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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 30, 1836
Page
8
A table explains how to predict weather by Sun and Moon positions and lunar age. It notes red sunrise clouds signal strong winds, red sunset clouds foretell winds, the Moon in a cloudy circle indicates wind, a double circle portends a great tempest, and western sunset clouds suggest fair days.
The text outlines legacy duties on estates and shares: 20 percent and up on personal and real estate, with specific rates to lineal descendants 9 percent, siblings 8 percent, uncles and aunts 6 percent, more distant relations 5 percent, and strangers 10 percent. Legacies to spouses are exempt. If death occurred before April 5 1895, duty applies only to personal estate and at lower rates. Appraisals for tax purposes are exempt from duty under the last Stamp Act.
The entry enumerates peers of the blood royal including 3 dukes 21 marquises 19 earls 108 viscounts 1s barons and 191 archbishops along with Irish peers and bishops. It notes 24 Scotch representative peers 1d Irish peers 28 Irish spiritual peers and 4 ducal representative peers holding English titles.
The document lists celestial events for 1837 with eclipses and visibility at Greenwich. It notes Sun and Moon eclipse dates including April 20 October 18 Moon eclipses visible at Greenwich, plus partial and total eclipses in other months. It also provides Golden Number Epacts Solar Cycle Dominical Letter and calendar era milestones.
The days for claiming the allowance at Somerset House are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12 to 2 o'clock. Persons beyond ten miles of London must file an affidavit within twelve months after spoilage, to be stamped and left at the allowance office on Monday or Wednesday, and called for on the third Monday following to receive an allowance ticket for the same stamps.
Promissory notes re issued subject to sums not exceeding specified sterling amounts. The document lists values from fivepence to £30 with various limits and reissuance terms. No clear person, date, or place is identified in the readable text.
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