THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH AUGUST, 1866.
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XXVIII. Every Person receiving payment of any sum of Money the receipt for which Expense of providing er this Ordinance requires a Stamp shall (if required) give a receipt bearing the Receipt, Stamps, &c. wer Stamp indicated by this Ordinance and shall bear the expense of furnishing the and in case of refusal, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars. The nse of providing the Stamp of any Bill of Exchange, Letter of Credit, Draft, Cheque a Banker or other Person, Promissory Note, or other Order or Obligation for the ment of Money (not being a Bond, Instrument or Writing bearing the attestation of or more witnesses) shall be borne by the Person making or drawing or negotiating
saine.
XXIX. Every provision contained in the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance shall Effect of provision of the same Force as if it were contained in the body of the Ordinance.
contained in the Schedules.
Stamp Duty or
XXX. The Governor in Council may from time to time by an order to be Governor in Council Mished in the Government Gazette direct that such lower rates of Stamp Duty as he may lower Rates of all prescribe shall be taken on all or any of the Deeds, Instruments or Writings altogether exempt the cified in the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance or altogether exempt the same and same, &c. like manner as occasion shall require cancel or vary such Order to the extent of the wers hereby given. Such cancelinent or variation shall also be notified in the Frernment Gazette.
Vendors,
XXXI. The Governor in Council may license, or cause to be licensed, Vendors Licensed Stamp Stamps and may direct how and under what conditions Stamps may be supplied to ach Vendors for sale, and what accounts of such Stamp shall be kept by them. The unse may be for any time and may at any time be revoked by the authority granting
the same.
XXXII. Every Licensed Vendor of Stamps shall at all times have his license License and Scheduler gether with a Copy of the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance and a translation thereof to be exhibited in Chinese affixed in a conspicuous situation in the place where he sells the Stamps and Stamp Vendor's Shop. default thereof shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars.
Vendor in issuing
XXXIII. Every Vendor of Stamps shall without delay deliver any Stamp which he Delay by Stamp sin his possession for sale on demand by any Person tendering the value in any stamps. rrency which the Vendor is duly authorized to receive in payment for Stamps on in of a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
consideration other
XXXIV. Any Vendor of Stamps who demands or accepts for any Stamp any Stamp Vendor sideration other than the value thereof in such currency as he is duly authorized to accepting any bceive in payment for Stamps shall be punished by a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, than that authorized. XXXV. Any Vender of Stamps who demands or accepts for any Stamp any Stamp Vendor sideration exceeding the value of such Stamp shall be punished by Imprisonment, excepting any Thor without Hard Labor, for a period not execeding Six Months or by a Fine not exceeding the value
eeding Ten times the value so demanded or accepted, or by both and it shall be in discretion of the Court passing the sentence to direct the value of the excess to be funded out of such Fine to any Person from whom such excessive consideration may ve been accepted.
of the Stamp.
refusing or omitting
XXXVI. Every Vendor of Stamps who shall refuse or omit to render any Stamp Vendor yount required from him or to permit the Collector of the Stamp Revenue or any to render Account or cer duly authorized by such Collector to inspect his Accounts or to examine the store to deliver balance of Stamps in his possession or who shall not upon the termination, revocation or resign- die him at
of his license, within such reasonable time as shall have been prescribed by the expiration of License. Hector of Stamp Revenue, make over to some Officer duly authorized to receive the
an Account of the Stamps entrusted to him for sale on the part of Government ther with any such Stamps remaining or which ought to be remaining for sale in hands and any balance of Cash which may be due from him to Government in respect h Stamps shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Two hundred and fifty Dollars to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labor, for any period not exceeding Six dar Months: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall exempt any Vendor of Stamps from any punishment provided by law for any embezzlement which he shall have been guilty, and it shall be lawful for a Magistrate of Police on application of the Collector of Stamp Revenue to issue a Warrant for the arrest of Vendor of Stamps offending in manner aforesaid and for the seizure of all Stamps Books of Account and Monies or Securities for Money and other Property which be found in his possession and the same shall be detained until the Accounts een such Vendor of Stamps and the Stamp Office shall have been adjusted and
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