Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-17

pau ny the purchaser OF such stamped paper,
Vellum, or parchment;" and by striking out the
word discount" and inserting in lieu thereof
the word Commission"
mat section one hundred and twelve be and
hereby is amended by inserting after the word
district, where it first occurs, as follows: "of
which the deceased person was II RESIDENT" and
by inserting after the word district" where it
next occurs, as follows: "of which the deceased
person was resident"
Sect. .. And be it further enacted. that on and
after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and
slXty-three, no person or persons, association
firm, or corporation shall make sell, or offer for
sale, or dispose of any lottery ticket, or fraction
al part thereof, or any policy of numbers in any
lottery, or any token, certificate device repre-
senting or intending to represent the holder, or
any other person or persons as entitled or to be
entitled i'll any lottery, lottery scheme, or game
OF hazard or chance to be drawn, to any prize or
share or part of prize, or any sum or part or
snare OF any sum OF money, or other article of val
ne, or any fractional part thereof, without atiix
ing thereto an adhesive stamp or stamps denot
ing the duty imposed by this act and in default
thereof shall incur penalty of fifty dollars for
each and every offence; and no prize or part of
prize drawn TO or by any ticket, or fractional
part thereof, token, certificate ordevice as afore
said, an | no sum of money or thing of value made
payable Or deliverable upon any stake or invest
ment or risk IN, or upon any policy of numbers,
Shall be demanded or recovered by any legal
proceedings or otherwise, without the ticket or
fractional part thereof, or policy Of numbers, to-
ken certlhcate, Or Device shall have been duly
stamped 1t the time of the making sale or deliv
cry or disposal thereof: Provided, that in addi-
uon to all other penalties and IorieiturcS now
imposed by law for the evasion of stamp duties,
any person who shall purchase, obtain, or receive
any lottery ticket, or fractional part thereof, or
any token, certificate, or device representing or
intended to represent lottery ticket, or fraction
al part thereof, or any policy of numbers with
out 1rst having thereon the stamp imposed by
this act, may recover from the person of whom
the same was purchased, Obtained or received
at any time within three years thereafter before
any court Of competent Jurisdiction, sum equal
to twice the amount paid for such ticket or trac-
honal part thereof, token, certificate, device,
or staked or invested in or upon any policy of
numbers as aforesaid, with just and legal costs:
PROVIDED further, that the stamp duty herein pro-
vided shall be cassed in the act to which this act
IS an amendment under schedule b, as follows
to wit:
Lottery tickets, fractional parts of lottery
tickets, policies of numbers in lotteries, to-
kens, certificates, or devices in any form, repre-
senting the holder, or any person or persons, as
entitled, or 10 be entitled, In any lottery scheme
or game of hazard or chance, hereafter to be
drawn, to any prize or portion of prize or sum
OF money, or share thereof, or other article of
value or any portion or share thereof, when such
ticket, fractional part Of ticket, policy OF num-
bers, token, certificate, or device, shall not eX-
coed one dollar in III, amount risked, or in the
retail price thereof, fifty cents, (503 when such
ticket, fractional part of ticket, policy token,
certificate, or DEVICE shall exceed one dollar in
the amount riskcd, or in the retail price thereof,
then for each aud every dollar, or fractional part
thereof, over AMI above one dollar, as before
mentioned, an additional fifty cents, (50o Pro-
yjded, however, that no stamp duty herein pro-
vided for shall be construed to authorize any lot
terry or the sale OF any lottery the sale of any
lottery tickets tokens or certificates, representing
shares, or fractional paris of shares there
IN, within any State or territory of the United
States in which lotteries the sale of 10 terry
tickets is or shall be specially prohibited by the
laws thereof or i'll violation of the laws of any
state or territory and nothing in this act shall he
held or construed so as to prevent the several
States within the limits thereof, from placing a
duty, tax, or license, for state purposes, on any
sale of lottery tickets on which a duty Is required
TO be paid by this act.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that any
person or persons, firm, company, or corporation,
who shall issue tickets or contracts OF insurance
against fatal OF nonfatal injury to persons while
travelling by land Or water, shall pay duty of
one per centum on the gross amount of all the
receipts for such insurance, and shall be subject
to all the provisions an regulations of existing
laws applicable thereto, in relation to insurance
companies: Provided that no stamp duty shall
be required upon tickets or contracts of insur-
ance, as aforesaid, when limited to fatal or nom
fatal injury 10 persons while travelling.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that all con-
tracts for the purchase sale of gold silver
coin, or bullion, and all contracts for the loan of
money or currency secured by pledge or deposit
or other disposition of gold or silver coin OF the
United States, if to be performed after period
exceeding three days, shall BIS in writing, or
printed and signed by the parties or their agents
or attorneys; and shall have one or more adhe-
sive stamps, as provided in the act TO which this
is an amendment, equal in amount to Onehalfo of
one per centum, and interest at the rate of six
per centum per annum on the amount SO loaned,
pledged, or deposited. And if any such loan,
pledge, or deposit, made for period not exceed
ing three day shall be renewed or in any way
extended for any time whatever, said loan pledge,
or deposit, shall be subject to the duties imposed
on loans exceeding three days And no loan of
currency or money on the security of gold or sill
yer coin of the United States as aforesaid, or of
any certificate other evidence of deposit pay
able in gold or silver coin shall be made exceed
ing in amount the par value of the coin pledged
or deposited as security; and any such loan so
made or attempted to be made shall be utterly
void: prov ided, that if gold or silver can be
loaned at its par value it shall be subject only to
the duty imposed on other loans: provided, how
ever, that nothing herein contained shall apply
to any transaction by or with the government of
the United States.
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, that all con
tracts loans or sales OF gold and silver com ana
bullion, not made in accordance with this act,
shall be wholly and absolutely void; and, in adj
dition 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 competent jurisdiction to recover back,
for his own use and benefit, the money paid on
any contract not made i'll accordance with this
act.
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, that sec
ton one hundred and ten be and hereby is amen
ded as follows: amy memorandum, check, re-
ceipt, or other written or printed evidence of an
amount of money to be paid on demand, or at "a
time designated, shall be considered as a promis-
sorry note within the meaning of that section, and
shall be stamped accordingly: and that schedule
B, following said section, be and is hereby am
ended SO that any inland bill of exchange, draft,
or order for the payment of any sum of money
exceeding twenty dollars, otherwise than at sight
or on demand, and any promissory note shall lin
lieu Of the duties prescribed in schedule b, have
a stamp or stamps affixed thereon denoting a
duty, upon every sum of two hundred dollars or
any fractional part thereof, ifpayable on demand
or at any time not exceeding thirty-three days,
including the grace from the date or sight, of
one cent, (0l.)
If payable at any time not less than thirty
three days as aforesaid, and not exceeding sixty
three days, including the grace from date or
sight, two cents, 1927
l. payable at any time not less than sixty-three
days, as aforesaid, and not exceeding ninety
three days, including the grace, from date or
sight, of three cents, (03.)
If payable at any time not less than ninety
three days, as aforesaid, and not exceeding four
months from date or sight, and grace, of four
cents, (04.)
If payable at any time not less than four
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