The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-26

any sum OF money exceeding SlU
drawn upon any person or other than
bank, banker or trust company, at sight
or on demand, 2 cts
Contract TSee Agreement Brokers' 10 cts.
Conveyance deed, instrument of writing,
whereby lands, tenements, other
reality sold shall be conveyed, the ac-
tual value which does not exceed $500, so cts.
Exceeding 5000, and not exceeding 81 900, 81 90
For every additional five hundred dollars
or fractional part thereof, in excess of
one thousand dollars, so cts.
Entry OF any goods, wares or merchandise
atany custom house, not exceeding one
hundred dollars in value, 25 cts.
Exceeding one hundred dollars and not
exceeding five hundred dollars in value, so cts.
Exceeding five hundred dollars in value 81 90
For the withdrawal of any goods or mer-
chandize from bonded warehouse, SO cts.
Guagers return if for quantity not eX-
cceding five hundred gal. gross, 10 cts
exceeding oOO gallons, 25 cts.
Power of Attorney to sell or transfer
-, stock or collect dividends thereon, 25 cts.
10 vote at an election if an incorporated
company, 10 cts.
M 10 receive or collect rents, 25 cts.
10 sell, or convey, OF rent, or lease real
estate, 81 90
For any other purpose, so cts.
Probate Of will or letters of administra-
ton, where the value of both real and
personal estate does not exceed 81, 600, 81 90
For every additional 1000 or fractional
part thereof in excess of 81, 600, so cts.
si1ondS of executor administrators, guar
dams and trustees, are each subjected
to stamp duty OF ST 90
Protest upon bill note, check or draft % cts.
Promisory Note, (Sec Bills of Exchange,
inland,) Renewal of, subject to same
duty as an original note.
Nee+Pt @oaav for Or d9S Thynent M Of any sum of
dollars, or for the delivery of any pro-
pcrty, cts
Trust Deed made to secure debt to be
stamped as mortgage conveying estate
to uses, to be stamped as conveyance.
Warehouse Receipt for any goods, wares
or merchandise not otherwise provided
Tor, deposited or stored in any public
or private warehouse not exceeding
five hundred dollars in value, 10 cts.
Exceeding five hundred and not exceed
ing one thousand dollars, 20 cts.
Exceeding 1000 dollars, for every addi-
tional 600 dollars fractional part
thereof, in excess of $1,000, 10 cts.
For any goods, etc, not otherwise provi-
ded ior, stored or deposited in any public
or private warehouse yard, 25 cts.
Writs or Legal Documents, writ or other
legal process, by W itch any suit is COM
mcnccd in any court of record either
of law equity, so cts
Writ or original process issued bya court
not of record, where the amount claim
ed is 100 dollars or over, so cts.
Upon every confession of judgment or
cosnovit for 100 dollars over, except
in cases where the tax for writ has
,, been paid, so cts.
jurisdiction, 10 a court of record, 80 cts.
Warrants of distress, when the amount of
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol
lars, % cts.
When the amount exceeds 100 dollars, 50 cts.
Insurance, Marine, Inland and Fire
Where The consideration paid for the
insurance, i'll cash, premium notes, or
both, does not exceed 10 dollars, 10 cts.
fifty, so cts.
Insurance, Life, when the amount insured
does not exceed ! 900 dollars, 25 cts.
Exceeding 1,O00 and not exceeding 5000
dollars, ,oo so cts;
Lease lease lunds tcncments
Where the rents does not exceed 800 per
annum, so cts.
Exceeding 800 dollars, for each addition
III 200 dollars, or fractional part thereof
in excess of 500 dollars, 50 cts
Perpetual, subject TO stamp duty as
''convevancc."
Incorporated or iudorsed. five cents adj
ditOnal.
Mcasurcrs' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
cccding I,ooO bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding .01O bushels, p cts.
Mortgage, truSt decd, bill of sales,
personal bond for the payment OF money
exceeding 100 and not exceeding 800
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding, 500 dollars for every addition
al 500, or fractional part thereof in cX-
cess Of 500, so cts
Pawnur's Checks, ) cts.
Passage Ticket from the United States to
any foreign port, costing not more than
81 dollars, so cts.
Costing more than 81, and not exceeding
80, 1 90
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, in excess of 80 dollars, w
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscrfminatel
upon any of the matters things enumerated i
schedule B, except proprietary and playing car
stamps, for which special use has been provided
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment Z
the duty ciiargcable instruments.
Ii is the duty of the maker of an instrument t.
atX and cancel the stamp thereon. the neglect
to do SO, the party for whom it is made, ma
stamp it bctori. it is used; and if used after tn
3Gth of July, 1861, and used without stamp
cannot afterwards be ctfcctuaily stamped. An
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru
ment to appropriately stamp it, renders hi: 4 liza
bic to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced i'll many States by othe
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, put
liclion, petition, dc. i'll which these, til
original process, severally require stamps
Wfits o: scira faclS subject to stamp dut
as original processes.
The iurat of an affidavit, taken before Justic
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other office, dul
authorized to take ;ililaVits is held to be eel
titicate, and is subject to Il stamp duty of fv
cents, except when taken i'll suits of legal proceed
ings.
any printed written evidence of an amount q
money to be paid demand at any time dc
si@nat' d, are subject to stamp duty as Promlsor
Notes.
The assignment of mortgage is subject to TIL
same duty us that imposed upon the original in
strument; that is to say for every sum of tiv
hundred dollars, any fractional part thereof, q
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time O
its assignment there must be affixed stamp o
stamps, dcnoting duty of five cents.
When two or more persons join in the execution
of an instrument, the stamps to which this instru
ment is liable under the law, may be affixed ant
cancelled by of the parties
In convcyances of real estate, the law provide
that the stamp affixed must answer to the valu
of the estate on interest conveyed.
No stamp is required on any warrant of attoT
ncy accompanying bond or note when sucl
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp o
stamps denoting the duty required and wheneve
any bond noteis secured by mortgage, but on
stamp duty is required such papers, suc
stamp duty being the highest rates required TO
such Instruments, either of them. In such
case a note or memorandum of the value dc
nomination of the stamp affixed should be mad
upon the margin in the acknowledgement q
the instrument which is not stamped.