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RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE.

5.-Requisitions for Impressed Stamps will be executed in the order in which they are received, and when it is not possible to complete a requisition in a short time after it is put in, a time will be named at which the "goods" will be ready; in such cases a receipt on a printed form will be given for the requisition, and the "goods" be delivered on presentation of that receipt only.

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6.-All"goods" and money given in change should be counted and examined before they are removed from the Counter, as no question as to wrong count of the

goods" or of the weight or goodness of the money will be entertained afterwards.

7.-For the present it is not intended to issue Impressed Stamps except upon paper, &c., sent in by the Public.

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Spoiled Stamps on unexecuted Instruments.

1.-Allowance will be made for Stamps upon Instruments which have been spoiled by some error in the writing;

2 —Or defaced by some accident;

3. Or which have been rendered useless by some unforeseen circum- stances before they have been completed or rendered fit for their intended purpose. 9. The claim for such Stamps must be made by Affidavit, by the owner, Six Months after they have been spoiled or rendered useless.

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Spoiled Stamps on executed Instruments.

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1.-Allowance will be made for Stamps on Instruments which are found unfit for the purpose originally intended by reason of any mistake or error therein;

2.—Or which cannot be completed in the form proposed by the death of any Person whose signature is necessary;

3. Or by reason of the refusal of any Person to sign the same. 11.-The claim for Stamps on executed Instruments must be made within Six Months after they shall have been signed, and the substituted Deeds, if any, must be produced duly stamped.

12.-Stamps on Bills of Exchange or Promissory Notes when signed by the drawer or maker will be allowed if they have not been out of his hands, and have not been accepted or tendered for acceptance.

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 Bills which have been substituted for them within Six Months after the date of the spoiled ones.

Friday, between Noon and 3 P.M.

14.-Applications for allowances for Spoiled Stamps will be entertained every 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 wilfully, fraudulently, or by gross negligence.

F. W. MITCHELL,

Stamp Office, Hongkong, 14th October, 1867.

Collector of Stamp Revenue.

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