Numb. 74. 829

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1875.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1875.

Notice, Rules and Regulations, under "The Stamp
Fee Act, 1875."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-third day of December, 1875.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Stamp Fee Act, 1875," it
is provided that the Governor in Council
may, by notice published in the New Zealand Gazette,
direct that, after the time specified in such notice, all
or any of the duties, fees, fines, or penalties for the
time being payable in money in any Public Depart-
ment or office connected with the public service, or
to the officers thereof, shall be collected by means of
stamps; and after the time so specified, the duties,
fees, fines, or penalties therein mentioned shall be
received by stamps denoting the sums payable, and
not in money:

And whereas it is further provided that all or
any stamps to be used under the said Act shall be
impressed or adhesive, as the Governor from time to
time directs:

And whereas it is further provided that the Gover-
nor in Council may make, alter, or repeal regulations
not contrary to the said Act for the due administra-
tion thereof, and may prescribe the application of
stamps to documents from time to time in use or
required to be used for the purpose of such stamps:

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 powers and authorities, doth hereby
give the notice, and make the rules and regulations
hereinafter contained, concerning the matters afore-
said:-

1. Duties, fees, fines, and penalties shall be collected
   by stamps under the said Act on and after the first
   day of January, 1876, in the departments following,
   that is to say: In all the offices of the Court of
   Appeal and of the Supreme Court in all its juris-
   dictions.

2. The documents specified in the First Schedule
   hereto shall be stamped with impressed stamps only,
   and for such adhesive stamps shall not be available;
   all others may be stamped with either an adhesive
   or impressed stamp: Provided that during the month
   of January, 1876, but not afterwards, adhesive
   stamps may be used for all or any document therein
   specified, anything hereinbefore contained to the
   contrary notwithstanding.

3. Every duty, fee, fine, or penalty payable in any
   of the above-named offices shall be paid by stamps
   impressed or affixed, as the case may be, to some
   paper or document, as hereinafter provided, having
   reference to that in respect of which the fee, fine, or
   penalty is payable.

4. Stamps for duties, fees, fines, or penalties pay-
   able in respect of the several matters specified in the
   first column of the Second Schedule hereto shall be
   impressed upon or affixed to the corresponding
   documents specified in the second column of the said
   Schedule.

5. Stamps for every other duty, fee, fine, or
   penalty payable in any of the above-named offices
   shall be impressed upon or affixed to a short written
   or printed note or præcipe, asking for that in respect
   of which such duty, fee, fine, or penalty is payable,
   and signed by or for the person by whom such duty,
   fee, or penalty is payable.

6. Before anything is done, or permitted to be
   done, in respect of that for which any duty, fee, fine,
   or penalty is payable by stamps, the stamps by which
   the fee is paid, if adhesive, shall be cancelled by the
   person using the same by writing or stamping in,
   into, on, or across the stamp his name or initials, or
   the name or initials of his firm, together with the
   true date of his so writing or stamping, so that the
   stamp may be effectually cancelled and rendered
   incapable of being used for any other purpose what-
   soever.

7. Stamps for denoting fees, &c., will be impressed
   at the Head Office on blank forms, and on paper not
   previously written upon. Requisitions from solici-
   tors and others for stamps must be accompanied by
   a receipt from the Bank of New Zealand for the
   amount of the requisition, and the forms and papers