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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH MARCII, 1884.

D.

Public Notice of Expiry of Farm.

The exclusive privilege of bailing and preparing opium and selling

and retailing opium so boiled or prepared will cease on

18 . No boiled or prepared opium purchased.

from us or our licensees can be used after

18

at noon, without the consent of the new holder of such exclusive pri- vilege as aforesaid,

(Signed)

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A BILL

ENTITLED

The Stamp Ordinance, 1884.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

Be advice of the Legislative Council thecus, esfollows

1. In the construction of this Ordinance the term Col- lector shall include the person for the time being appointed by the Governor to have the control and management of the Stamp Office.

Document shall mean any deed, instrument, or writing whatever.

Material shall mean paper or parchment. Excented and Execution, with reference to documents not under scal, shall mean signed and signature respectively.

2. The present Collector and all other Officers of the Stamp Office are hereby continued in their offices. There shall be one general Stamp Office for the Colony, and such subsidiary Stamp Offices as the Governor may from time to time in his discretion appoint.

3. The Governor may from time to time appoint and remove a Chief Officer who shall have the control and management of the Stamp Office, and such other Officers as may from time to time be required to carry on the busi- ness of the Stamp Ollice.

4. For every document executed after the coming into force of this Ordinance of any of the kinds specified by the Schedule as requiring stamps, there shall be payable to Government a Stamp Duty of the amount indicated in the said Schedule to be proper for such document.

Every provision contained in the said Schedule shall be of the same force as if it were contained in the body of this Ordinance.

5. The Governor in Council may from time to time make and when made, revoke, add to or alter rules, fixing lower rates of duty than those specified in the Schedule, or ex- empting from duty any of the documents mentioned in the Schedule, and prescribing the form, size, and material of the stamps to be used, and the mode and place of impressing, aflixing, or denoting thereupon the value of the same under the provisions of this Ordinance, and the manner of writing upon or filling up such Stamps, and authorising or prohibit- ing the use of adhesive stamps for any documents required to bear stamps, and generally for the execution of this Ordinance.

Penulties.

6. Every person who commits any of the following offences shall, on Summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding ouc hundred dollars, that is to say :-

1. Drawing, accepting, issuing, endorsing, negociating,

paying, or receiving payment of

bill of ex- ану change, promissory note, or other similar instru- ment, or making, executing, or signing (except as hereinafter provided) any document enumerated in the Schedule on unstamped or insufficiently stamped material.

2. Delivery out of his hands, custody, or power of any doenment upon which an adhesive stamp has been affixed under this Ordinance without cancelling The said stamp so that it cannot he used again. 3. Any breach of thi. Ordinance not specially provided

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Preamble.

Definiti..as.

Document.

Material.

Execution.

Officers continu. L

Office Subsititary offices

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Governor izt Commeil en lower or abel- ish duries. (12 01 1906, i 25.)

May nike rules. (See 12 of Fires, 3. and 9.

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