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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3019, 18 October 1878, Page 4

" STAMP ACT, 1875." ' TRANSFERS OF SHARES. IT is hereby notified; that, after the Ist of ' January 1876, the use of Impressed Stamps upon Transfers of Shares is compulsory, but ■■ transfers of shares may be stamped at a Stamp Office by the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner within one month after execution without a fiae. Managers and Secretaries of Companies, Sharebrekere, and others interested, are recommended to forward, without delay, such forms of transfer as they may • require to be impressed, accompanied by the .usual requisi* lion and receipt lrom the Bank of New Zea-: land for amount thereof, less the authorised discount. Information mpy be obtained at any Stamn Office. * l The proTisions of the Act relating hereto ' are as follow:— ■' , ; " 47. (1.) Except where express provision,,'. is made to the contrary, all duties nre to be , denoted by impressed stamps only." " 102. No transfer of any share or shares : of or in the stock or funds of any corporation, ' company, or society whatever in New Zealand ■"- shall be registered, recorded, or entered in the * • books of Buch corporation, company, or society, unless such transfer is duly stamped. ! "103. No instrument of sale or transfer ot any share or shares shall be valid, either at law or in equity, unless the name of the purchaser or transferee is inserted therein at the time of or before the exec 3 tion of the instru ment of sale or .transfer ; and, if any person H executes a sale-note, transfer, oontract-note,? ' or other instrument of sale or transfer, in an?"; j manner, or for any purpose whatsoever, vii* less the name of the purchaser is inserted therein at. the time or before.the execution thereof, he shall forfeit a sum of not less than <■" £20 or more than £100; and, if any such"" instrument is so made or signed, it shall be wholly and absolutely void and inoperative,^ and shall in no case be made available by tke * insertion of a name or any other particulars afterwards; and the person selling or trans* ferring such share shall not.be divested of oil interest therein, but shall remain liable thereon as if he had never sold or disposed ot the same. And if such person, is a lumped sharebroker, his license shall, on any coavio> '• tion under this section, be absolutely, for* feited, and he shall not thereafter be qualified ' to act as a broker, or to have a fresh license. . issued to him. . ' ' '.' " 104. No sharebreker, auctioneer, com- ' mission agent, or any other person shall be . entitled to any brokerage, commission, erf" 1 any other fee or reward in respect of the sale or transfer of any such share, unless the in« strumeat of sale or transfer is filled up witk - all necessary particulars to make it • com* plete instrument, and is duly stamped* '^ '•■ SCHEDULE. ' .-, TKAvqnEB except by way of mortgage—' !' (2.) Upon the sale of any. share or shares in the stock and funds of any corporation, company, or society whatever in New 2m« , land: Where the purchase or consideration money,— : ■ ' *; s-'-di '! Does not exceed £20 0 10 Exceeds £20, and does not exceed £50 *. 0 2 For every, additional £60, or part of £50 ' 0 2 Chabxbs O^Bowbk. Head Office, Stamp Department, v Wellington-, 27th Octobefr, 1876. THE EVENING STAB (THAMES) (THIS OLDXBT IVKXIXCt PAPBB US IBM MO'rnroa o» auoklavd) TS PUBLISHED DAILY at FOUS O'CLOCK and contains the Very Lates News up to the hour of going to prew AGENCIES— London, GoBDO» & Gotoh „ F. Algae Melbourne, Gobdon & Gotoh ' - Sydney, „ Auckland —S. Beooking, Insurance , Buildings Shortland, J. H. Jbffbbsoh . : 1 „ Mobgan's Fancy Bawuus - Grahamstown, J. Cabtib ! „ K. Buxba Tararu Road—Elms Pott Office Store, Paeroa—J. M. Kobsow ' Karaka Creek—F: Otto ' ', „ J. Bubks Karaka Boad—Lumow.4 Co, Mary street—F. Mason Rolleaton street —... Tubbbll Richmond street—J. Sathtdbbi, Sealey street —J. Waltoh ' .