TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Rations for Prisoners—D. O’Callaghan.

Ration No. 1 .......................... 1s. 0d.
Ration No. 2 .......................... 8d.
Ration No. 3 .......................... 4d.
Ration No. 4 .......................... 3d.

Rations to Prisoners—W. Bosworth.

Ration No. 1 .......................... 1s.
Ration No. 2 .......................... 9d.
Ration No. 3 .......................... 2½d.

Destitute Persons—B. C. Lawrence.

Bread, per lb .......................... 2d.

Firewood—W. H. Free.

Sound split Rata, (in four feet lengths) per ton .......................... 10s.

Firewood—M. Jones.

Rata, per load .......................... 10s.
Tawa, at per load of 72 cubic feet 8s. 9d.

Firewood—W. Martin.

Per 72 cubic feet, 9s.

QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Quarterly Licensing Meeting of the Justices of the Peace acting in and for the District of Taranaki, will be held at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, in Brougham-street, in the Town of New Plymouth, on Tuesday, the first day of March next, at noon, for the purpose of taking into consideration all applications for Licenses under the “Sale of Liquors Ordinance, 1866,” and the transfer, removal, or renewal of such Licenses.

C. E. RAWSON,
Clerk of the Court.
Resident Magistrate’s Court,
New Plymouth, 31st January, 1870.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

STAMP DUTIES.

SOME misapprehension appearing to exist as to the use of IMPRESSED and 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 the 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 endorsement, 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. BARKIN,
Secretary.
Office of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties, Wellington,
1st January, 1870.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Taranaki, by W. H. J. SEFFERN, of Devon-street, New Plymouth, Printer to the Provincial Government for the time being.