The Sun.
London, England, 1813-08-04 00:00:00

SALES AND MORTGAGES,

Divers provisions are made for removing doubts which oc-
curred on the former Act relating to the ad valorem Duties.--
In regard to • . , •
SPOILEb STAMPS.

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The Commissioners are authorised to allow and exehange
Stampi on written Instruments signed by any Party or. Parties
(except. policies of insurance) which have or shall become in-
operative, unfit or insufficient for the purpose intended, void,
or useless, in a variety of cases not before provided far.--
But application for the allowauce must be made within six
months after the passing of the Act (on the 10th of duly
instant) or after the date of the instruments, or within six
months after the instruments become void, in case of their
becoming void for want of inrolment, •or within six months
after the same shall be receivedliock, in case of their bar-
img betzt 'sent abroad. And all applications for the allowance
of spoiled stamps, on instruments not fully written, or not
signed by any, party, must be made, at this Office, within six
months after the passing of the Act, or within six months
after the same shall
.have been spoiled, if belonging to per-
sons resident in London or Westminster, or within ten miles
thereof, or within twelve months after the same shall have
beeil spoiled, if belonging to .persons resident elsewhere in
England. And affidavits, or soleMn- affirmations in the case
of Quakers, of ag the facts and circumstances IFt lilting to the
spoiled or useless stamps brought for allowance, must-aceom-
pany the application ; which affidavits or affirmations mnst
be made before a Commissioner of Stamps or a Master in
Chancery, ordinary or extraordinary. And any personmaking
a false oath or affirmation will be punishable for perjury--
'ln regard to
STAGE COACHES.

The Act contains a clause for more effectually securing the
duties, in cases of persons running stage. coaches without' a
license. , Audit is enacted, that alicenses for keeping stage
coaches, which shalt have been granted, within Six months
preceding the Ist August, ,1613, shall continue in force till
the 31st July, 1814, and that all licenses' granted before the
Ist February,lBl3, and being in force on the 31st July, 1813,
'shall cease on that day, and new licenses shall be taken out
in lieu thereof on the day following; and all licenses to be,
grantejl after the 31st !July, 1813, are to have effect and con-
tinue in force, from the date thereof, until the 31st day of
July following, and no longer.
It is recommended to.all bankers, solicitors, stationers,and
others concerned, to make themselves acquainted with the
particular provisions of the Act,-in order that they way avoid
lfeuultie,, and intitle themselves to the relief given by it, in
the case of spoiled stamps.
By order of the Commissioners,
• WILLIAM KAPPEN, Secretary.

N'Elr VitNT 1011' —.14 0 rAI ES -(1 at e
Robinson and Holmes), Patent Peruke-maker to his
Royal. Highness the. Prince Regent, and to his It. H. the
-Duke of Clarence, also to. the Theatre Royal Covent-garden,
of 210 and tat, Strand, begs leave to inform the Nobility and
Gentry, that he has inVented a mode of making PERUKES,
which for lightness and natural appearance .cannot be equall-
ed: the hair is so curiously woven as to appear like the hair
growing from the head. 'They are entirely devoid of pres-
sure, a fault that occurs in Perukes hitherto in use. Spring
Scalps, and every description of Ornamental Hair for Ladies
and Gentlemen, on an improved principle.
N. It. Holmes begs leave to inform the Ladies and Gentle-
men, that be has engaged men of the first abilities fur Hair
Cutting, and has recently fitted up apartments ftq that pur-
pose.

• . This Day was publi.hed,
• Handsomely printed in Octavo, price 9s. in boards,
(Dedicated, by permission, to the Kight Hon. Lord Holland),
ACORRESPONDENCE of the late. Right
Hon. CHARLES .1 AMES FOX, with the late GIL-
BERT WAKEFIELD, 11. A. in the year •1796---1801, chiefly
on subjects of Classical Literature.
Printed forT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strata. Sold also by
Blackwood, Edinburgh; .and Al. Keene, Dublin. •