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assessor's marking, being handed by the applicant to the
stamping clerk instead of, as with A, to the cashier.
5. In the case of cheque books containing more than one
cheque on each sheet, the stamping is effected by means of
a new multiplex machine giving up to five impressions with
each blow.
I enclose in duplicate the Department's instructions
for escutcheoning, which is effected where documents,
being executed on parchment, require some more forcible
method of impressing than that which suffices where the
material is paper.
7.
In company with Mr Colls I visited the City Branch
of the Inland Revenue Department, and was there shown
several Jarge recording machines. I learnt that the most
efficient would contain eight stamps,of different values
and record on the outside the number of times it had been
put into operation, on the inside the number of impressions
of each value effected.
I was, however, informed that even this machine would
be considerably slower in its operation than the double
process recommended by me, and which I found to be in ex-
istence at the Stock Exchange Branch of the Inland Revenue
Department.
8. At this latter office the volume of business trans-
acted is very large and consists principally of the issue
of A, Stamped forms of share transfers (for which no
charge beyond the value of the stamp is made)-B, Unstamped ditto (for each of which a charge of d is made). In the
case of A the forms are received by the Stock Exchange Branch from the Head Office ready wafered and bearing im-
pressed stamps running from 6a to £300. These stamps
show both value and date.
In the case of Bri.e. where uns tamped documents are
presented for stamping the applicant presents them, to-
gether with, as a rule, an I.0.U. for the amount due.
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