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Stamp Act 1815

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Stamp Act 1815

1815 CHAPTER 184

An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings, and other written or printed Instruments, and the Duties on Fire Insurances, and on Legacies and Successions to Personal Estate upon Intestacies, now payable in Great Britain; and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof.

[11th July 1815]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WHEREAS it is expedient to grant certain additional Stamp Duties towards raising the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's public Expenses, and making such permanent Addition to the Public Revenue as shall be equal to the increased annual Charge occasioned by the Funding of Exchequer Bills, and by any Loan made pursuant to any Act or Acts passed or to be passed for that Purpose in this Session of Parliament; and it is also expedient to consolidate the additional with the existing Duties :

We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the several Duties herein-after mentioned ; and 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,

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