13. But Bills, &c., wherein any error or mistake has been made will be allowed also, although they may have been accepted or tendered for acceptance, provided the claimant produces the Bill which have been substituted for them within Six Months after the date of the spoiled ones.
14.-Applications for allowances for Spoiled Stamps will be entertained every Friday between Noon and 3 P.M.
15.-In cases where paper, printed or plain, or parchment, &c., is spoiled in stamping, it will be destroyed, the applicants finding at their own cost the additional paper, &c., required.
16.-The Stamps will be impressed upon any part of the Documents indicated, where it may be practicable with security to the Revenue, a point which in case of dispute will be decided by the Collector of Stamps.
17. To prevent inconvenience a few Blank Forms of Bills of Exchange or Bills of Lading may be left at the Stamp Office by persons requiring Impressed Stamps to supply any deficiency which may have occurred in counting, or to re-place any which may have been spoiled in stamping.
18. All Impressed Stamps will bear the date on which they are impressed.
19.--The Officers of the Stamp Office are not responsible for any loss or damage which may occur to any Deed, Instrument, or Writing sent in for the purpose of being stamped, unless the same occurs willfully, fraudulently, or by gross negligence.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Collector of Stamp Revenue.
In 11801/19.
Extract from Minutes of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, held on the 28th of September, 1867.
Stamp Office, Hongkong, 4th October, 1867,
Present:
"His Excellency Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell, C.B.
The Honorable Colonel Swaier,
Commandant of the Garrison.
"The Honorable F. C. Smith,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
"The Honorable Henry John Bell,
Acting Attorney General.
The Council meets this day at 11.30
13. But Bills, &c., wherein any error or mistake has been made will be allowed also, although they
may have been accepted or tendered for acceptance, provided the claimant produces the Bil which have been substituted for them within Six Months after the date of the spoiled ones. 14.-Applications for allowances for Spoiled Stamps will be entertained every Friday between Noo
and 3 P.M.
15.-In cases where paper, printed or plain, or parchment, &c., is spoiled in stamping, it will be destroyed, the applicants finding at their own cost the additional paper, &c., required.
16.-The Stamps will be impressed upon any part of the Documents indicated, where it may be practicable with security to the Revenue, a point which in case of dispute will be decided by the Collector of Stamps.
17. To prevent inconvenience a few Blank Forms of Bills of Exchange or Bills of Lading may be left at the Stamp Office by persons requiring Impressed Stamps to supply any deficiency which may have occurred in counting, or to re-place any which may have been spoiled in stamping.
18. All Impressed Stamps will bear the date on which they are impressed.
19.--The Officers of the Stamp Office are not responsible for any loss or damage which may occur to any Deed, Instrument, or Writing sent in for the purpose of being stamped, unless the same occurs willfully, fraudulently, or by gross negligence.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Collector of Stamp Revenue.
In 11801 /19.
Extract from Minutes of the Recentive Council of Hong Kong, held on the
28th of September, 1867.
Stamp Office. Hongkong, 4th October, 1867,
Present!
"His Sxcellency Covernader Richard
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Graves MacDonnell, C. B._
The Honorable Colonel Sawler,
Commandant of the Garrison.
"The bonentle fecil C. Smith,
Acting Colonial Secretary. "The Honorable Henry John Bell,
aching Attorney Generah, –
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