Registration of Deeds (Ireland) Act, 1864

Adhesive stamps used under this Act to be properly cancelled.

4. Whenever an adhesive stamp shall be used on any document to denote the payment of duty under the provisions of this Act, the officer of the registry of deeds office who shall receive the document so stamped, and also the person who shall present the same, shall cancel the same by writing their respective names across the said stamp, so that the stamp may be appropriated to the instrument and be effectually cancelled, and rendered incapable of being used again.