour, Dignity, Promotion, Franchise, Liberty, or Privilege, to any Person or Persons, Body Politick or Corporate, or Exemplification of the same (Commissions of Rebellion in Process always excepted) there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of forty Shillings:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any Admittance, or Instrument for admitting, of any Fellow of the College of Physicians, or of any Attorney, Clerk, Advocate, Proctor, Notary, or other Officer or Officers, in any Court whatsoever inGreat Britain (not being an annual Officer in any Corporation or inferior Court, whose Office is under the Value of ten Pounds per Annum , in Salary, Fees, or other Perquisites), there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of forty Shillings:
For every Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any Note or Bill of Lading, which shall be signed for any Goods or Merchandizes to be exported, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of Four-pence:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any Certificate or Debenture for drawing back any Customs or Duties, or any Part of any Customs or Duties, for or in respect of the reshipping or exporting of any Goods or Merchandizes, which shall be exported, or shipped to be exported, fromGreat Britain , for any Parts beyond the Seas, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-duty of Eight-pence:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed or written, any Citation or Monition, made in any ecclesiastical Court, or any Libel or Allegation, Deposition, Answer, Sentence, or final Decree, or any Inventory exhibited in any Ecclesiastical Court, the Courts of Admiralty or Cinque Ports, or whereupon any Copies of them respectively shall be ingrossed or written, or upon which shall be ingrossed or written any Protest, or any other notorial Act whatsoever, there shall be charged an additional Stamp-Duty of one Shilling:
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which shall be ingrossed or written any Conveyance, Surrender of Grants or Offices, Release, or other Deed whatsoever, which shall be inrolled of Record in any of the Courts atWestminster , or in any other Court of Record whatsoever, or by any Custos Rotulorum , or Clerk of the Peace, there shall be...
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