The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-26


Manifest exceeding 900 toAs 90
Measurers' Returns, if for quantity not ex-
ceeding one thousand bu ,hels 10 cts.
Measprers' Leturns exceeding sns thousand
bushels - - y "A 25 cts.
Mortgage, trust deed, bill Of sals or perso-
nal bond for tho payment of moaey ex-
cesding 500. and not exceeding $500 DO cts.
Mortgage exessding $500, for every adai- 141
excess Of $500 so cts.
| Pawuers' Checks cts. |
Pensions Papers.--Powers Of attorney, and
all other papers relating to applications
| for bounties, Arrcarages of pay, or PEN
sions, or to receipt thereof exempt.
Passage Ticket from the United States toa
foreign port costing not more than $50 so cts.
Passage Ticket from the United States to
| foreign port, costing more than $35, and
not exceeding $50 81 90
| Passage for every additional $50, or frac-
| tional part thereof in excess Of $50 81 90
| Power of Attorney to sell or transfer stock,
or collect dividends thereon rs cts.
| Power OF Attorney to vote at election Of
incorporated company 10 cts.
Power of Attorney to received collect rents rs cts
4 Power of Attorney to sell, or conway, or
rent, or lease real estate 81 90
| Power of Attorney for any other purpose 30 cts.
| Probate of VIII, or letters of sdministra-
ton, whore the value of both real and ftf
personal estate does not exceed $4,000 81 90
| Probate of WILL fsr every additional 81 900
| or fractional part thereof in excess Of
$4,000 rs 80 cts.
Probate of Wills, bonds of executors, adj '-
ministrators, guardians, and trustees, are
each subject to a stamp duty of 81 90
| Probate of Wills certificate OF appointment cts.
| Protest upon bill, note, check or draft % cts.
| Promissory Nots.-( Sec Bills of Exchange,
Inland
| Promissory deposit note to mutual nsu- 81.
rance COMPANIES, when policy is subject
to duty exempt.
Promissory renewal Of subject to same duty r +
An original pots.
Quit Claim Deed, to DO stamped as a con,
Yeysnee, except when given as release .a
ola mortgage by the mortgage to the 81.
mortgagoT, in which it is exempt.
Receipt tor the payment of any sum Of l
money or debt due exceeding $40, or for
the delivery of any proderty cts
Receipt for satisfaction of any mortgage or
Judgment or decree of any court exempt
Sheriff's return writ, or other process exempt.
Trust Deed, made to secure debt, to be
stamped as mortgage.
Trust Deed conveying estate to uses, to be
stamped as conveyance.
Warehouse Receipt for any goods wares,
or m .rchandise. not otherwise PROVIDED
} for, deposited or stored in any public or
private warehouse, not exceeding S5uoin
/. val.s 10 OTIS
WaIekSaso Receipt exceeding $500, and not
exceeding ST, 900 = 20 cts
Warehouse Receipt exceeding $1,000, for
every additional 81 900, or fractional part 70
0 thereof in excess OF 81 900 10 cts
Warehouse Receipt for any goods, &C., not
otherwise provided for, stored or deposit
ted in any public or private warehouse
;. or yard 20 cts
Write and legal doeaments;
Writ or other original process by which ii
;. any suit is commenced in any court of
record, ether of law or equity 30 cts
Writ OF other original process issued by
court not of record, whore tho amount
claimed is 500, or ovor 80 cts
Upon every Confession of judgment or cog
nOv.t for SlO0, over, except in cases
where the tax Cor writ has been paid 30 cts
s. Wrts, or other process appeals from
justices C uits, or other courts of inferior
s. Jurisdiction, to u court OF record 30 cts
Warrant Of distress, when the smount Of
s. rent claimed docs not exceed 500 IS cts
Warrant of distress, whom amount exceeds
IS. siOO so ct:
Is. Writs, summons, and other process Issued
by justice of the peace, police or muni-
It. cipal court, of no greater jurisdiction than
It. Justice of the peace in the State exempt
Writs, and other process in any criminal or
other suits commenced by the United
It. States in any State exempt
Official documents. instruments, and papers
issued Or used by officers OF the United
Es States Government exempt
Is. GENERAL REMARKS.
-s' Revenue stamps may be used indisorminate
upon any OF the matters or things enumerated n
49, Schedule b. except propriety and playing card stump
tor which speeal use has been provided.
a. Postage stamps cannot 10 used IN payment of tn
~ duty chargeabIe on instruments. tfls ....
IS, 1t is the duty OF the maker Of an instrument t.
af6x and cancel the stame required thereon II n
Gets to do So the party for whose 1T is mad
IS may stamp it before At used; but IN no case ean
legally used without stamp; and II issued ate
s' the 30th OF June, 1854, and used without stamp
cannotbs afterwards effeetually stamped. Any ail
IT, upon the part OF the maker CT AN instrument
appropriately stamp it renasrs him liable to penal
ty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by other pre-
w. cess than wrt, via summons, warrant pubncatiei
petition, DC, in which cases these, IS the origin,
processes, severally require stamps. aa
W. Mrits Of scire tacas SUBJECT to stamp duty
original processes. -.
The jurat Of an affidavit, taken before Justice
the Peace, Notary Public Vt other otscer duly AZ
thorlzed to take ahdaSits, is held to DO celthcst
and subject to stamp duty of i've cents, e1se
when taken in suits or legal proceedings.
Certificates Of loan, in which there shall apes
any written or printed evidence Oh an amount
money to be paid on demand, or at a time design,
M ted bIe subject to smp duty Promissory
w The assignment of q mortgage is subject to tn
same stamp duty az that imposed upon the origin
m instrument; that is TO say every sum OF five
drod dollars, or any fractonal part thereof vi IL
m amount scared by the mortgage IT. the time OF
W assignment, there must De affixed stamp or stamp
w denoting duty ofhfty cents.
VI hen two OF more persons Join in the execution
an instrument, the stamp to which the an trlnent
liable under the Law may DO ahixea cancelled /
one OF the parties.
t. In conveyance of real estate the law provides tn
A. the stamp affixed must answer to the value vi tue
VS. tate or interest conveyed.
No stamp is required ON any wurrant Of attorn'
accompanying bond or note, when such bond
. note mas affixed thereto the stamp stamps demo
'N' ing the duty required; and wherever any bond
an note is secured by mortgage, but stamp duty
w required on such papers, such stanp duty being
nest rate required for such instruments, eiah
~ OF them. In such case, note memorandum
P' the value Denomination of the stamp affixed shou
be made upon the margin or in the acknowledging
OF the instrument when is not stamped
''s u. 3. INTERNAL BEvENUE,
Collectors Notice. &
sts IN obedience to instructions received from
Commissioner of Internal Revenue notice is he