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THE STAMP ACT.

The following extract from the New Zealand Gazette of the 16th inst will be of interest to many of our readers ; — The Treasury, Wellington, 14th September, 1880. The attention of all public officers anil others concerned in the payment of " public moneys" within the meaning of "The Public Revenues Act, 1878," is specially directed to section 4 of '* The Stamp Act Amendment Act, 1880," which will come into operation on the Ist October, 1880 ; and all such persons are hereby enjoined and required to see that in obtaining acquittances for the disbursement of public moneys due effeot is given to the provision referred to. , Attention is also directed to sections 94 and 95 of "The Stamp Act, 1875," John Halt,, (for the Colonial Treasurer.) Section 4 of "The Stamp Act Amendment Act, 1880 " j The law as to the duties payable upon receipts is hereby amended as follows : — (1.) All receipts givenby or on behalf of the Corporation of any county, borough, Road Board, Education Board, or Har- i bour Board shall be and the same are hereby declared exempt from duty. (2 ) All receipts given to Her Majesty, or to any person, on her behalf, shall be chargeable with stamp duty under the provisions of the said Act, and any exemption of such receipts from stamp duty is hereby repealed.

Professor Farrington, in a summary of the experiments begun in 1870 by the Maine Agricultural College to ascertain which has the greater value as a food for swine, cooked or uncooked meal, says : " We have, by an experiment which has been continued through from three to four months of each of the nine years since its beginning' obtained evidence that all the money and labour expended in cooking meal for swine ia more than thrown away."

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Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1287, 28 September 1880, Page 2

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THE STAMP ACT. Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1287, 28 September 1880, Page 2

THE STAMP ACT. Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1287, 28 September 1880, Page 2

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