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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1882.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 480.

STAMP DUTIES.

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The following Additional Order of the Governor in Council is published under the provisions of Ordinances 12 of 1866 and 5 of 1868.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th December, 1882.

ORDINANCES 12 OF 1866 AND 5 OF 1868.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Additional Order made by the Governor in Council,

this 15th day of December, 1882.

Whereas on the 9th day of June, 1868, it was (amongst other things) ordered by the Governor in Council under and by virtue of the provisions in that behalf contained in the above mentioned Ordinances that all Impressed Stamps should be made and impressed in the Stamp Office, in the city of Victoria, on either paper or parchment, and should be of the form and size of the Specimen Stamps enclosed in a case for public inspection under the Seal of the Colony, which case should be kept at the Stamp Office, and whereas it has been deemed expedient by the Governor in Council, that the Order so made should under the provisions of the said Ordinances be altered and varied to the extent, and in the manner hereinafter specified, it is ordered by the Governor in Conncil, as follows:-

(1.) Promissory Notes in the Chinese language shall be made upon Chinese paper only. (2.) Such Chinese paper shall bear an Impressed Stamp of the value required by the Schedule to Ordinance 5 of 1868, which Impressed Stamp shall be placed upon the upper border of a blank printed form similar to that hereto annexed.

(3.) All the writing of such Chinese Promissory Notes must be within the border of the said form in each case, and such border is to be taken as part of the Impresed Stamp required for such Promissory Notes.

(4.) The size or shape of such border, and the devices or characters accompanying it, may

be, from time to time, varied at the discretion of the Collector of Stamp Revenue, subject to the provisions of Section 28 of Ordinance 12 of 1866.

Approved in Council,

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局總印厘

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councils.