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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3025, 25 October 1878, Page 4

" STAMP ACT, 1876." ' TRANSFERS OF SHARES. / "^- ' '"' ' ■' . 1T is hereby notified, that, after the lit of 1 A January 1876, the use of Impressed Stamps 1 upon Transfers of Shares is compulsory, bat > transfers of shares may be stamped at a Stamp 1 Office by the Commissioner or * Deputy Commissioner within one month- after exeou- ! tion without a fine. •■"• Managers and Secretaries of Companies , Sharebrokers, and others interested, arere* commended to forward, without delay, such forms of transier as they may require to be „ impressed, accompanied by the usual requisition and receipt from the Bank ef New Zea«'' [ land for amount thereof, less the authorised , discount. ; Information may be obtained at any Stamo '■Office. ■• - •■- ■, .-. ■•■• ■ • .*■ .< * , The provision! of the Act relating hereto are as follow:— £ f [ " 47. (1.) Except where express provision • is made to the contrary, all duties are "to beT , 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 such corporation, company, or i 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 s» (ion of tbeinatru ment of sale or transfer ; and, if any person executes a sale»note, transfer, contract-note, or other instrument of sale or transfer, in any manner, or for any purpose whatsoever, on* i 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 er signed, it shall be wholly and absolutely void and inoperative. and shall in no case be made available by die' insertion of a name or any other particulars afterward!; and the person selling or trans* ferring such share shall, not be divested of hi» interest therein, but shall remain liableIhereon as if he had never sold or disposed of the same. And if such person is a licensed sharebroker, his license shall, on any conviction under this" section, be absolutely forfeited, and he shall not thereafter be qualified to act as a broker, or to have a fresh license issued to him. - ■/ i " 104. No sharebroker, auctioneer, commission agent, or any other person shall be . entitled to anj brokerage, commission, or any. other £*• or reward in respect of the side or transfer of any such «h«re, unless the instrumeut of sale or transfer is filled up with all neces&ary particulars to make it a com* plete icscrument, and is duly stamped. SCHEDULE. Tbaxsfbb except by way of mortgage— :','■ ■ (8.) Upon the sale of-any share or shares in the stock and funds of any corporation, company, or society whatever in New Zealand i _ : • '. V f • -•'.,.'■ !;. ■ Where the purchase or orosideration money,— . , .* "•- ---;«■-■' « s. d. i Does not exoeed £20 0 10 Exceeds £20, and does not ex* ! «eed£so tJ . ... ... 0 1 ' For every additional £60, or ! part of £60 o & i Chabcbs p. Bourn. i Mead Office, Stamp Department! "■■■-■' ' 1 Wellington, 27th October, 187 S. A i TfiE EVENING STAR "M (THAMES) - ." ",'"■■ (thi oldsst vnmxQ »A*m* m *io T S PUBLISHED DAILY at TOVH A.' 1 ' ' '•;■ '\ . ' . ..-..■■ .i .:,; . O'CLOCK and contains the Very Lates .; News up to the hour of going to press ; , . AGENCIES— , : London* Gobdok & Gotch ,; ? „ F.Algab ; ' Melbourne, Gobdon & Gotch „ ■ • Sydney, .„ Auckland —8. Bbookiko, Jbunruoe ■ Buildings . Shortland, J. H. Jxvhbbox „ J. Nqddxz „ Moboas's Fancy Bacaar . . Grahamstown, J. Cahtbb „ It. Bitbba Tararu Bead—Emis Post Office Store. Paeroa—J. M. Bobsok Karaka Creek—P. Otto \ - * „ J.Bctbki Xaraka Boad—Lvblow & Co* Mary street—F. Misox , Rolleston street—... Iviuu, . iiichmond street—J. Sxvuvmu. Sealey street—J. Waito* .