Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-08-24

SIC. 1862. And be ii further enacted, That it
shall be lawful for any person to present to the
collector If the district, subject TO the rules and
regulations OF the Comm ssloner Of luternal
Revenue, any ms rument not previously issued
or used. and req ulre his 0 inlo0 whether or not
the same is chars cable with any stamp duty;
and il the said collector shall be of opinion that
such instrument is ChaTge1ble with any stamp
duty, he shall, Upon the pay ment therefr, af1x
ana C.nCel ,h= proper stamp; and if of the opin-
ion that such lnstrum nj not chargeab'e with
any stamp duty, or is ChaTSeab)e only With the
duty BY him designated, lac is hereby REQUIRED
to impress thereon particular stamp, to be Iro-
vded for that purpose with such words or de
vice thereon as he shall judge proper, which shall
denote that such instrument is not chargeable
with any stamp duty or is Chargeable only with
the days denoted by the stamp affixed and eve!v
such Instrument upon which the said amp shall
be impressed shall be de- med to be not chargea-
BILE, or to be chargeable only with the duty de-
noted by the stamp so affixed, and shall be re-
ceived in evidence in all courts Of law or equity,
notwithstanding any objections made to n e sam
by reason of # being unstamped, or of it being
insut1iciently stamped
SEC. 1913. A11d be ii further enacted, Tha. 10
deed, instrument, documcnr, writing, or paper
required by Nv f. be stamped, which has teen
heretofore signed or issued without being duly
stamped, or with defC emf stamp, nor any
copy thereof, shall be record or admitted r
used as evlten in any court until lcgd stamp
or stamps, dun1tmg the amount OF duty, shall
have been atliX thereto, and the date, when
the same is so used or affixed, with his initials,
shall have been placeI thereon By the person
using or aihNl1g the same; and the person de
string TO use or record any such dCet, instru-
ment writing, or paper as evidence, his agent or
attorney, is authorized IN the presence of th9
court register, or recorder, respectively to atfix
| the stamp 0, stamps thereon require /! ProUided
| That no instrument, document or paper made,
signed, or issued prior 20 the passage of this act
| without being duly stamp d, or having thereon
| an adhesive stamp or stamps, to denote the duty
at bp
stamp or stamps required shall be subsequently
affixed be deemed invalid and Of 10 effect: Pro-
| rided, further, That any power Of attorney, con-
veyance, or document of any kind, made or
| Purporhng to be made in any foreign country
| to be sd in the United States, shall pay the
ssme duty as is required by law sim dar instru
ments or documents when made or issued in the
! United States and the pa ty to whom the same
| is issued or by whom it is to be used, SHALL be-
| fore using the same, afX thereon the stamp or
| stamps indicating the duty required.
| SEC. l64. And be 1t further enacted, That all
the provisions of this act relating to dies stamps
| adhesive stamps, and stamp duties shall extend
| to and include Except where manifestly imprac-
| tiCable) all the articles objsc enumerated
in schedule marked G, subject to stamp dutie',
and apply to the provisions in relation there
to.
SEC 165. And be IL further enacted, That if
| any person, firm, company, or corporation shall
| make prepare, and sell, or remove for consump-
| ton or sale, drugs, medicines preparations, COM
| positions, articles, OF tnngS, including perfume
| ~, cosmetics, lueifer friction matches, cigar
| lights, or wax tapers photographs, ambrotypes
daguerreotypes, or other sun pictures of any des-
crption, and playing cards, upon which a duty
| is imposed by Law, as enumerated and ment oned
in Schedule Q, without afixlng thereto an adhes.
i've stamp, or label denoting the duty before men
| toned, he or they shall incur a penalty of ten
| dollars for every omission to afix such stamp
| ProUided That nothing in this act contained
! shall apply to any incorporated medicinal
drugo chemical, L or TO any medicine compoun-
| de1 according TO the United States or other ma
tional pharmacopoeia, nor of which the full and
| proper formula is published in either of the dis
| pensatories, formularies, or textbooks in COM
mon use among physicians and spothecaries, in.
| Guiding homeopathic and eclectic, or in any
| Pharmaceutical journal now used by any incof-
porated college of pharmacy, and not sold or
! offered for sale or advertised under any other
| name form, or guise, than that under which
they may be severalIy denominatet and laid
down in said pharmacop9ias, diseensatories,
textbooks, or journals, as aforesaid, nor to me-
dicines sold 70 or for the use of any person,
which may be mixed and compounded specially
for said persons, according to the written recipe
| OF prescription of any physician or surgeon.
/ SIC I66. A1,d Be Il further enacted, That every
manufacturer or maker of any Of the articles ios
} sale mentioned III Schedule C. after the SAN