Chapter 4

Section 1:  Of Titles and Diplomas

  • Article 35: Royal titles; warrants or credentials of Government employees; any authority or dignity granted in the civil, military or ecclesiastical professions, whether payable from the general or a municipal exchequer; and  duplicates of said documents issued at the request of the interested party,  will bear a stamp of a proportionate value to the  respective annual remuneration of salary, according to the following scale:
Annual Salary of Employee Value of Stamp
Up to 50.00 0.50
From 50,06 to 250,00 1.00
From 250.05 to 400.00 2.00
From 400.05 to 700.00 3.00
From 700.05 to 1,200.00 5.00
From 1,200.05 to 2,000.00  10.00
From 2000.05 to 2,500 .00 15.00
From 2,500.05 upwards  20.00
  • Article 36:  The officials, officers or corporations upon whom it devolves to issue the titles, warrants or credentials will determine the value of the annual remuneration or emolument, if there is no fixed salary, and will be held personally responsible for the use of paper of the proper class and stamp.
  • Article 37: On paper of  the first class will be extended titles and letters of succession to Castillian titles which include the rank of Grandee of Spain.
  • Article 38: Paper  of the second class will be used for: [27]
  • Article 39: Paper of the third class will be used for:
1st: Titles of Knights, commanders  of all orders, and those conferring any honor, dignity or office in any department of state, and diplomas of doctors of all faculties.
2nd: Title deeds to mines, and letters patent of invention, of instruction of machines,manufacture or product.
  • Article 40: Paper of the fourth class will be used for:
1st: Titles to Knights of all orders.
2nd: Diplomas of licentiates in all faculties, and those of architects and civil engineers.
3rd: Diplomas of  recorders,  notaries,  and  solicitors of any Tribunal or Justice Court,   without regard to grade or jurisdiction.
4th: Royal  patents  of  navigation.
5th: Permits to go abroad.
6th: Titles, warrants or diplomas of any other class which bear the signature of His Majesty, and not having a stamp of greater value assigned them in these regulations.
  • Article 41: Paper of the fifth class will be used for:
1st: Diplomas of bachelorship.
2nd: Diplomas of surveyors and veterinaries of all classes.
3rd: Diplomas for the practice of any similar profession.
Section 2: Of Licenses, Books, Accounts Current, and Other Documents
in which the Authorities intervene
  • Article 42: Stamped paper of the seventh class will be used for:
1st: Licenses for the use of arms; hunting and fishing; public establishments; carriages; livery stables, etc.; this without prejudice to the collection of the taxes established by the respective regulations for privilege of the above named concessions.
2nd: Licenses for the construction and repairing of buildings.
  • Article 43: Paper of the eight class will be used for:
1st: Warrants issued by Administration for the compulsory collection of taxes and public revenues.
2nd: Record books of mercantile, insurance or any other companies established under the authority of  the Government.
3rd: Record books of all  corporations charged with any branch of the  Public Administration, when not subsidized by the State.
  • Article 44: Paper of the tenth class will be used for:
1st: Certificates of death, and copies thereof. 
2nd: All memoranda, petitions or requests presented before any authority or independent office of the same, not judicial, and claims presented to the Government by contractors of any kind of public works against the decisions of the Administration.
3rd: Copies of titles and credentials certifying to any employment profession, or office, except the certificates issued by recorders, and those issued by judicial decree.
4th: Simple copies of any other document which the interested parties may get out in connection with Government business.
5th: Certificates of matriculation, and those of approbations of incorporation in academic courses.
6th: Compulsory proceedings for the collection of taxes and public revenues except in the writ of order.
7th: In the records of proceedings of  government nature involving interests of private individuals in all actions taken upon their petition. [28]
8th: Certificates issued at the instance of the interested party by any official, public office or authorized expert.
9th: Registers of merchandise of the ports.
(Article 45 pertains to the use of adhesive SELLO stamps and RECIBOS Y CUENTAS stamps. 
It is quoted hereafter in  connection with the stamps to which it pertains.)