Humb. 70. 789

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1875.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1875.

Regulations under "The Stamp Act, 1875."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth
day of December, 1875.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Stamp Act, 1875," it is en-
acted that the Governor may, by Order in
Council, from time to time make regulations, not in-
consistent with the provisions of the said Act, for the
conduct of all persons concerned in the administration
thereof, and generally for carrying the said Act into
effect:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in pursuance and exercise of
the above-recited power and authority, doth hereby
make the Regulations contained in the Schedule
following.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS.

1. The Head Office of the Department, being the
   office of the Commissioner, shall be at Welling-
   ton; Stamp Offices being offices of Deputy Com-
   missioners shall be established in the chief towns of
   provinces.

2. At the Offices so constituted, adhesive and im-
   pressed stamps will be sold on requisition, and
   stamps will be officially affixed to and impressed on
   deeds and other instruments.

3. The Stamp Offices will, unless otherwise
   directed, be open to the public, for the issue of
   stamps and receipt of money, at 10 a.m., and will
   close to the public at 4 p.m. on every working day
   except Saturday, when they will close at 12.30 p.m.

4. All Postmasters, Sub-Postmasters, and Managers
   of Banks are hereby authorized to sell any stamps
   deposited with them by the Commissioner for sale.

5. All Licensed Dealers are required to sell to the
   public for cash any stamps in their possession, on de-
   mand, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on
   every day except Sundays and holidays. Depositaries
   are required to sell in like manner at any time during
   office hours.

6. Stamps for denoting duties without the use of
   an adhesive stamp will be impressed on blank forms
   of affidavits, cheques, drafts, or orders, bills of ex-
   change, promissory notes, receipts, bills of lading,
   charter-parties, transfers, policies of insurance, and
   others, and on paper and parchment not previously
   written on; but such stamps will be impressed only
   at the Head Office.

7. All applications for stamps at the Stamp Offices
   (except those relating to legacy, succession, and
   residuary duty under former Acts) must be made by
   requisition in the forms A and B in the Appendix
   hereto for duty stamps, and C and D for fee stamps.

8. Applications for stamps amounting in the
   whole to less than £2 cannot be received at the
   Stamp Offices except for stamps to be affixed by the
   Department, and all stamps must be paid for in cash
   at the time of application.

9. A commission in the form of discount will be
   allowed on all duty stamps purchased at the Stamp
   Offices, after the following scale: - To Licensed
   Dealers, and to the persons hereinbefore named as
   being authorized to sell stamps deposited with them
   for sale, £4 per centum on all purchases of £2 and
   upwards. To all other persons, £2 10s. per cent. on
   all purchases of £5 and upwards.

10. Persons requiring stamps to be impressed on
    paper or parchment not previously written on must
    provide the paper or parchment, and mark distinctly
    on or near the place where they desire the stamp to
    be impressed, the particular denomination of stamp
    they require.

11. Neither the Commissioner nor his officers shall
    be held responsible for any loss by reason of any
    stamped parchment or paper being obtained by a
    person not legally entitled thereto.

12. All instruments required to be stamped after
    the same shall have been executed must be left at a
    Stamp Office (together with an abstract of the par-
    ticulars of such instrument in the form E in the
    Appendix hereto) in order that the duty payable and
    any fine chargeable thereon may be determined; and
    on the payment of the duty and fine assessed thereon