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(1) Where, in case of any of sale, mortgage, 2 [agreement or any other document (memorandum etc.) relating to the deposit of title deeds] or settlement, several instruments are employed for completing the transaction, only the principal instrument shall be chargeable with the duty prescribed for it in the Schedule 3 [and each of the other instruments shall be chargeable with a duty of two hundred rupees instead of the duty, if any, prescribed for it in that Schedule.] (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 instrument so determined shall be the highest duty which would be chargeable in respect any of the said instruments employed.