Stamps (Ireland) Act 1804
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1804 c. 68 |
(44 Geo. 3) C A P. LXVIII.
[10th July 1804]
'Most Gracious Sovereign,
WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Ireland , in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies granted to your Majesty, and for the Support of your Majesty's Government, do 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 Authority of the same, That, from and after the Expiration of ten Days after the passing of this Act, there shall, throughout that Part of the United Kingdom calledIreland , be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, for and upon the several Articles, Matters, and Things, expressed in the Schedule hereunto annexed, the several and respective Rates, Impositions, Duties, Charges, and Sums of Money in the said Schedule respectively mentioned and set forth; which said Schedule shall be deemed and taken as Part of this Act to all Intents and Purposes.
II Duties on Notaries' Licences, and Letters of Attorney shall be in lieu of former Duties.
II. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the Expiration of ten Days after the passing of this Act, the Stamp Duties now payable inIreland upon any Licence to any Person to act as a Notary Publick, and on every Letter of Attorney empowering any Person to receive Rents, shall cease and determine; and that in lieu thereof the Duties mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed shall be paid and payable on such Licences and Letters of Attorney respectively.
III Proclamations, &c. published in any Newspaper, &c. \(except the Dublin Gazette), shall be charged with Duty on Advertisements under 43 G. 3. c. 21.
III. And be it further enacted, That every Copy of any Proclamation, Order of Council, or Act of State, made by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland for the Time being, or the Privy Council of Ireland , which shall be contained or published in any Gazette, Newspaper, Journal, or Daily Accounts, to be published weekly or oftener, or in any other printed Paper or Pamphlet, dispersed or made publick, yearly, monthly, or at any other Interval of Time, (except the Dublin Gazette ,) shall, from and after the Expiration of ten Days after the passing of this Act, be considered as an Advertisement, and shall accordingly be charged with and pay the several Duties imposed on Advertisements by an Act, made in the forty-third Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for granting to his Majesty several Duties therein mentioned, to be levied by the Commissionersfor managing the Stamp Duties in Ireland; any Thing in the said recited Act, or any other Law, Usage, or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
IV No Affidavit for grounding a Presentment of a Grand Jury, &c. shall be received unless duly stamped.
IV. And be it further enacted, That no Affidavit, made for the Purpose of grounding thereon any Presentment of any Grand Jury for raising Money for Repair of Roads or for any other publick Purpose, shall be lodged with or received by the Secretary of any Grand Jury, nor shall be entered in any Schedule delivered to any Grand Jury, nor shall any such Affidavit be delivered to any Grand Jury, unless such Affidavit shall be written on Paper stamped with the Stamp required by the Schedule to this Act annexed; any Law, Usage, or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
V Commissioners of Stamps shall grant Licences to Postmasters, &c. to let Houses for Hire.
V. And be it further enacted, That, from and immediately after the passing of this Act, the Commissioners if Stamp Duties inIreland for the Time being, or any of them, may, under his or their Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals, grant a Licence to any Postmaster, Innkeeper, or other Person in Ireland , who shall apply for the same, to let out Horses for Hire, for the Purpose of travelling Post, by the Mile, or from Stage to Stage, and that all such Licences shall be in force from the Day of granting the same, or from such Day subsequent thereto as shall be mentioned in the said Licence, until the twenty-fifth Day of March next following the Day on which the said Licence shall so begin to have Force, and no longer, in like Manner as other Licences granted by the Commissionersof Stamp Duties inIreland; and that no Person shall, from and after the Expiration of ten Days after the passing of this Act, let out any Horse or Horses to hire as aforesaid, without having taken out such Licence; and that any Person who shall let out any Horse or Horses to hire as aforesaid, without having obtained such Licence, shall, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of one hundred Pounds.
VI G. 3. c. 21. ∥ 124, 125. exempting Bank Notes, &c. from Duty, and authorizing Compensation in lieu, repealed.
VI. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said recited Act, made in the forty-third Year of his present Majesty's Reign, as exempts Bank Notes and Bank Post Bills, issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank ofIreland , or by any other Bank or Bankers in Ireland , from any of...
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