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6. The plates shall be kept in the custody of the Govern-
   ment Printer, who shall be responsible for printing the
   stamps. He shall keep a register in which he shall record
   all necessary information relative to the history of every
   plate. He shall hand the plates to the Stamp Printer as
   required, who shall at the end of each day place them under
   lock and key until the completion of each order, when he
   shall return them to the custody of the Government Printer.

7. Obsolete and spoiled dies and plates shall be destroyed
   in the presence of officers of the Stamp, Printing, and Audit
   Departments, and shall be written off the respective registers
   accordingly.

8. Water-marked paper for adhesive stamps and postal
   notes shall be procured only on the order of the Secretary.
   The paper shall be bound in books, perforated and numbered
   in duplicate on sheet and butt in series of consecutive
   numbers.

9. The packages of paper shall on arrival be opened by
   the Secretary or his deputy in the presence of an officer of
   the Audit, who shall together count the sheets and certify
   to the quantities received. The paper shall remain in the
   custody of the Secretary under lock and key. The Secretary
   shall keep a register of the receipt and issue of all such paper.

10. The Secretary shall issue the paper to the Government
    Printer only on the requisition of the Custodian of Stamps,
    who shall state the denominations and numbers of the
    stamps with which he requires to be supplied; and the
    Secretary shall issue to the Government Printer, from time to
    time, only so many sheets of paper as are necessary to
    print the stamps specified in the requisition; and the
    Government Printer shall issue to the Stamp Printer from
    day to day such paper as may be required.

11. The Government Printer shall forward all adhesive
    stamps when printed (together with all spoiled sheets) to the
    Custodian of Stamps. The Custodian shall issue all stamps,
    other than beer-duty stamps, to the Deputy Commissioners
    on requisitions received from them and approved by the
    Secretary of Stamps, and to Chief Postmasters on their
    requisitions approved by the Secretary to the Post Office.
    All spoiled sheets shall be destroyed in the presence of the
    Custodian and an officer of the Audit.

The Custodian shall issue beer-duty stamps to the Collectors
of Customs on their requisitions approved by the Secretary
for Trade and Customs.

III.—GENERAL.

12. (1.) The above regulations shall apply to the creation
    and issue of impressed stamps, adhesive stamps, postal notes,
    post-cards, letter-cards, and newspaper wrappers.

(2.) Whenever a requisition is supplied a corresponding
receipt shall be given by the person to whom such requisi-
tion is supplied.

IV.—OF THE AUDIT OF STAMPS.

13. The stock of stamps held by the Custodian shall be
    audited at least once in each year.

14. The returns hereinafter mentioned shall be made by
    the under-mentioned officers severally at the periods stated
    in respect of each :—

Return A. By the Secretary for Stamps to the Audit,
weekly; showing the total value of impressed and adhesive
stamps, including exchanges and spoiled stamps, received
and disposed of during the week, supported by the certifi-
cates of officers of the Audit and Stamp Departments of the
stamps destroyed, and by the requisitions for stamps and
the receipts of those to whom they have been supplied.

Return B. By the Head Stamper of Impressed Stamps to
the Audit, weekly; showing the total value of the impressed
stamps created by him each day.

Return C. By the Accountant to the Stamp Office: Copy
of his Weekly Cash-book to the Treasury, and thence to
the Audit, showing the amount received from the sale of
impressed stamps.

Return D. By each Deputy Commissioner to the Audit,
monthly; showing the total value of all stamps on hand at
the beginning of each period, received and issued, and on
hand at the end of each period, including exchanges and
spoiled stamps. This return is to be made up to the last
Saturday in each month.

Return E. By each Deputy Commissioner to the Treasury:
Copy of his Weekly Cash-book, showing his receipts each
day, supported by the requisitions for all stamps issued, and
the number of stamps of each denomination.

Return F. By each Deputy Commissioner to the Audit,
monthly; showing the number and value of each denomina-
tion of stamps in his hand on the last Saturday in each
month, supported by a certificate by the Deputy Commis-
sioner and an officer of the Audit that the stock named in such return has been counted and
found correct.

Return G. By the Manager or Accountant of each bank or
branch bank receiving impressed stamps on credit, to the
Secretary for Stamps, quarterly; showing the value of the
stamps on hand at the beginning of the quarter, received,
sold, spoiled, and on hand at the end of the quarter, together
with the amount of the quarterly remittance. The Secretary
for Stamps shall forward this return to the Audit.

Return H. By the Secretary for Stamps to the Audit,
monthly, of the number of sheets of water-marked paper,
newspaper-wrapper paper, and post-card and letter-card paper
on hand at the beginning of the month, received, issued, and
on hand at the end of the month; supported by the requisi-
tion of the Custodian of Stamps for each issue, and the
receipt of the Government Printer for the same.

Return I. By the Government Printer to the Secretary for
Stamps, monthly, of the number of sheets of paper of each
description on hand at the beginning of each month, printed,
spoiled, and on hand at the end of the month; supported by
the receipts of the Custodian of Stamps for the stamps and
spoiled sheets received by him. The Secretary for Stamps
shall forward this return to the Audit.

Return J. By the Custodian of Stamps to the Audit,
monthly, of the number of stamps in hand of each de-
nomination at the beginning of the month, and the number
received, issued, and destroyed each day during the month,
and the number on hand at the end of the month; supported
by the receipts of the Deputy Commissioners, Postmasters,
or Customhouse Officers to whom the stamps were issued,
together with certificates of the Audit Office of the spoiled
paper destroyed.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land District of Auck-
land.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and thirty-fifth section
of "The Land Act, 1892," it is enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, either by general or
particular description, and whether the same has been
surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwith-
standing that the same may be then held under pastoral
license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required
for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of
the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do
hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Land
District of Auckland described in the Schedule hereunder
written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at
the end of the description of the land so intended to be
temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 6,960 acres, more or less,
being the Hauturu or Little Barrier Island, situated in the
Little Barrier Survey District, and bounded on all sides by
the sea. For the preservation of the native fauna.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twentieth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-five.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Taranaki for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon
me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of "The
Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday,
the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-five, as the time at which the land enumerated
in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at
New Plymouth, and I do hereby fix the price at which the
said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said
Schedule.