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ORDINANCE No. 16 OF 1886. 2007


Stamp.


4. Adhesive stamps may be used for the following classes of documents, and for
no others :
Bills of exchange drawn out of the Colony,
Cheques,
Renewals of policies of insurance,
Receipts ,
but impressed stamps may be used for any of the above documents.

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 border similar 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 accompanying
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 Stamp Ordinance,
(No. 16 of 1886) , the 8th October, and 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 assignment 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 conveyance 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 ofthe Stamp Ordinance
(No. 16 of 1886), the 7th and 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.