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, ե, է: :ծ - : ... ( : Woo, نه ; چز J۰ % ، بي و .ه ډتي [PART VII. “6. The almost stationary state of the General Stamp Revenue, contrasting as it does “so remarkably with the rapid increase of receipts from Court Fees Stamps, shows the “necessity of measures being taken to enforce the more general observance of the law. I am “therefore directed to request that the Member in charge will issue a circular to District “Collectors, pointing out to them that in cases in which unstamped or under-stamped “documents come under their notice, under circumstances which are sufficient to satisfy them “that there was an intention of evading the law, it is their duty to prosecute the offenders “in a Criminal Court, and that the Government is advised that in such cases it is not “necessary that any evidence to prove the fraudulent intention should be offered by the “prosecution. As it is believed that the law has not hitherto been strictly enforced, it is the “wish of the Government that care and circumspection should be used in instituting these “prosecutions; but the Lieutenant-Governor believes that if a few cases were prosecuted in “every district, and convictions were obtained, the obligations imposed by the law would “be brought forcibly to the notice of all classes of the community, and a considerable “increase of the stamp revenue would be the result. In these prosecutions, which would be “instituted by way rather of warning than of punishment, it would not be necessary for the “Collector to press for the infliction of severe penalties. The result of the prosecutions which “may be instituted under these orders should be reported to Government, in order that it may “be ascertained whether any modificatiou of the existing law is necessary or desirable.” [Government Gawatts, 8th February 1876.]