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ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1884 . 1807


Stamp.

20. Every person who is convicted of any felony under this Ordinance shall be Penalties.
liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not
exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term
not exceeding two years with or without hard labour. And every person who is con
victed of any misdemeanor under this Ordinance shall be liable, at the discretion of
the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without
hard labour.


Procedure.

21. It shall be lawful for all Courts and Magistrates, and for the Collector, and Impounding
unstamped docu
for all persons employed for the sale and distribution of stamps, and they are hereby ments.
[5 of 1868, s. 2.]
required to take possession of any document as to which any breach of the laws
relating to stamp duties may appear to have been committed, and to deliver the same
to the Collector to be used in prosecuting the offender .

22. No person shall be proceeded against under section 6 or 7 of this Ordinance Limit of prosecu
tions.
except within two years from the date of the offence nor without the consent of the
Attorney General.

23. Ordinances No. 12 of 1866 and No. 5 of 1868 and all orders in Council made Repeal.
thereunder are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done
or suffered thereunder or any prosecution or any other proceeding for any thing done
contrary to the provisions of the same, while the same were in force.

24. This Ordinance shall come into force on a day to be fixed by proclamation Suspending
clause.
by the Governor.



SCHEDULE

of the proper stamps for such documents as require to be
stamped under this Ordinance.
NOTE. -A document containing or relating to several distinct matters is to be separately and distinctly
charged with duty in respect of each of such matters. Any document liable to stamp duty
under more than one article of this schedule shall be charged under that article which
imposes the highest duty.



1. Adjudication as to the amount of stamp $1.
duty to be levied on any document,.……………….. J

2. Agreement, or any minute or memo
randum of an agreement, not being under seal, or
of the nature of an obligation for the payment of
money, and not specially charged with duty 50 cents
under this schedule, whether the same be only evi
dence of a contract, or obligatory on the parties ;
or in the case of letters offered in evidence to
prove an agreement, any one of such letters, ......
NOTE.-Agreements as to letting or tenancy are in all cases chargeable
as leases. See articles 22 and 24.