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 payment for 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 a 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.

BALCLUTHA CEMETERY.—RULES AND REGULATIONS.—The following Rules and Regulations have been submitted to the Superintendent and Executive Council, and are published for general information.—3rd January, 1870.

1. All charges must be paid in advance when orders are given.

2. Any person or persons making a vault, placing a tombstone, or erecting a monument in the Cemetery, by and with the permission of the managers for the time being, and upon payment of the required charges, shall maintain and keep up such vault, tombstone, or monument, according to the terms of such permission, to and for the sole and separate use of such person or persons, heirs, near relations, and friends, forever.

3. Application for such permission must be made to the Secretary or to one of the Managers, and a certificate of such permission, in the form in Schedule B, or to the like effect, may be granted to the party applying for such permission, on payment of the charges in Schedule A.

4. The cost and charges of the burial of any person in such Cemetery will be remitted on proof being given to the satisfaction of the Managers that such person was a pauper at the time of his death, and that there are no funds applicable, and no person is liable for the payment of costs and charges.

5. Orders for interment must be given to the sexton at least six working hours prior to the hour fixed for the funeral, otherwise an extra charge will be made, in terms of Schedule A. No free interment will be allowed without the above notice of six hours.

6. The Managers will cause all ordinary graves to be dug, but parties requiring brick graves or vaults will be required to construct them under the direction of a surveyor appointed by the Managers; and in case interment is to be made in any private grave or vault, the consent in writing of the party entitled thereto must be left with the order.

7. The information required by Schedule C must be stated at the time of giving the order.

8. The time fixed for the funeral must be the time when the procession is to be at the Cemetery, and the same must be punctually observed.

9. Until otherwise ordered, the usual hours fixed for funerals will be from 8 o’clock a.m. to 5 o’clock p.m., from the 1st day of September to the 30th day of April; and from 8 o’clock a.m. to 4 o’clock p.m. in the other four months of the year; except on Sundays, when the usual, and only funerals, will be from 2 to 5 o’clock p.m. throughout the year. No funeral will be allowed to take place between the hours of 7 o’clock p.m. and 7 o’clock a.m.

10. All monuments, vaults, graves, and gravestones must be kept in repair and proper condition by and at the expense of the owners.

11. Every coffin in a vault or brick grave must be bricked-in, cemented, and covered by a slab of stone, slate, or iron; and every coffin in a private grave must have on the lid a metal plate, with the name of the deceased stamped or painted thereon.

12. A drawing of every stone, tomb, pedestal, and plan of every fence, monument, or tablet proposed to be erected, and a copy of every epitaph or inscription must be submitted to the Managers and approved of by them.

13. No servant or any other person employed by or engaged in any duty on behalf of the Managers shall receive any gratuity, under penalty of dismissal.

14. The ground will be open daily to the public from sunrise to sunset.

15. A plan of the Cemetery, showing the situation of the graves, shall be kept by the Secretary, and may be inspected on payment of the charge mentioned in Schedule A, and registers of all grants shall be kept by the Secretary.

16. The Managers shall have power to expel from the Cemetery, or to take into custody (as the case may require), any person who shall behave indecorously, or commit any trespass, or injury to the trees, flowers or erections, or otherwise infringe the Ordinance relating to the Cemetery, or the Regulations for the protection of the same, and such person shall be proceeded against according to the provisions of the “Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance 1864.”

17. No funeral will be allowed to take place in the Cemetery without a certificate from a Deputy-Registrar of Deaths, or the Coroner holding the inquest or inquiry, or a Magistrate; and such certificate must be delivered to the Sexton at the Cemetery before the funeral enters the gate.

18. All Ordinary Meetings of the Managers shall be held on the first Monday in January, April, July, and October, in each year, at 8 o’clock p.m. Special Meetings may at any time be called by the Secretary, and two of the Managers shall form a quorum, who are empowered to do all matters and things which the Managers are authorised to do.

19. The Managers reserve the right to make any alterations, from time to time, in these Charges and Regulations.

20. Any purchasers of private ground in which no interment shall have taken place, may transfer his or her interest in said ground, upon payment being made to the Managers or Trustees for the time being, of five shillings for such transfer.

JOHN BARR,
JAMES SANDERSON,
ROBERT HOULISTON,
} Managers.

SCHEDULE A.

Private Graves.

£ s. d.
Single interment in open ground, adults ... 0 10 0
Do. under 14 years and over 5 years ... 0 7 6
Do. under 5 years ... 0 5 0

Private Graves.

Special land for family graves for each block, 8 feet by 10, as per plan:—
First Class ... ... ... 1 10 0
Second ,, ... ... ... 1 5 0
Third ,, ... ... ... 1 0 0