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THE STAMP ORDINANCE.
EXTRACT OF OF ORDER
MADE BY HIS|EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,
In Council, this Ninth day of June, 1868.
1-It is horeby ordered that the Orders of the Governor in Council of the 28th September, 1807; the 4th October, 1867; the 18th October, 1867, and the 9th April, 1868, shall bo and they are hereby evoked, from and after the 1st day of July now next ensuing, being the date fixed by Proclamation of the Governor for the coming into operation of Ordinance No. 5 of 1868, and in lieu theroof, it is ordered that the Stamps to be used under Ordinance No. 12 of 1860 aud Ordinance No. 5 of 1868 shall be from and after the last mentioned dates¡——
2. First, Adhesive Stumps of the respective values of 2 cents, 8 cents, 25 cents, 80 cents, 50 cents, $1, and $1.50; and Secondly, Impressed or Embossed Stamps of the respective values of 2 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents, 25 cents, 30 cents, 50 cents, 75 cents, $1, $1.50, $2, $2 50, $3, $4, $4.50, $5, 66, $6.50, $8.50, $10, $10.50, $20, $25, $40, $50, and & Stamp bearing the words "* Adjudication Fee Paid."
3.-All Impressed Stamps shall be made and icapressed in the Stamp Office in the City of Victoria on either paper or parchment, and shall be of the form and size of the specimen Stamps enclosed in a case for Public inspection under the Scal of the Colony, which case shall be kept at the Starop Oflice.
4.-Each of the Seven kinds of Adhesive Stamps aforementioned shall be of the form, size, and material of the specimen Stamps enclosed in a case for Public inspection under the Seal of the Colony, which case shall be kept at the Stamp Office.
6. Stamps shall be impressed or embossed at the Stamp Ollice, and Adhesive Stamps sold, between the hours of 10A.M., and 3 P.M., every day, authorized Holidays excepted.
Approved in Council,
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Governor.
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THE STAMP ORDINANCE. proper Stamp Duty, und us a penalty double the amount of the proper Stamp Duty or of the amount required to make up the same, if it be brought to the Collector within six weeks from the date of its execution.
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2.-If any Deed shall have been execated in anstamped or insufliciently stamped paper, and brought to be stamped after six weeks of exccation, but within four months of that date, treble the amount of the proper Stamp Duty, or of the amount required to make the same, as the Collector may determine.
If brought after four months, twenty times the amount of such Stamp Duty, or the amount required to make up the same, as the Collector may determine.
Sec. 23. In default of attaching a receipt stamp to any document given in receipt for money above Ten Dollars, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
Scc. 27. For not stating truly in every Instrument charged' under the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance with ad valorem duty, the umount of Purchase Moucy, a suni not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 1. c. 8 (Ordinanco 5 of 1868).—In_default of placing a 8_cent Stanıp, ou a receipt for any sum exceeding $10: Fifty Dollars.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
A DIGEST OF PENALTIES.
Sec. 7.-For drawing or negociating unstamped or insufficiently stamped Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, &c., a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or a sum equal to ten times the value of the Stamp omitted to be used, if the sum so calculated exceed Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 10.-For not obliterating Adhesive Stamps when used by cancelling them in bonú fide manner, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 12. For not affixing the proper adhesive Stamps on Bills of Exchange drawn out of the Colony, but payable in, before negociating the same, or failing to cancel the' same in a ború fule manner, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 14.-For drawing Bille purporting to be drawn in a set of two or more, and not drawing the whole number of the set, a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.
Sec. 16, c. 1.-If any Deed, Instrument, or Writing requiring to be stamped shall have been executed on paper not bearing the proper Stamp, upon the Collector being satisfied that the omission did not arise from any intention to evade payment of the prescribed duty, or to defraud the Government, it may be stamped on payment of the