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E-ANGRONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH DECEMBER, 1884.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 433.

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, which were read a first, time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held I generd information.

Hongkong, 10th December, 1884.

BE'it

.

A BILL

TO AMEND

The Stamp Ordinance, 1884.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

Eit enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. Ordinance 15 of 1881 is hereby armended 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 P'ublic or other Office or by any Public Officer unless such document be stamped according to this Ordinance or in accordance with the law in force in the Colony at the time it was executed. Pro- vided that any Civil Court may direct the Collector to Stamp and receive the duty, and penalty if any, upon any document which may be stamped after execution 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 "

such stamping."

For the Court ordering

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 $

10,.........

50,

"

250,.

Free. .02 cents.

.05

31

39

500,

.10

33

"

$1,000,

.20

"2

$ 2,000,

.50

$ 3,000,.

$1.00

""

50

$ 5,000,.

$1.50

"

$10,000,.

.$2.00

"

$15,000,

.$3.00

Every $5,000 additional,

.$0.50

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Amendment

of Section 9,

Amendment

of Section 10.

Amendment

of Soleux la Article 5.

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.

A BILL

ENTITLED

The Bankers' Books Evidence Ordinance, 1884.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

Bit

1. Ordinance 7 of 1882 is hereby repealed.

2. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance a copy of . any entry in a banker's book shall in all legal proceedings be received as primâ facie evidence of such entry, and of the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded.

3. A copy of an entry in a banker's book shall not be received in evidence under this Act unless it he first proved that the book was at the time of making the entry one of the ordinary books of the bank, and that the entry was made in the usual and ordinary course of business, and that the book is in the custody or control of the bank. Such proof may be given by a partner or officer of the bank, and may be given orally or by an afidavit sworn before any person authorized to tuke affidavits,

Article 32.

Ordinance 7 of 1882 repealed. Copy of entry prima frie Eritre

Copy in be from ordinary back.