Directory_and_Chronicle_1874 — Page 382

6 B

THE STAMP. ORDINANCE.

EXTRACT OF ORDER

MADE BY HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNC 3

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,

In Council, this Ninth day of June, 1868.

1.- It is hereby ordered that the Orders of the Governor in Council of the 28th September, 1867; the 4th October, 1867; the 18th October, 1867, and the 9th April, 1868, shall be and they are hereby revoked, from and after the 1st day of July now next ensuing, being the day fxcd by Froclamation of the Governor for the coming into operation of Ordinance No. 5 of 1368, and in lieu thereof, it is ordered that the Stamps to be used under Ordinance No. 12 of 1866 und Ordinance No. 5 of 1868 shall be from and after the last mentioned dates:-

2. First, Adhesive Stamps of the respective values of 2 cents, 3 cents, 25 cents, 80 cents, 50 cents, $1, and $1.50; and Secondly, Impressed or Embossed Stamps of the respective values of 2 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents, 25 cents, 30 cents, 50 cents, 75 cents, $1, ‍$1.50, $2, $2.50, $3, $4, $4.50, $5, $6, $6.50, $8.50, $10, $10.50, $20, $25, $40, $50, and a Stamp bearing the words "Adjudication Fee Paid."

3.-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.

4.- Each of the Seven kinds of Adhesive Stamps aforementioned shall be of the form, size, and material 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.

7.-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 Councils.

A DIGEST OF PENALTIES.

Sec. 7.-For drawing or negociating unstamped or insufficiently stamped Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, &c., a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or a sum equal to ten times the value of the Stamp omitted to be used, if the sum so calculated exceed Fifty Dollars.

Sec. 10.--For not obliterating Adhesive Stamps when used by cancelling them in a bone fide manner, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.

Sec. 12. For not affixing the proper adhesive Stamps on Bills of Exchange drawn out of the Colony, but payable in, before negociating the same, or failing to cancel the same in a bonâ fide manner, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.

Sec. 14. For drawing Bills purporting to be drawn in a set of two or more, and not drawing the whole number of the set, a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.

Sec. 16, c. 1.-If any Deed, Instrument, or Writing requiring to be stamped shall have been executed on paper not bearing the proper Stamp, upon the Collector being satisfied that the omission did not arise from any intention to evade payment of the prescribed duty, or to defraud the Government, it may be stamped on payment of the