THE STAMP ACT.

Evening Star, Issue 4059, 29 February 1876, Page 2

THE STAMP ACT.

The legal profession in Wellington lately : addressed a communication to the Commissioner of Stamps, in which they represented the serious inconvenience and loss that will result to legal practitioners and the public generally from the provision requiring that the numerous documents mentioned in the first schedule to the Older in Council of the December last, should be stamped with impressed Stamps only,'and that for such documents adhesive stomps should, after the end of the present month, be available. They also suggested that it would be a great convenience to the public, and a saving to the Government, If each Supreme Court office were made a depository of law court stamps. From the correspondence which appears in the 'New Zealand Times* we learn that, on the 9th inst, the Secretary for Stamps made reply to the first matter that “ it has been decided that the use of impressed stamps shall be optional, and not obligatory. An Order in Council to this effect will shortly appear in the ■' Gazette;* whereupon registrars of the Supreme. Court will be duty notified." A law days, later the memorialists were informed "that their Honors, the' Judges have again, been consulted ail to. the advisability of such Appointments [of registrars, and deputy registrars as depositories of stomps], and they still hold,that thechange w<Jnld confer no additional. jopnvenlenoe' either for the profession or. the public ;•moreover, the.proctioo in and' also’ I* tindbrst&nd in Victoria, hi opposed to the wile of stamps by officers of courts of law. The Commissioner therefore regrets that under these circumstances he feels - himself unable to accede to your request herein."