A Collection of Acts Passed by the Governor-General of India in the Year 1899

[ACT u (Chapter.I.—Treligninary.—Section 2.) note or for the delivery of any bill of echange or promissory note in satisfaction of any sum of money or for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed or happen ; (b) an order for the payment of any sum of money weekly month [...] George and the territories respectively under the adminitration of the Lieutenant-Governors of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces and the Chief Commissioner of Oudh—the Board of Revenue ; in the Presidency of Bombay outside Sindh and the limits of the town of Bombay—a Revenue Commissioner ; in Sindh—the Commissioner ; in the Punjab and.Burma including Upper Burma—the Financial Commission [...] (2) The parties may determine for themselves which of the instruments so employed shall for the purposes of sub-section (1) be deemed to be the principal instrument : Provided that the duty chargeable on the instrment so determined shall be the highest duty which would be chargeable in respect of any of the said instruments employed. [...] (1) Where an instrument is chargeable with ad valorem duty in respect of any money expressed in any currency other than that of British India such duty shall be calculated on the value of such money in the currency of British India according to the current rate of exchange on the day of the date of the instrument. [...] (Transfer of any interest secured by a bond mortgage-deed or policy of insurance) — by the person drawing making or executing such instrument : (b) in the case of a policy of insurance—by the person effecting the insurance : (c) in the case of a conveyance (including a rconveyance of mortgaged property) by the grantee : in the case of a lease - or agrement to lease—by the lessee or intende