stamps to be presumed guilty until
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(3.) Provided that if at any time within six mouths after the delivery any person makes out to the satisfaction of the Collector that any stamps so forfeited were stolen or otherwise fraududently obtained from him such stamps may be delivered up to him.
Licensed
18.-(1.) If auy forged stamps are found in the posses- person in
sion of any person appointed to sell and distribute stamps, possession of
or being or having been licensed to deal in stamps, that forged
person shall be deemed and taken, unless the contrary is satisfactorily proved, to have had the same in his possession knowing them to be forged, and with intent to sell, use, or utter them, and shall be liable to the punishment imposed by law upon a person selling, using, uttering, or having in possession forged stamps knowing the same to be forged.
such person
contrary is shown. ib. s. 18.
Mode of pro- reeding
(2.) If a Magistrate has cause to suspect any of having in his possession any forged stamps, he may by warrant under his hand authorise any European Police Officer to enter between the hours of nine in the morning and seven in the evening into any house, room, shop, or building of or belonging to the suspected person, and if on demand of admittance, and notice of the warrant, the door of the house, room, shop, or building, or any inner door thereof, is not opened, the authorised Police Officer may break open the same and search for and seize any stamps that may be found therein or in the custody or possession of the sus- pected person.
(3.) All Police Officers are hereby required, upon request by any person so authorised, to aid and assist in the execu tion of the warrant,
(4.) Any person who-
(.) Refuses to permit any such search or seizure to
be made as aforesaid; or
(b.) Assaults, opposes, molests, or obstructs any per- son so authorised in the due execution of the powers conferred by this section or any person acting in his aid or assistance,
and any Police Officer who upon any such request as afcre- said, refuses or neglects to aid and assist any person so authorised in the due execution of his powers shall incur a fine of five hundred dollars.
16. Where stamps are seized under a warrant, the per- son authorised by the warrant shall, if required, give to the when stamps person in whose custody or possession the stamps are found an acknowledgment of the number, particulars, and amount of the stamps, and permit the stamps to be marked before the removal thereof.
are seized.
ib. s. 19.
As to deface- ment of adhesive stamps.
b. s. 20.
Penalty for frauds in relation to
inties.
ib. s. 21.
As to dis-
of dies. ib. a 22.
17. Every person who by any writing in any manner defaces any adhesive stamp before it is used shall incur a fiue of fifty dollars: Provided that any person may with the express sanction of the Collector, and in con- formity with the conditions which he may prescribe, write upon or otherwise appropriate an adhesive stamp before it is used for the purpose of identification thereof,
18. Any person who practises or is concerned in any fraudulent act, contrivance, or device, not specially pro- vided for by law, with intent to defraud His Majesty of any duty shall incur a fine of five hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous.
19. Whenever the Collector determines to discontinue continuance the use of any die, and provides a new die to be used in lien thereof, and gives public notice thereof in the Gazette, then from and after any day to be stated in the notice (such day not being within one month after the same is so published) the new die shall be the only lawful die for denoting the duty chargeable in any case in which the discontinued die would have been used; and overy instrument first executed by any person, or bearing date after the day so stated, and stamped with the discontinued die, shall be deemed to be not duly stamped:
Provided as follows;
(a.) If any instrument stamped as last aforesaid, and first exccuted after the day so stated at any place out of the Colony, is brought to the
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