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sufficient safeguard. Vhe less it is to the interest of the person applying for stamps to see that he gets a receipt, it cannot be expected that he will trouble himself as to whether receipto come to hand or not. What the appli- cant wants is the stamps. Staving these it is not probable that he will
Es Mer put himself to
any
trouble to see who your doo ther Government has or has not received in on: the annount it should. It is of possible, even probable, that some at any rate, of the firms might like to receive receipts, to serve both as a
messengers and vouchers,
check on their
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but this would not apply by any
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universally.
l, should.
(c) to be thorough,
- appt.; to all documents, instead of to a limited number, i.e. impressed stamps should be abolished in toto, Mr Mack. intosh's letter, in which, as is entirely. natural, almost all the shipping firmes
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concur, acks that the Government, ins. tead of making practically surd / by nears of a dated in pression) that Bills of Lading are duly stamped at the proper time, should for the future, hust the firm to put
on adhesive.
stamps of the proper value themselves,: and so save them the trouble of sand- ing to the Stamp Office.
The letter proceeds to state
that there is
no virtue in an
impressed
honesty, but it
stamp which ensures
ensures honesty,
amits to point out that, whereas aw
can he
adhesive stamp can
be affixed to a
- document by the holder at
any
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that it may appear advisable to do so,
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in case of its production in Court being required, impressed stamp cannot, after the lapes of a short in terval, be obtained without the pay. ment of a penalty running from double to hoonty times the amurent originally required', and not
ever
then,