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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE 24TH MAY, 1884.

Impounding tusamn! daveins ent. ESL 19, 9.

2.

Linit of ploceptions,

Repeal

Suspenting

claire,

Procedure.

21. It shall be lawful for all Courts and Magistrates, and for the Collector, and for all persons employed for the sale and distribution of stamps, and they are hereby required to take possession of any document as to which any breach of the laws relating to Stump Duties may appear to have been committed, and to deliver the same to the Collector to be used in proseenting the Offender.

22. No person shall be procecided against under section 6 or 7 of this Ordinance except within two years from the date of the offence nor without the consent of the Attorney General.

23. Ordinnuces No. 12 of 1866 and No. 5 of 1868 and all orders in Conneil made thereunder are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done or suffered thereunder or any prosecution or any other pro- eeeding for any thing done contrary to the provisions of the same, while the same were in force.

24. This Ordinance shall come into force on a lay is be fixed by Proclamation by the Governor,

J. II. STEWart LocknaRT,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

SCHEDULE

of the proper Stamps for such Documents as require to be stamped under this Ordinance.

NOTE-A dument containing or relating to several distinet matters is to be separately and distinctly charged with duty in respect of each of such matters. Any dornament Hable to stamp duty under more than one article of this Schedule shall be charged under that article which im- poses the highest duty.

1. Adjudication as to the amount of stamp duty to be levied on any document,.

2. Agreement, or any minute' or memorandum of an agreement, not being under seal, or of the na- ture of an obligation for the pay- ment of money, and not specially charged with duty under this sche- dule, whether the same be only evidence of a contract, or obliga- tory on the parties; or in the case of letters offered in evidence to prove an agreement, any one of

"Such letters................

$1.

50 cents.

Note. Agreements as to letting or tenancy are in all cases charge-

able as leases. See articles 22 and 24.

Agreement or Contract accom-

panied with the deposit of Title Deeds to pay immovable property or for securing the payment or re- payment of any money or stock, ..

See Mortgage, 20,

Exemptions-Label, slip, or memorandum containing the Ieuils of any Insurance to be effected by means of a duly stumped Policy or Risk Note.

Mimorandum, letter, or agreement made for or relating to the sale of any goods, wures, or merchandise, or to the sule of any shares in any public company, not being a Broker's note or document giren by a Broker.

Saamn's advance not, or memorandum, or agreement made between the master and mariners of any ship for wages,

Emigration Contract.

Passage Ticket.

3. Arbitration Award,.

$1.

4. Articles of Clerkship, or) Contract whereby any person shall first berome band to serve as a clerk in order to his admission as an Attorney or solicitor,

Assignment, By way of secu- rity, or of any security,

Upon a sale,

$50.

See Mortgage, 26.

See Conveyance, 14.