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the Stock Exchange Branch of the Inland Revenue Department takes the form of a narrow scroll only, and, if this were
doubled, somewhat in this fashion
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viz: the emboss-
it seems to me that the object aimed at ing of the date on both the stamp and the document could
be effected in a much smaller space. It may be urged
that so simple an embossment would be easy of imitation, but, if it were made a rule that no revenue stamp should
Jeave the Stamp office until it had been over-embossed
with the date, that danger would be very much lessened.
I should be glad also to know whether the adoption of Singly Fugitive pro Doubly Fugitive inks for the ad- hesive revenue stamps would not prove equally satisfactory
and more economical, in view of the fact that the stamps
will always be cancelled by printing-ink in the over-em-
bossing process, and that, in addition to the stamps being more staple, greater variation of colour could be obtain-
ed by the use of singly fugitive inks.
From
Crown Agents
N. G. Mitchell-Innes.
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Messrs De La Rue & Co.
31st. August 1895.
We enclose for your further report a letter (with pre-
vious correspondence) that we have received from the
Treasurer of Hong-Kong relative to the supply of a dating
machine and adhesive stamps.
TO
From
Messrs De La Rue & Co.
Crown Agents
14th. September 1895.
Owing to two sets of plugs being necessary for the
embossing die, it is impossible for us to make it as
row es the Stock Exchange one. We cannot get two sets of
plugs/
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