STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1328, sig. 109-4/1082 (damaged)

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English Translation

- 2 - German courts and notaries to pay so-called stamp fees, which flow to the autonomous protectorate engulfment. sd s p deta e rest in the legal process as such. However, part of the stamp fees has a real charge character, and some of them contain both the tax and the fee in a single charge. to pay a stamp fee of 10 to 30 rof. for the clearance of signatures and the business fee of the notary. On the other hand, the protectorate courts charge only one stamp fee for signature certifications, which however is so determined that the business charge is also paid. The German courts now have doubts as to whether and how the stamp fee has to be paid in the case of legal documents. In part, the stamp certificate has not been claimed at all in trademarks of the protectorate, in part in German legal expenses stamps. In the same way, the conditions in the direction of the stamping fees for certified copies, for last-will orders as well as for lsehsel and cheque protests, The cleaning up of the difficulties arising here from the case-by-case, in particular the payment to the Protectorate Administration of the amounts entered in court-cost stamps, is caused by an administrative body which is in no way responsible for the de minimisity of the debts. Mr Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia has proposed that the question of doubt should be settled by regulation. Article 1 of the draft now stipulates that the German courts and German notaries shall charge only the business fees to be derived from the notarial tariff for the certification of testimonies and succession contracts, for signature and copy certificates, and for bill of exchange and cheque protests, but that the stamp fees provided for for the same acts are not to be paid in the statutes of the Protectorate. This regulation clarifies the question in the simplest way. The loss of income due to the negativity of the stamp -3-