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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST JANUARY, 1885.

[L.S.]

G. F. BOWEN.

Aurzale ont vi Koetion S.

Amendment

Section 191,

Amewiment

Article 8.

No. 2 or 1885.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong

kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Stamp Ordinance, 1884.

[25th January, 1885.]

B

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. Ordinance 15 of 1881 is herchy amended as follows, viz.:-

For Section 9 substitute the following Section

9. Except as otherwise provided by this Or- dinance, no document liable to Stamp Duty under this Ordinance shall be received as creating, trans- ferring, or extinguishing any right or obligation, or as evidence in any civil proceeding in any Court of Justice in the Colony, or shall be acted upon, registered, or authenticated in any such Court or L'ablie or other Office or by any Public Officer unless such document be staniped according to this Ordinance or in accordance with the law in force Pro- in the Colony at the time it was executed. vided that any Civil Court may dircet the Collector to Stamp and reecive the duty, and penalty if any, upon any document which may be stamped after excention under this Ordinance. Such duty and penalty shall be paid into Court and shall be remitted to the Collector with the document to be stamped after such document has been admitted in evidence.

In Section 10 strike out the words "or the Court ordering such stamping."

In Article 8 of the Schedule strike out the words and figures in the second column of the second clause of that Article and substitute the following :-

Under $

From $

**

10,..........

10 to

50,

50 to $

250, ...

250 to $.500, . .10

Free.

.02 cents.

.05

و,

500 to $1,000, .20

AN

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وو

$ 1,000 to $ 2,000, ... .50

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$ 2,000 to $.3,000....$1.00

"

وو

$ 3,000 to $ 5,000, ...$1.50

""

+9

$ 5,000 to $10,000, ...$2.00

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$10,000 to $15,000,...$3.00

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Article 32

Every $5,000 additional,. ..$0.50 **

In Article 32 of the Schedule add the following Exemp-

tion:

Receipt given by any Officer or Soldier of Her Majesty's forces stationed in the Colony for money paid out of Impe- rial Revenue,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Aeting Clerk of Councils,