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ORDINANCES Nos. 2 AND 3 OF 1885.

Stamp.

Bankers' Books Evidence.

or extinguishing any right or obligation, or as evidence in any civil proceed- ing in any Court of Justice in the Colony, or shall be acted upon, registered, or authenticated in any such Court or public 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. Provided 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 "of the Court ordering such stamping."

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:

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Amendment of section 10.

Amendment of schedule article 8.

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Every $ 5,000 additional,

$0.50

In article 32 of the schedule add the following exemption:--

Receipt given by any officer or soldier of Her Majesty's forces stationed in the

Colony for money paid out of Imperial Revenue.

[Repealed by Ordinance No. 16 of 1886.]

Article 32.

No. 3 of 1885.

An Ordinance entitled The Bankers' Books Evidence Ordinance, 1885.

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[29th January, 1885.]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative

Council thereof, as follows:-

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 Ordinance 7 of 1882 is hereby repealed.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 prima facie evidence of such entry, and of the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded.

Ordinance 7 of 1882 repealed. Copy of entry prima facie evidence.