Correspondence and other papers concerning stamp duty on debenture stock

• Reference:GB 252 PE/62/Bundle98
• Dates of Creation:1889-1891

• Scope and Content

  Includes:

  Letter from David Ewle, Inland Revenue, Edinburgh to William McLeish, Perth informing him that “no stamp duty is chargeable upon a debenture stock certificate delivered to a holder under sub-section 9 of the Perth Corporation Act of 1891”; 28 October 1891.

  Letter from Thomas Notertam, Edinburgh to the town clerks, Perth requesting that they retain “the other instruments” pending the Board’s reconsideration of the question of duty; 24 November 1891.

  State of the affairs of the city of Perth; 1889-1891.

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