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The postage stamps would be supplied under table 5 of the Schedule and the stamp duty stamps under table 13 of the Schedule.
It will be necessary for the Colony to supply us with any vernacular, written in triplicate, which has to appear on the stamp.
It is, as you are aware, impossible to alter any of the existing plates.
Although $200 is the maximum stamp it is proposed to have, documents could be stamped with any duty by employing the requisite number of stamps to make up the desired total.
The presses in the Colony are not self-inking. They might, however, be employed temporarily, as suggested in the Colonial letter, by inking the dies by means of a hand roller. This is constantly done, where small quantities only are required; but, of course, should the quantities be large, self-inking presses would be an economy.
With reference to the enquiry as to the ink employed we beg to say that it is specially prepared by us for the Inland Revenue Department and is quick drying. Documents are constantly handed out immediately after being stamped. We could supply such ink in tubes containing about 1 lb. of ink at 5/2 per tube.
We have prepared the enclosed design for a double dated over-embossing die, and on Appendix hereto we hand you a specimen of a $2 Hong Kong stamp duty stamp over which we have stuck a tracing of the proposed over-embossment, to show the position which it should occupy on the stamp, and to give a general idea of the effect. It will be observed that...
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