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RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE,

THE FOLLOWING RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE

ARE PUBLISHED FOR GENERAL INFORMATION.

1.-The Office will be open for the transaction of business from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. every day (Sunday and authorised holidays excepted.)

2.-All applications for Impressed Stamps must be made upon a printed form of requisition, which will be supplied gratuitously.

3.-Adhesive Stamps can be obtained upon payment, without requisition. 4-Payment for Impressed Stamps must be made on presentation of the requisition, which must be accompanied by the "goods," i.e., the paper printed forms, parchment, or documents tendered with it for the purpose of being impressed.

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" will 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.

8.-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, within Six Months after they have been spoiled or rendered useless.

10.-Spoiled Stamps on executed Instruments.

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 bis 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.

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.