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STAMPS . ( 16 of 1886.] 831

4. For every document executed after the coming into force Daty payable
of this ordinance of any of the kinds specified by the schedule under sche
as requiring stamps, there shall be payable to government a
stamp duty of the amount indicated in the said schedule to be
proper for such document.
Every provision contained in the said schedule shall be of
the same force as if it were contained in the body of this ordi
nance .


5. The Governor in Council may from time to time make Governor in
and when made, revoke, add to or alterrules, fixing lower rates Cover ormay
of duty than those specified in the schedule , or exempting froin abolish duties.
duty any of the documents mentioned , in the schedule, and rules.
May make
prescribing the form , size , and material of the stamps to be used,
and the mode and place of impressing, affixing, or denoting
thereupon the value of the same under the provisions of this
ordinance, and the manner of writing upon or filling up such
stamps, and authorising or prohibiting the use of adhesive
stamps for any documents required to bear stamps, and generally
for the execution of this ordinance.
Penalties.
6. Every person who commits any of the following offences Penalties for
shall, on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be 100-stamp
ing, &c .
liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, that is
to say :
1. Drawing; accepting, issuing, endorsing, negociating,
paying, or receiving payment of any bill of exchange,
promissory note, or other similar instrument, or mak
ing, executing, or signing (except as hereinafter
provided ) any document enumerated in the schedule
on unstamped or insufficiently stamped material.
2. Delivery out of his hands, custody, or power of any
document upon which an adhesive stamp has been
affixed under this ordinance without cancelling the
said stamp so that it cannot be used again.
3. Any breach of this ordinance not specially provided for.
7. Every person who commits any of the following offences Penalties for
shall , on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be frauls.
liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, that is to
say :
1. Drawing any bill of exchange purporting to be drawn
in a set of two or more without drawing on duly
stamped material the whole number ofbills constituting
such set .