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THE STAMP ORDINANCE.

THE "STAMP ORDINANCE, 1866."

[No. 12 or 1866.]

ORDERS

Made by Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, in Council, under Authority of the "Stamp Ordinance, 1866.”

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1867.

1.-The Stamps to be used shall be: First,-adhesive Stamps of the respective values of 3, 25, and 50 cents, and 1, 2, 3, and 10 dollars; Secondly,-impressed or em- bossed Stamps of the respective values of 10, 25, and 50 cents, and 1, 2, 24, 4, 41, 5, 6, 8, 10, 101, 20, 25, and 40 dollars. A Stamp hearing the words "Adjudication Fee Paid" shall also be used.

2.-All impressed Stamps shall be made and impressed 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 Seal of the Colony, which case shall be kept at the Stamp Office.

3. Each of the Seven kinds of Adhesive Stamps afore-mentioned, shall be of the form, size, and material of the specimen Stamps enclosed in a case for Public in- spection under the Seal of the Colony, which case shall be kept at the Stamp Office.

4.-Adhesive Stamps may be used for the documents specified in Section 1 of the Schedule to the "Stamp Ordinance, 1866"; for Bills of Exchange, specified in Section 3 of the Schedule, when drawn out of the Colony; Powers of Attorney under Section 8; Notes of Protest under Section 9; Receipts and Discharges under Section 11. They may also be used when the Duty on a Duplicate or Counterpart of a Deed, &c., under Clause 4, of Section 17, is under $10 and does not exceed $20; and when the Instru- ments referred to in Section 21 may be drawn out of the Colony: nothing herein con- tained shall, however, prevent it being lawful for impressed Stamps being used for these purposes, when such impressed Stamps can be obtained, or prevent the use of Adhesive Stamps in part payment of any duty where two or more Stamps are required, when the same cannot be made up by impressed Stamps.

5. The Stamp duty on Bank Notes specified in Section 2 of the said Schedule, shall, for the first half year subsequent to the commencement of Ordinance No. 12 of 1866, be only two-thirds of that declared to be leviable half-yearly under Section 2 of the said Schedule.

6. The Stamp duty on Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and other Obliga- tions, specified in Section 3 of the said Schedule, for the payment of Money not exceed- ing Fifty Dollars, shall, for the first half year subsequent to the commencement of the ɛaid Ordinance, be 50 cents, or, if drawn in sets, 25 cents for each part of a set.

7.-The Maximum Stamp duty payable on any one Letter or other Instrument of Hypothecation under Section 16 of the Schedule of the said Ordinance, shall not, dur- ing the first half year from the commencement of the Ordinance, exceed the sum of 25 dollars.

8. Stamps shall be impressed or embossed at the Stamp Office, and Adhesive Stamps sold between the hours of 10 A.M. and 3 P.M. every day, authorized holidays excepted.

Approved in Council,

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,

Governor.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of the Council.