WRONG stamp. By 37 George III. c. 136. any instrument (except bills of ex change, promissory notes, or other notes, drafts, or orders) liable to stamp-duty, whereon shall be impressed any stamp of a different denomination, but of an equal or greater value than the stamp required, may be stamped with the proper stamp after the execution, on payment of duty and five pounds penalty, but without any allowance for the wrong stamp.
Likewise any such instrument (except as aforesaid) being ingrossed without having been first stamped, or having a stamp thereon of less value than required, the same may be stamped after the exe cution, on payment of the duty and ten pounds penalty only, for each skin there of: but in case it shall be' satisfactorily proved to the Commissioners of stamps, that the same bath been so ingrossed ei ther by accident or inadvertency, or from urgent necessity, or unavoidable circum stances, and without any intention of fraud, the Commissioners are authorized to stamp the same within sixty days after the execution, to remit the penalty in part, or in all, and to indemnify persons so engrossing the same.
"Nhr or x, is the twenty-second letter of our alphabet, and a double nant. It was not used by the Hebrews or ancient Greeks ; for as it is a compound letter, the ancients, who used great plicity in their writings, made use of, and expressed this letter by its component letters cs. Neither have the Italians this letter, but express it by ss. X begins no word in our language but such as are of Greek original, and is in few 'others but what are of Latin derivation, as perplex, reflexion, defuxion, &c. We often express this sound by single letters, as cks in backs, necks ; by ks in books, breaks ; by cc in access, accident; by ct in action, tion, &c. In numerals it expresses 10, whence in old Rom. n manuscrips it is used for denarius ; and as such seems to be made of two V's placed One over the other. When a dash is added over it, thus X, it signifies ten thousand.