CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12] — Page 177

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ENCLOSURE.

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RECE

REG 10 NOV no

Memorandum on system to be adopted with a view to a better

Check being kept on Stamp Revenue,

1. The proposed system broadly is, that

by Legislative enactment, documents which at present have to

bear an impressed stamp or stamps should instead be stamped `

with an adhesive stamp or stamps such, stamps being cancelle

by means of a uniform embossed stamp.

2. If this system is to be carried out

for

we are of opinion that the adhesive stamps to be used, should

be of a distinctive nature and should not be available

any other purpose than for stamping documents which by the

existing law have to be stamped with impressed stamps or in

other words that no such adhesive stamps should ever be issu-

ed until they had been cancelled in the Stamp Office with the

embossing stamp.

3.

Our reasons for this are that by hay-

ing a distinctive stamp the precautions against forgery are

doubled as anyone wishing to commit a forgery would have to

make dies both for the adhesive stamps and for the embossing

stamp.

4. The correspondence which took place in

1895 is somewhat confused and it is difficult for those who

are