Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-08-03
VOL. l0.--N0. 40.

Receipt for the payment OF any sum
! OF money or debt due exceeding
( $50, or Tor the delivery CT any prop
eTty cts
/ Receipt for satisfaction Of any mort
gage or Judgment or decree of any
court exempt
Sheriff return on writ, or other pro-
cess exempt
Trust Deed made TO secure a debt TO
be stamped mortgage.
Trust Deed, conveying estate to uses,
TO be stamped IA 4 conveyance.
Warehouse Receipt for amy goods,
wares, merchandise, not other
wise provided TOR, deposited or stor-
ed III any public.or private ware
house. not exceeding $500 IN value 10 cts
Warehouse Receipts exceeding $500
and not exceeding 81 900 90 cts
/ " arehouseReceiptSe exceeding 81 900
for additional 5 200, or fractional
part thereof in excess Of 81 900 10 cts
/ Warehouse Receipts for any goods,
! &c, not otherwise provided for,
stored or deposited in any public
or private warehouse or yard 25 cts
/ " rits and legal Documents
/ Writ or other original process by
which any suit is cOmmcncedin any
court OF record, either by law or
equity 80 cts
Writ or other original process issued
by 4 court not OF record, where the
amount claimed Is 500 or over 50 cts
| Upon every confession OF Judgment
or cognOyit for 500, Or over, ex-
ccpt In cases where the tax for
writ has been paid 80 cts
! Nrits, or other process on appeals
! from justice scOurtS, or other courts
| Of interior Jurisdictions, 10 a court
of record so cts
Warrant of distress, when the a
mount Of rent claimed does not cx-
coed 500 % cts
Warrant Of distress, when the IA
mount exceeds 500 80 cts
Wrlts summons and other process
es issued by justice Of the peace,
police or municipal court of no
greater jurisdiction than a justice
of the peace IN the same State exempt
WrtS and other process IN any Grim
inal or other suits commenced by
the United States IN any State exempt
Official documents instruments and
papers issued or used by officers of
The United States Government exempt
General Remarks.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscrim-
inateiy upon any Of the matters or things
enumerated IN Schedule b, except proprie-
tary and playing card stamps, for which
special use has been provided
Postage .Sta3pS cannot be used In pay
nIent OF the duty chargcable on Instruments
1t is the duty of "a maker of ar iustrlI-
ment to affix and cancel the stamp required
thereon. Ii he ueglects TO do SO, the party
for whose use 1t Is made may stamp IL before
1t Is used; but III no case can 1t be legally
used without a stamp, and if issued after
the 30th Of June. 1861, and used without
stamp, IL cannot be afterwards etIectually
stamped Any failure upon the part Of a
maker OF an instrument TO appropriately
stamp It renders him liable 10 penalty OF
two hundred dollars
Suits are commenced in many States by
other processes than writ, VIZ summons,
warrant, Publication. petition, &c, in which
cases these, as the original processes sever
ally require stamps.
SNrits of seire facias are subject to stamp
duty as original processes.
The jurat Of an affidavit, taken before
Justice Of the Peace, Notary Public or 9th
er officer duly authorized To take aftidavits.
is held to be a certificate and subject TO
stamp duty of five cents except when taken
in suits or legal proceedings.
CG-tifc0tcs Of L00It. IN which there shall
appear any written or printed evidence of
an amount Of money to oe paid on demand
or at 4 time designated, are subject TO stamp
duty as "PrOmissoTy Notes.
The assignment of q mortgage Is subject
10 the same stamp duty as that imposed
upon the original instrument; that is To say.
for every sum Of $500, or any fractional
part thereof, of the amount secured by the
mortgage at the time of its assignment,
there must be affixed stamp or stamps de
noting duty OF fifty cents.
When two or more persons JOIN IN the ex-
ecutiOn of an instrument, the stamp to
which the instrument IS liable under the
law, may be affixed and cancelled by any one
of the parties.
In conveyances Of real estate, the law
provides that the stamp affixed must an
swer to the Cahte of the estate or interest
conveyed.
No stamp is required on any warrant of
attorney accompanying i bond or note,
when such bond or note has affixed thereto
the stamp or stamps denoting the duty re
quired and whenever any bond CT note is
secured by mortgage, but one stamp duty
is required on such papers, such stamp du-
ty being the highest rate required Tor such
instruments, or either OF them In such
case, a note or memorandum OF the value
or denomination Of the stamp affixed should
be made upon the margin or in the
acknowledgements of the instrument v hich IS
not stamped
The Richmond papers last week killed off