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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

paid at first on the said Probate [or Letters of Administration]
entirely through ignorance, mistake, or misapprehension, and
without any intention fraud, or to delay the payment of the
full and proper duty, which this Deponent hath [or these
Deponents have been informed and believes [or believe] amounts
to the sum of pounds-all which is submitted to the
Commissioner of Stamp Duties, praying that the said Probate
[or Letters of Administration] may now be duly stamped, on
payment of the sum of being the sum wanting to make
up the duty which ought to have been paid at first thereon.

Sworn [or severally sworn] at
in the Province and Colony afore-
said, by the Deponent [or Depo-
nents the day first above men-
tioned, before me

The above Affidavit to be made by all the Executors or
Administrators.

(O.)

FORM Of BOND to be entered into by Executor or
Administrator where Credit given for duty payable
on Probate or Letters of Administration.

KNOW all Men by these presents, that we , are jointly
and severally held and firmly bound unto Her Majesty the
Queen, in the sum of of good and lawful money of
Great Britain, to be paid to Her said Majesty, for which
payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and
each and every of us, for the whole, our and each and every of
our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these
presents. Sealed with our Seals. Dated the day of
, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and.

Where more than
one Executor or
Administrator, form
to be altered accord-
ingly.

WHEREAS the above bounden is the
executor of the Will [or Administrator of the
goods, chattels, and credits, with the Will
annexed, if so] of , late of
deceased: And whereas the said as such Executor [or
Administrator] hath applied to the Commissioner of Stamp
Duties to affix the necessary stamp for the duty payable on
such Probate [or Letters of Administration], and to give to
him the said credit for the amount of such duty, for the period
of six months from the day of the date hereof, which the said
Commissioner has agreed to do: The condition of the above-
written Obligation is such, that if the said do and shall
well and truly pay to the said Commissioner the sum of
, being the amount of duty liable to be paid on the
stamping of such Probate [or Letters of Administration], on or
before the day of , one thousand eight hundred
and . And do and shall, if the time for payment of such
duty be extended by the Memorandum indorsed hereon, under
the hand of the said Commissioner (or the duly qualified
Officer acting for and on his behalf), well and truly pay the
said sum of on the day appointed by the said Memo-
randum for such payment: And in case the said shall
not pay the said Commissioner the said sum of
being
the amount of such duty as aforesaid, at the time hereinbefore
appointed for payment thereof, if the said shall and do
well and truly pay the said sum of and interest thereon,
at and after the rate of ten pounds per centum per annum from
the time hereinbefore appointed for payment, to the day of the
date of the actual payment thereof: Then this Obligation to be
void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and
virtue.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the)
above bounden in the
presence of
} (L.S.)

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above bounden in the
presence of
} (L.S.)

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the)
above bounden in the
presence of
} (L.S.)

MEMORANDUM.

THE Commissioner of Stamp Duties agrees to extend the period
in the within-mentioned Bond specified for the payment of
Stamp Duty, to the day of , one thousand
eight hundred and , when prompt payment must be
made, or interest at the rate of ten pounds per centum per
annum will then be charged on and in addition to the said
amount of duty.

Dated at , this day of , 186 .

For the Commissioner of Stamp Duties.

(P.)
AFFIDAVIT to be made for obtaining a Return of
Duty on Probates of Wills and Letters of
Administration, on the ground of Debts Paid out
of the Effects of the Deceased, pursuant to "The
Stamp Duties Act, 1866."

To be filled in from
the Circular Letter
issued from the
Stamp Office, relating
to Legacy Duty.
Register No. 18 Folio

In the Executorship [or Administration] of deceased.
On this day of , in the year one thousand
eight hundred and , in the Province of
, in the Colony of New Zealand [or of
in the Province of and of
in the Province of , in the Colony of New Zealand,
] being duly sworn maketh oath and saith [or severally
make oath and say]:---

1. Probate of the last Will and Testament [or Letters of
   Administration of the goods, chattels, and credits, with the
   Will annexed, if so] of , late of
   died on the day of , one thousand eight
   hundred and , was [or were] granted to this Deponent
   [or these Deponents], by the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
   on the day of , one thousand eight hundred
   and .

2. The estate and effects of the said deceased, for or in
   respect of which the said Probate was [or Letters of Adminis-
   tration were] granted, were then sworn to be under the value
   of pounds, and a Stamp Duty of pounds
   shillings [or per cent.] was accordingly paid on the
   said Probate [or Letters of Administration]. (See Note A.)

3. The Schedule hereunto annexed and subscribed by this
   Deponent [or these Deponents] and marked No. 1, doth
   contain a true and perfect inventory, account, and valuation of
   the personal estate and effects, whereof the said deceased was
   possessed, and for which the said Probate was [or Letters of
   Administration were] granted by the Supreme Court aforesaid,
   exclusive of what the deceased may have been possessed of, or
   entitled to as a trustee for any other person or persons, and
   not beneficially, and particularly that the said inventory
   includes all the (B.) leasehold estates for terms of years,
   absolute, or determinable on a life or lives, whereof the said
   deceased died possessed, and that such personal estate and
   effects being now fully got in, or the amount thereof clearly
   ascertained, did not at the time the said Probate was [or
   Letters of Administration were] granted, exceed the sum of
   according to the best of the
   State the amount of
   the effects, without knowledge, information, and belief of this
   any deduction on Deponent [or these Deponents]. And that
   account of the debts. the said deceased did not die possessed of
   any other personal estate and effects whatever, to the best of
   this Deponent's [or these Deponents'] knowledge and belief.
   (C.)

(D.) 4. And this Deponent further saith [or these Deponents
further say] that he hath [or they have] actually paid debts to
the full amount of , without reckoning or including
any interest accrued or become due upon any debt since the
death of the said deceased, and that the said debts are not in
any way made chargeable upon or payable out of any real
estate, distinct from or in exoneration of the personal estate,
for and in respect of which the said Probate was [or Letters of
Administration were] granted, but that the same were justly
due and owing from the deceased at the time of his [or her]
decease, and payable by law out of his [or her] personal estate;
and that the said debts, being deducted from the amount or
value of the said personal estate and effects, do reduce the same
to a sum, which, if it had been the whole gross amount or
value of the personal estate and effects of the deceased, would
have occasioned a less Stamp Duty to be paid on the said (E.)
Probate [or Letters of Administration] than was actually paid
thereon, by the sum of , as this Deponent hath [or
these Deponents have been informed and believes [or believe].
All which is submitted to the Commissioner of Stamp Duties
praying that the said sum of may therefore be returned
to this Deponent [or these Deponents] pursuant to the Statute
in that behalf, and that the same may be paid to him [or
them].

Sworn [or severally sworn at in the
Colony aforesaid, by the Deponent [or
Deponents the day first above mentioned,
before me

SCHEDULE No. 1.

The form of account must show, on the one side, Inventory
of deceased's effects according to the value thereof at the time
the Probate or Administration was granted; and on the other