The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1865-11-04
NUMBER 9.
25 cents

Exceeding 1000 bushels 25 cents
MoRTGAGE-trust deed, bill Of
sale, or personal bond for the
payment Of money exceeding
500, and not exceeding
$500, so cents
Exceeding $500, for every
additional $500, or fractional
part thereof, in excess Of
$500, so cents
PAwNERs' CHECKS, 8 cents
PAssAGE TIcKEr--from the
United States to any foreign
port, costing not more than
S35, .... so cents
CostiDg more than S35, and
not exceeding $50, $l.OO
For every additional $50, or
fractional part thereof, in ex'
cess Of $50, Sl.OO
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indscrimi.
nateIy upon any of the matters or things
enumerated in schedule b, except prophe-
tary and play ing card stamps, for which a
special use has been provided.
Postage stamps canuot be used in paw.
IL is the duty of the maker of an instru.
ment to attix aud cancel tbe stamp thereon.
II he neglccts TO do so, the party for whose
use it is made, may stamp it before 1t is
used, but in no case can il be le paIy used
without stamp; and if used after the
3Oih Of July, 1864, and spse6 with out n
stamp, it cannot afterwards be ef.ctually
stamped Any failure upon tho part of the
maker of an instrument TO appropriately
stamp l., renders him liable to penalty OF
two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced ir many States by
| other processes thaa writ, viz summons,
warrants, publication, petition, &c, in
which case these, as the original process,
ssverally require stamps.
Writs Of scira fdcias are subject to stamp
duty as original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit, taken before a
| Justice Of the Peace, Notary Public, or 9TH
er officer duly authorized to take afiidavits,
| il held to be certificate, and subjact TO q
stamp duty of cents, except when taken
in suits or legal proceedings.
| Certificates of loan ia which there shall
appear any printed or written evidence Of
an amount OF money to be paid on demand
or at any lime designated, are subject 70
stamp duty rs Promissory Notes.
| The assignment Of a mortgage IS subject
10 the same stamp duty as that imposed
upon the original instrument; that is to
say, for every sum Of five hundred dollars,
or any fractional part thereof, of the am suat
secured by the mortgage, at the time of its
assignment, there must be affixed a stamp
or stamps, denoting n duty Of fifty cents,
| When TIVE or more persons join ia tho
execution Of NJ instrument, the stamps TO
which this instrument is liable under tho
Law, nay be affixed and cancelled by ono or
tIe parties.
Ln conveyances Of real estate, the law
| provides that the stamp affixed mustanswer
to the value Of the estate on interest con.
veyed.
No stamp is required on asy warrant Of
attorney accompanying bond or mote,
when such bond or mote has affixed thereto
the stamp or stamps deno:ing the duty re-
qui'ed, aud whenever any boud or Esis iS
secured BY mortgage, but one stamp duty
Is required on such papers, such stamp du.
ty being the highest rates required for such
INSTRUMENTS, or either Of them. In such
case note or memorandum Of the valnS
or denomination Of the stamp affixed,
should be made upon the margin or in the
acknowledgement Of the instrument wkch