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Enclosure.

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Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council under section 4 of the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, Ordinance No. 8 of 1921, on the 11th day of May, 1021.

Heading No. 3 in the schedule to the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, is amended Agreements by the addition of the following exemption :-

(c) Agreement relating to the sale of goods..

relating to the sale of goods.

warrants.

The stamp duty on dividend warrants, whether expressed to be payable by Dividend the corporate body issuing the dividend warrant or by some other person, and whether payable within or without the Colony, shall be 10 cents for each dividend warrant, and shall be paid, by the corporate body issuing the dividend warrants, before issue, by means of impressed and dated stamps.

drawn onl

accounts

Bills of exchange, payable on demand, drawn within the Colony, by per- Bills of sons who are not bankers, on current accounts kept by such persons with ge bankers outside the Colony, shall be exempt from duty unless actually paid or current endorsed or in some manner negotiated within the Colony, and if so paid or tide the endorsed or negotiated within the Colony shall be chargeable with a duty of 10 Colony, cents, to be paid, before such payment, endorsement or negotiation, by means of adhesive stamps,

S. B. B. ACELDERRY,

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

11th May, 1991.

Clerk of Councils.

(Laid before the Legislative Council on the 23rd day of June, 1921.)

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