The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-17 00:00:00

V. R.
INLAND REVENUE OFFICE, LONDON.
CAUTION.
••11.1D on the STAMP REVENUE in the TRANSFERS of
Srr
--RES in RAILWAYS and other PUBLIC COMPANIES.
It bei •
ng understood that, on the Sale of Shares in Railway, and
ether Joint Stock Companies, a practice exists of omitting to state
r the Instrument of Transfer the true sum paid or agreed to be paid
icsir,..sucli Shares, whereby the Stamp Duty payable on such Transfer
; the Commissioners of Inland Revenue deers it right to
the following Public Notice, viz.:—
tal hat on the Sale of Property of any kind, it is required by Law
iji,,,,t,the full Purchase or Consideration Money which shall be
88-"u9 or indirectly paid, or secured or agreed to be paid for the
ter" shall be truly expressed and set forth In words, at length,
ferry; Deed. or Instrument whereby the Property shall be trans-
; and that In default thereof, both the Purchaser and Seller
t,414,1: '
4 Penalty of Fifty Pounds and five times the amount of the
evaded by the omission • and that the person employed in
Dp-'.>AreAaring"
the Transfer Incurs a penalty of Five Hundred Pounds ;
cel if he be an Attorney, Solicitor, or Writer to the Signet, he is, on
v,r 'ellen, thenceforth disabled from practising.
C„„..hif if e-ther of the Parties to the Tr.insfer gives information to the
(I—.'rofssioners, whereby the Penalty incurred by the other, or the
eintuple Duty, or any part thereof may be recovered, he is not
fo7 to be indemnified and discharged front his liability, but may be
rewarded, out of the money so recovered, to such an extent not ex-
ceeding oils-half thereof as the Commissioners shall think proper.
, oat the Purchaser may recover back from the Seller, iu an action
ih,.v, so much of the Purchase Money as shall not be set forth in
'!_lransfer , or the whole thereof, if no part be set forth.
Per Commissioners also give notice, that they will lieally rewrd
•sens who may give them information by means ofb vir hich any of
8
"at Penalties shall be recovered.
By Order of the Board,
J. C. FIIEELTNG, Secretary.

March, 1849,

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Mitten 14, 1849.
TuE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
that a proprietor of East India Stock has postponed until the
Quarterly General Court of the said Company, appointed to be held
st their House, in Leadenhallstreet, on WEDNESDAY, the 21st in-
ant, the following motion, viz.:—
a:: That the petitions preSented to the Court upon the subject of
Lggeraauth and other Temples in India be taken into consideration
',Ale Court of Proprietors."
„,. at:the same Proprietor has given notice of his intention to sub-
« the following motion, viz.:
That before the meeting of any future Court of Proprietors, a
panted notice announcing it, together with any business known to
atillen corning on, be sent to every male Proprietor being qualified to
.
at such meeting."
ulalat another Proprietor has given notice, that he will submit
follovring motion, viz. :
" That copies of all correspondence which has passed between the
ottert of Directors and the Board of Control regarding the booty cap-
",r dat Hydrabad be laid before the Court of Proprietors. -
JAMES C. MEL VILL, Secretary.

BANK OF ENGLAND, MARCH 15, 1849.
RE GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the
BANK of ENGLAND give notice—
That the GENERAL COURT held at the Bank This Day is
I'Vourned
forenoon till TUEsDAY
he next, the 20th instant, at
at ion
o'clock in
I,r? for e purpose of taking the determination by note, in
tit, or writing, of the question on the following resolution proposed
4t the Court for a Dividend, viz.

" That a Dividend be made of 5/. 103. per cent. Interest and profits
kir the hall-year ending the sth April next, without any deduction
°II account of the income-tax."

TikeVO,, will commence atTsiteyftki):43l.oeßicand terminate at Four.
KNIGHT, Secretary.