Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-27

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invested IN or upon any policy of NUMBERS as
aforesaid, with Just and legal costs Propided
JHrthsr, That the stamp duty herein provided for |
shall be olassed in the act to which this act is
an amendment under schedule Il, as follows, to |
wit
LOTTERY tickets, fractional parts of lottery
tickets, policies OF numbers in lotteries tokens,
certificates or devices in any form representing
the holder, or any person or persons, as entitled,
or 10 be entitled in any lottery scheme or game
Of hazard or cny 90, hereafter 10 be drawn to any
ps.Ga or pogtioN 81 D, % sum of money, or
share thereof, OF other article OF value OF any
portion or share thereof, when such ticket, frac-
toAal poyt OF ticket policy OF numbers, token,
oertlneate or device, shall not exceed one dollar
in the amount risked, or in the retail price there
of, fifty cents, 500 when such ticket, fractional
part OF ticket, policy token, certificate, or de-
vice, shall exceed one dollar in the amount risked
or in the retail price thereof, then for each and
every dollar, or fractional part thereof over and
above one dollar, as before mentioned, an addi-
tonal fifty cents, (503 Provided, holosper That |
no stamp duty herein provided for shall be con-
strued to authorize any lottery, the sale of any
lottery tickets, tokens or certificates, represent
ing shares or fractional parts OF shares therein,
within any State or Territory of the United States
in which lotteries the sale OF lottery tickets is
or shall be specially prohibited by the laws there
Of or in violation Of the laws of any State or Ter
ritory and nothing in this act shall be held or
construed so as to prevent the several States, |
within the limits thereof from placing a duty |
tax or license, Tor State purposes any sale Of
lottery tickets on which duty Is required TO be |
/ paid by this act"
See. 3. And be IL further enacted, That any per-
son or persons, firm, company or corporation,
who shall issue tickets contracts of insurance
ganst fatal or non-flta injury to persons while
travelling by land water, shall pay duty of one
per eentum on the gross amounts OF all the receipts
foe such Insurance. and shall be subject to all the
provision, and regulations of existing law appli-
cable thereto, in relation to insurance companies
| PROVIDED, That no stamp duty shall be required
| upon tickets or contracts of insurance atore-
said when limited to fatal or non-fttal injury TO
! persons while travelling
/ Sec l. And bat farther enacted, That all con-
tracts for the purchase sale of gold or silver com
| bullion, and all contracts for the loan of money
! or currency secured by pledge deposit or ,ther
| disposition of gold or silver coin Of the United
| States II 10 be performed after period exceed
ing three days, shall be in writing or printed, and
signed By the parties their agents or attorneys
/ and shall have one II more adhesive stamps, as
provided in the act to which this is an amendment
equal in amount to one half of one per centum and
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum
on the amount 50 loaned, pledged or deposited.
And il any such loan, pledge or deposit, made
for period not exceeding three days, shall be
renewed or in any way extended for any time
whatever, said loan, pledge or deposit shall be
subject to the duty imposed on loans exceeding
three days And no loan of currency or money
on the security Of gold silver com of the Uni
ted States aforesaid, or of any certificate or
other evidence of deposit payable in gold silver
coin, shall be made exceeding in amount the par
value OF the con pledged or deposited secur-
ity and any such loan so made, or attempted to
| be made shall be utterly void PROVIDED, That if
gold or silver coin be loaned at its par value it
shall be subject oay to the duty imposed on other
loans PrOridsd, hoWeper, That nothing herein
contained shall apply 10 any transaction by or
with the Government Of the United States.
I Sec. 5. 1nd be ii further enacted That all con-
tracts, loans sales OF gold and silver coin and
bullion, not made IN accordance with this act, shall
. be wholly and absolutely void; and in addltio
to the penalties provided in the act to which this
Is an amendment, any party to said contract may
at any time within one year from the date OF the
contract, bring SUIT before any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction to recover back, for his own use
and benefit, III money paid on any contract not
! made III accordance with this act.
See. 6. And be Il further enacted, That section
one hundred and ten be, and hereby is, amended
as follows; "Any memorandum, check rece pit,
or other written printed evidence of an amount
of money to be paid on dem md, or at a time des-
'suatod, shall be considered as a promissory tote
within the meaning OF that section, and shall be
stamped accordingly; and that Schedule b, fol-
lowing sad section be, and is hereby amended, SO
that any inland bill of exchange, draft, or order
Tor the payment OF any sum of money exceeding
twenty dollars, otherwise than at sight or on de-
mand, and any prom,ssory no,e shah Gn lieu o.
the du5,oi prescribed in Schedule b have STAMP
stamps affixed thereon denoting a duty upoI
every sum of two hundred dollars any fraction
al part thereof, If payable on demand or at any
time exceeding tuirty-three days including the
grace from the date or sight, of one cent, (0la
Ii payable at any time not less than thirty three
days aforesaid, and not exceeding xty-three
days, including the grace from date sight of two
cents, (03)
If payable at any time not less than sixty-thre,
days, as ltoreS1Id and not exceeding ninety three
days including he gaace; from date sight, o
three cents, (03)
II payable at any time not less than ninety
three days, aforesaid, and not exceeding
four months from date or sight and grace, of fou
/ cents, (04.)
If payable at any time not less than fou
! months, as Aforesaid, aad not exceeding ST.
months from date or sight, or grace of 81
cents, \06.)
If payable at any time exceeding six month
from date or sight and grace, of ten cents, Q0.)
And that Schedule b, following Sc ,tiOn one hun
dred and ten be, and Is hereby further amended
so that the stamp duty certificates of any o5he
description than those specified i'll said schedule, il
lieu Of ten cents as therein prescribed, shall be fv
cents, t05.)
/ On passage tickets by any vessel from port G
the United States to foreign port, costing thir
e dollars or less, fifty cents, (50)
On any power OF attorney for the sale er trans
A fer of any scrip or certificate of profits or memo
1 rantum, showing an interest ia the profits .
+ accumuiationS OF any corporation associa
ton, If for sum not exceeding fifty dollars, tel
= cents, Q0)
t On any policy of Insurance or other instrument
by whatever name tda same shall be called, b
g which Insurance SHAH be made renewed upo
property OF any description wne her against peril
: by sea- or by fire. or other peril of any kind, mad
by any insurance company its agents, or b
any oEher company person in which the prem
- cents, (I0)
y On any bill of sale BY which any ship or vess,
or any part thereof shall be conveyed to or veste
IN any other person persons when the consider
alton shall not exceed fl ge hundred dollars, theI
e shall be affixed a stamp stamps denoting a dut
= OF twenty-five cents, esq
Ii the consideration exceeds five hundred an
: does not exceed one thousand dollars, the dut
: shall be fifty cents, (j01
n II the consideration exceeds one thousand dol
lars, for each and every additional amount of on
: thousand dollars, any fractional part thereof
y excess OF one thousand dollars, the duty in add
y ton shall be fifty cents, (50)
r On each and every assignment or transfer of
: mortgage, lease, or policy of insurance STAN
d duty shall be paid equal to tlat imposed on tn
original instrument.
A Any power of attorney, conveyance, or docu
4 ment OF any kind made or purporting to be made
# IN any foreign country to be used in the Unite
4 States shall pay the duty as is required b,
4 law on similar instruments or documents whei
made or issued in the United States and the par
ty to whom the same is Issued or by whom it Is L
be used, shall, before using the same, afx thereon
i the stamp or stamps indicating the duty re
: quired
r Any mortgage or personal bond for the paymen
i OF money, or as security for the payment of an,
: definite or certain sum of money, in lieu of tn
: duties imposed as prescribed in Schedule follow
ing the one hundred and tenth section shall have
: a stamp or stamps atfixei thereon denOtng dutl
# upon every sum of two hundred dollars, or any
r fractional part thereof, of ten CENTS Q0.)