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STAMPS . [ 16 OF 1886. ] 843

5. No bills of exchange in sets shall be stamped in which the words First
and Second, or First, Second, and Third are left blank, nor in which the
words Second of the same tenor and date being unpaid, or the like, are wholly
or partly left blank .
6. Every promissory note in the Chinese language shall bear an impressed
stamp of the value required by the schedule , which impressed stamp shall be
placed on the upper edge of a printed bordersimilar to the specimens enclosed
in a case for public inspection at the Stamp Office. All the writing of such
note must be within the said border, which is to be taken as part of the
impressed stamp required for such promissory note.
7. The size or shape of such border, and the devices or characters accom
panying it, may be varied from time to time at the discretion of the Collector.


Order made by the Governor in Council under section 5 of the 8th
October, gazetted the 9th October, 1886.

His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government is pleased to
order that the duty charged under article 17 of the schedule to Ordinance 16
of 1886, on a deed of assigument where no money consideration or a merely
nominal money consideration passes shall be $ 10 in cases where such deed of
assignment is merely confirmatory of an assignment of which the full convey .
ance duty has been paid.
The Collector of Stamp Revenue shall, unless the two deeds referred to in
the foregoing paragraph are comprised in one and the same document, denote
by an entry under his hand made upon the deed stamped with the $ 10 duty,
that the full conveyance duty (if more than $ 10 ) has been paid upon the
other.




Order made by the Governor in Council under section 5 of the 7th April,
gazetted the 9th April, 1887.

The Governor in Council is pleased to order that the duty charged under
article 8 of the schedule to Ordinance 16 of 1886 on a bill of exchange drawn
out of and payable on demand out of the Colony, when such bill of exchange
is negotiated within the Colony, shall be two cents.



Rules made by the Governor in Council under section 5 of the
14th March , gazetted the 21st March, 1891.

1. Postage stamps of the value of two cents may be used in lieu of
revenue stamps of the same value.
2. On and after the 1st day of July, 1891 , the value of the stamp required
for receipts, & c., under item No. 32 of the schedule to Ordinance No. 16 of
1886, shall be two cents instead of three cents as at present.