NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 11

STAMP DUTIES.

SOME misapprehension appearing to exist as to the use of Impressed and Adhesive Stamps, and as to the Instruments to which Adhesive Stamps may be affixed, the Public is informed that

All Instruments liable to Stamp Duty should be written on parchment or paper previously stamped by the Commissioners with an Impressed Stamp; but the Instruments undermentioned, and no others, may instead be stamped with Adhesive Stamps by the persons making or signing such Instruments; provided the Stamps are affixed at the time of making or signing the Instrument :—

Agreements under hand only.
Agreements comprised in letters.
Bills of Lading.
Cheques on Banks or Bankers.
Drafts or Orders for payment of money when liable to the duty of one penny only.
Policies of Insurance.
Receipts for Money paid.

None of the Instruments above specified can, after they are made or signed, be stamped by the persons making or signing them.

Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes drawn out of but payable within the Colony, must be stamped by the holder with an Adhesive Stamp or stamps, but such Stamps must be affixed before presentation of such Bill for acceptance, and before indorsement, transfer, negotiation, or payment.

All other Instruments requiring to be stamped after execution must be stamped by the Commissioners; but the Commissioners are prohibited from so stamping any Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, or other Note, Draft, or Order for the payment of money.

All Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Drafts and Orders drawn within the Colony, must be written upon paper previously stamped by the Commissioners with an Impressed Stamp; except such Drafts or Orders as are liable to the duty of one penny only. These last, and no others, may be stamped with an Adhesive Stamp.

Impressed Stamps are obtainable at all Stamp Offices, and of all Postmasters acting as Official Distributors of Stamps.

C. T. BATKIN,
Secretary.
Office of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties,
Wellington, 1st January, 1870.

I, THE Undersigned, JAMES EDWIN GILLESPIE, hereby make application to register the "CHARLESTON PROGRESSIVE WATER RACE COMPANY," under the provisions of the "Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true in every particular, namely:—

1. The name and style of the Company is the "Charleston Progressive Water Race Company (Limited)."
2. The place of operations is in the district of Charleston, Province of Nelson.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is Three Thousand Pounds (£3000) in Six Hundred (600) Shares of Five Pounds (£5) each.
4. The amount already paid up is Nineteen Hundred and Forty Pounds (£1940).
5. The name of the Manager is James Edwin Gillespie.
6. The Office of the Company is on Deep Lead, Candlelight, Charleston.
7. The Names and several Residences of the Shareholders, and the Number of Shares held by each at this date, are as follows:—

Dated this Twentieth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and seventy.

JAMES EDWIN GILLESPIE,
Manager.

Witness to signature—
C. BROAD, R.M.

THIS is to give notice that the Business of Brewing, Malting, and Hop-growing, sometime carried on by CHARLES HARLEY, under the style or firm of HARLEY AND SONS, was the sole business of the undersigned up to 1st of January, 1869, at which date the Brewery passed to WILLIAM CHARLES HARLEY, who has since carried it on for his sole benefit; and as respects the Business of Malting and Hop-growing, the undersigned ceased to have any interest in it after the 1st July, 1869, when it was undertaken by THOMAS HALSTED HARLEY, who has since conducted it solely on his own behalf.

CHARLES HARLEY.
Grove House, Milton Grove,
December 30, 1869.

NOTICE.—All Rents and Interest now due to the undersigned, and which may hereafter become due, must be paid to him personally, or to such person as he may appoint by written authority to receive the same.

CHARLES HARLEY.
Grove House, Milton Grove,
December 30, 1869.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Nelson, by R. LUCAS AND SON, Bridge-street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.