Last night's Gazette announces that the Commissioners for preserv- ing
the Navigation of the River Mersey have appointed Captain George Evans, R. N., Acting Conservator of the Mersey, in the room of Cap- tain Fitzroy, appointed Governor of New Zealand.
A notice has issued from the Office of Stamps awl Taxes, that those holders of stock who have proved their exemption from Property-tax for the past year, on account of their income not amounting to 150/. per annum, will be allowed to receive their dividends for the present year free of any deduction, provided the stock belonging to them remains in every respect the same as when the deduction of the tax was made for the last year. Where any alteration has been made in the amount since the former deduction, the parties entitled thereto will be paid their divi- dends in fall (provided their income has not increased to 150/. per an- num.) if on or before the 27th of May they send to the office of Stamps and Taxes a statement of the amount and description of the stocks for- merly and now held by them, in a form which may be obtained from the Surveyor of the district in which they reside.
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