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Dunstan Times, Issue 376, 2 July 1869, Page 2

-imiNew Zealand, TSlo. 32, , Stamp Oflico,s®Jlington, 34 June, lliGO. OTAMP DUTIES ACTS, , O —Caution.— The attention of tire public is called to Section sixteen (1G) ■of the Stamp Duties Act, 18G6, which specifies the instruments on which the duties payable may be denoted by ad hesive stamps affixed by the makers or holders. On all other instruments the stamp must bo affixed at the Stamp Office ; any stamp not so affixed is of no avail •and the instrument to which it is affixed is unstamped within the meaning of the Act. AH instruments required to be stamped after execution, except those specified in section sixteen (1C), must be presented at the Stamp Office within one month after the date of execution. Instruments not presented within one month become liable to a fine of twenty pounds .(,£2O) per centum ypon the duty payable, which fine is increased to one hundred pounds(£l 00) per centum after three months from the date of execution, no fine in the latter case being less than five pounds (£5). C. T. BATKIN, Secretary for Stamp Duties.

[From New Zealand Gazette, page 219 No. 25, 1869. QTAMP DUTIES ACT, 1866 - O Notice.— The attention ofExecu tors, Administrators, Legatees, and ►successors is called to the provisions of the “Stamp Duties Act, 186G,’ ; which require;— 1. That Executors and Administra ■tors shall, in the case of all legacies, annuities, or residue's paid by them, furnish to the Stamp Oflice full accounts of such payments, and shall -pay the duty assessed thereon, within sixty days thereafter ; and, in the case of legacies, annuities, or residues retained in trust, shall, before any ■ such retainer, furnish to the Commissioners fall particulars thereof, and shall pay the duty assessed thereon within fourteen days of such assessment ; and shall furnish accounts of all successions under any will or estate executed or administered by them so soon as the successor shall become ‘beneficially entitled thereto. 2. That Legatees receiving legacies ■shall give receipts in the prescribed form, which receipts ‘must bear date on the day of signing, and must be brought to the Stamp Office to be stamped within sixty days thereafter ; otherwise such i eceipts become invalid! 3. That every Successor to Ileal or Personal Estate, as soon as he (or any other person in his behalf) shall become entitled thereto in possession, or to the receipt of the income and profit thereof, shall furnish to the Commissioners full and true accounts of the property succeeded to, with the name of and their relationship to the predecessor. Cumulative penalties are imposed ■ by the Act for neglect or delay in rendering such accounts or paying the duty assessed. WILLIAM FITZHERBERT. ■Stamp Office, May 1, 1869. NOTICE. | -Hereby give notice that I have this ' <% applied to the Warden at Clyde, for a Lease of Land for Agricultural Purposes, situate at and being sect ion 5, Tiger Hill district, comprising fifty acres or thereabouts, in accordance with the Agricultural Leases Regulations of the 12th day of February, 1868, made under the Goldfields Act, 1866. JOHN HAMILTON. Clyde, June 11, 1869. The above application will be heard before me at the Court-house, at 'Clyde, on Monday, the 13th day of VINCENT PYKE, Warden. NOTICE. THcreby give notice that I have 1 day applied to the Warder Clyde for a Lease of Land for / cultural Purposes, situate at and ing Section 3, Block IV, Leaning I District, comprising fifty acres or tl abouts, in accordance with the / cultural Leases Regulations of 12th day of February, 1868, n under the Goldfields Act 1866. JOHN HAMILTOi Clyde, June 11, 1869. The above application will be heard before me, at tire Court House, at Clyde, on the 13th of July, 1869. VINCENT PYKE, s Warden.