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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 695, 28 June 1869, Page 1

Government Advertisements. [From New Zealand Gazette, page 219, No. 25, 1869.] K 3 —The attention of Executors, Administrators, Legatees, and Successors, is called to the provisions of "The Stamp Duties Act, 1866," which require : 1. That Executors and Administrators shall, in the case of all legacies, annuities, or residues paid by them, furnish to the Stamp Office full accounts of such payments, and shall pay the duty assessed thereon within sixty days thereafter j and in the case of legacies, annuities, or residues retained in trust, shall before any such retainer furnish to the Commissioners full 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 admi istered by them, so soon as the successor shall become be ; neficially 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 receipts become invalid. 3. That every successor to real 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 Comramissioners 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 EITZHERBERT. Stamp Office, May 1, 1869. 286

[From New Zealand Gazette, page 279, No. 32, 1869. J Stamp Office, * Wellington, June 3, 1869. O Caution.—The attention of the public is called to section sixteen" (16) of the Stamp Duties Act, 1866, which specifies the instruments on which the duties payable may be denoted by adhesive stamps affixed by the makers or holders. On all other instruments the stamp must be affixed at the Stamp Office j any stamp not so affixed is of no avail, and the instrument to which it is affixed is un stamped within the meaning of the Act. All instruments required to be stamped after execution, except those specified in section sixteen (16), 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 upon the duty payable, which fine is increased to one hundred pounds (£100) 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, 287 Secretary for Stamp Duties.

Crown Lands Office, .Napier, June 10, 1869. NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Buns, respectively awarded to John Harding, and transferred to Messrs James and William Tait; James Anderson, Robert Ridded, transferred to Thomas, Martin, and John Pearse ; John Lavin, transferred to Alexander Allan, senior ; Robert Curtis, and Robert James Curtis, transferred to Philip and Richard Dolbel; and Robert Riddell, transferred to Thomas, Martin, and John Pearse, in the Mohaka Block,—are forfeited for breach of section 6 of clause 11 of the Additional Land Regulations, Province of Wellington, and the Licenses are cancelled accordingly. And it is also notified that on WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of July, 1869, at noon, 1 shall offer the undermentioned lots, comprising the JKuns aforementioned, to be let by public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Napier, for a term of fourteen years, the boundaries and particulars of which can be seen at the Survey Office, Napier:— Lot 1—4519 acres; upset price id 2—4176 " 3—4780 " " 4_9570 " " 5—7767 " " 6—9530 " " 7—9748 " " J. 0. LAMBTON CARTER, 273 Commissioner of Crown Laada,