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Chief Commissioner and Commissioners to
hold their respective offices during my
pleasure.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s
Colony of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued at Wellington this
fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
71, of the 18th December, 1869.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

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 Instru-
ments undermentioned, and no others, may
instead be stamped with Adhesive Stamps by
the persons making or signing the Instru-
ment:

• 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 indorse-
  ment, 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. BATKIN,
Secretary.

Office of the Commissioner of
Stamp Duties, Wellington,
1st January, 1870.

IN pursuance of the power vested in me by
the Regulations contained in the Schedule
to the Proclamation dated the seventeenth
day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine, by the Governor in
Council, of Regulations for the sale, letting,
disposal, occupation, and management of the
Waste Lands within the County of Westland:

I, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint

MALCOLM FRASER, Esq.,
to be the Chief Surveyor for the said County
of Westland, and to hold such office during
my pleasure.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s
Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same; and issued, at Wellington,
this fourteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

THE following notice has been forwarded
to the Chairman of the County Council
to be published for general information.

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

STAMP DUTIES.

Some misapprehension appearing to exist
as to the use of Impressed and Adhesive
Stamps, and as to the Instruments to which
they should be applied:

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, 10th December, 1869.

THE following Bye-Law of the Council of
the Borough of Greymouth has been
forwarded to the Chairman of the County
Council, who directs it to be notified that he
does not dissent from it. It is published for