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

V. R.
INLAND REVENUE OFFICE, LONDON.
Futr, CAUTION.
on the STAMP REVENUE in the TRANSFERS of
fiIIARES in RAILWAYS and other PUBLIC COMPANIES.
otherl4 ' being Understood that, o the Sale of Shares in Railway, and
the
Joint Stock Companies,n a practice exists of omitting to state
To," Instrument of Transfer the true sum paid or agreed to be paid
4 each Shares, whereby the Stamp Duty payable on such Transfer
evaded; the Commissioners of Inland Revenue deem it right to
e' le the following Public Notice, viz.:
on the Sale of Property of any kind, it is required by Law
meetly
the full Purchase or Consideration Money which shall be
s_e_etlY or indirectly paid, or secured or agreed to be paid for the
shall be truly expressed and set forth in words, at length,
the Deed or Instrument whereby the Property shall be trans-
neci ; and that in default thereof, both the Purchaser and Seller
Da Penalty of Fifty Pounds and five times the amount of the
evaded by the omission ; and that the person employed in
4n4Paring the Transfer incurs a penalty of Five Hundred Pounds ;
tc: it he be an Attorney, Solicitor, or Writer to the Signet, he is, on
lvietion thenceforth disabled from practising.
1111 if ether of the Parties to the Transfer gives information to the
o,lnissioners, whereby the Penalty incurred by the other, or the
017_ntaple Duty, or any part thereof may be recovered, he is not
teZ to be indemnified and discharged from his liability, but may be
out of the money so recovered, to such an extent not
ceding one-half thereof as the Commissioners shall think proper.
fib, so
the Purchaser may recover back from the Seller, in an action
th_7 no so much of the Purchase Money as shall not be ,set forth in
transfer, or the whole thereof, if part be set lath.
The Commissioners also give notice, that they vrill liberally reward
iniTila who may give them information by means of which any of
',Penalties shall be recovered.
,By Order of the Board,
March, 1849,
J. C. FREELING, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, MARCO 14, 1849.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
thlThat a Proprietor of East India Stock has postponed until the
at 13' General COurt of the said Company, appointed to be held
_ heir House, in Leadenhall-street, ou WEDNESDAY, the 21st in-
t, the following motion, viz.:
That the etitions presented •to the Court upon tho subject of
b tggertauth p
and other Temples ii India be takex into consideration
he Court of Proprietors.'
Ott the
same Proprietor has given notice of his Intention t0,Anb-
.,1,1,1e following motion, viz. :
aw„ hat before the meeting of :any future Court of Proprietors, a
EiTted notice announcing it, together with any business known to
~,'_hen coming on, be seat to.every male Proprietor being qualified to
note at such meeting."
th:tat another Proprietor has given notice, that he will submit
7,ri ollowiag motion, viz. :
co That copies of all correspondence which has passed between the
411 of Directors and the Board of Control regarding the booty cap-
ed Hydrabad be laid before the Court of Proprietors."
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

BANK or ENGLAND, MARCY' 15, 1849.
THE GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the
BANK of ENGLAisTD give notice—
That the GENERAL COURT held at the Bank This Day is
elrned TrESDAT next, the 20th instant, at Eleven o'clock in
e AVenoon.• for the purpose of taking the determination by note, in
rittitairlfZiting, of the question on the following resolutiOn proposed
t e Court for a Dividend, viz...—
' That a Dividend be made of 51. 10s. per cent. interest and profits
Lur the halt-year ending the sth April neat, without any deituctiom
05 account of the income-tax."
The Voting will commence at Eleven o'clock and terminate at Four.
JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary.