THE STAMP ORDINANCE.

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proper Stamp Duty, and as a pen. ty 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.

2. If any Deed shall have been executed on unstamped or insufficiently stamped paper, and brought to be stamped after six weeks of execution, but within four months of that date, treble the amount of the proper Stamp Duty, or of the amount. required to make up 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.

Sec. 27. For not stating truly, in every Instrument charged under the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance with ad valorem duty, the amount of Purchase Money, a sum not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dolars.

Sec. 1, c. 3 (Ordinance 5 of 1868).-In default of placing a 8 cent Stamp on a receipt for any sum exceeding $10: Fifty Dollars.

ADDITIONAL

ORDER

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Council, this 28th Day of October, 1878, under Authority of "The Stamp Ordinance, 1866."

IN THE SUPREME COURT, SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

The Stamp Duty payable on Foreign Attachment Bonds shall be as follows :-

In every Case of $500 and upwards,

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$250 and under $500, under $250,

.$5.00

2.50

1.00

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