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REGULATION XII.
[A.D. 1826.
account of individuals
without certificate from
collector.
Or other sufficient
authority.
Rulesforvendorsand
distributors.
for the due discharge
of their duty.
Board may require
further engagements.
vided, however, that if such vendor shall resign or be dismissed, or his
license be otherwise cancelled, then and in that case he, his representative
or assign, shall deliver up to the collector of stamps, or to such person as
he may appoint to receive the stamped paper, vellum, or the like, furnished
to him under the provisions of this section, or such portion as may not
have been disposed ok and shall be entitled to recover a sum equivalent to
the price which he may have advanced for the same, viz. the specified
amount of the stamped paper or other material aforesaid, with a deduction
of the discount that may have been allowed on it.
VIII. If any superintendent or other officer shall fix or impress,
or cause to be fixed or impressed, any stamp to or upon any vellum, parch-
ment, paper, or other material which shall be brought to the Stamp Office
to be stamped or marked, without a regular certificate from the collector
of the amount of duty having been paid, or without special authority in
writing from the Board of Revenue, he shall for every such offence forfeit
the sum of one thousand rupees. In like manner, if any collector, or
other officer appointed to receive the stamp duty, shall grant a certificate
of the above description, before the prescribed duty with a deduction of the
authorized discount shall have been actually paid, such officer shall forfeit
for every such offence the sum of one thousand rupees, besides being held
responsible for the amount of duty unrealized.
Any native officer or other person causing or procuring any
stamp to be fixed or impressed, or any certificate to be granted in the
irregular manner aforesaid, or conniving with the officer so fixing or
impressing any stamp, or so granting a certificate, shall forfeit for every
such offence the sum of one thousand rupees, and shall in addition beheld
answerable for the amount of duty chargeable on the paper mentioned in
the certificate.
IX. The following rules are enacted for the control and superin-
tendence of the vendors and distributors authorized to be appointed by
Section VI. of this Regulation.
Every person who may be appointed to be a vendor or distri-
butor of stamps on the part of Government, shall attend the Board in
person, and execute a bond, with one or more responsible sureties, for the
faithful performance of the several duties prescribed for such vendors and
distributors in this or any future Regulations, with such penalty and after
such form as may be required by the said Board ; and any failure in fulfil-
ling the conditions of such bond, shall, besides the penalty thereby provided,
subject the offender to immediate dismission from the said office of vendor
or distributor, by the Board of Revenue.
7A?TA The following rules shall be observed by all vendors and distri-
butors of stamps, and the bonds executed by those persons on their
appointment shall distinctly bind them to a strict observance of those rules,
subject in case of failure to the several penalties hereinafter specified.
Provided, however, that it shall also be competent to the Board of Revenue
to require the vendors and distributors of stamps to come under such
further engagements as may appear necessary, and as may be legally
required from them.
AVM7YA. All persons licensed to vend or distribute stamps shall at all
REGULATION XII.
[A.D. 1826.
account of individuals
without certificate from
collector.
Or other sufficient
authority.
Rulesforvendorsand
distributors.
for the due discharge
of their duty.
Board may require
further engagements.
vided, however, that if such vendor shall resign or be dismissed, or his
license be otherwise cancelled, then and in that case he, his representative
or assign, shall deliver up to the collector of stamps, or to such person as
he may appoint to receive the stamped paper, vellum, or the like, furnished
to him under the provisions of this section, or such portion as may not
have been disposed ok and shall be entitled to recover a sum equivalent to
the price which he may have advanced for the same, viz. the specified
amount of the stamped paper or other material aforesaid, with a deduction
of the discount that may have been allowed on it.
VIII. If any superintendent or other officer shall fix or impress,
or cause to be fixed or impressed, any stamp to or upon any vellum, parch-
ment, paper, or other material which shall be brought to the Stamp Office
to be stamped or marked, without a regular certificate from the collector
of the amount of duty having been paid, or without special authority in
writing from the Board of Revenue, he shall for every such offence forfeit
the sum of one thousand rupees. In like manner, if any collector, or
other officer appointed to receive the stamp duty, shall grant a certificate
of the above description, before the prescribed duty with a deduction of the
authorized discount shall have been actually paid, such officer shall forfeit
for every such offence the sum of one thousand rupees, besides being held
responsible for the amount of duty unrealized.
Any native officer or other person causing or procuring any
stamp to be fixed or impressed, or any certificate to be granted in the
irregular manner aforesaid, or conniving with the officer so fixing or
impressing any stamp, or so granting a certificate, shall forfeit for every
such offence the sum of one thousand rupees, and shall in addition beheld
answerable for the amount of duty chargeable on the paper mentioned in
the certificate.
IX. The following rules are enacted for the control and superin-
tendence of the vendors and distributors authorized to be appointed by
Section VI. of this Regulation.
Every person who may be appointed to be a vendor or distri-
butor of stamps on the part of Government, shall attend the Board in
person, and execute a bond, with one or more responsible sureties, for the
faithful performance of the several duties prescribed for such vendors and
distributors in this or any future Regulations, with such penalty and after
such form as may be required by the said Board ; and any failure in fulfil-
ling the conditions of such bond, shall, besides the penalty thereby provided,
subject the offender to immediate dismission from the said office of vendor
or distributor, by the Board of Revenue.
7A?TA The following rules shall be observed by all vendors and distri-
butors of stamps, and the bonds executed by those persons on their
appointment shall distinctly bind them to a strict observance of those rules,
subject in case of failure to the several penalties hereinafter specified.
Provided, however, that it shall also be competent to the Board of Revenue
to require the vendors and distributors of stamps to come under such
further engagements as may appear necessary, and as may be legally
required from them.
AVM7YA. All persons licensed to vend or distribute stamps shall at all