The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-24
NO.29.
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol

rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol
lars, lars, 25 cts.
When the amount exceeds 100 dollars, 80 cts.
Insurance, Marine, Inland and Fire
Where the consideration paid for the
insurance, in 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.
dollars, so cts
EISSSsssding ! 5000 dollars, 81 90
'IaI1 %Tar.r lease of lands tenements
r., annum, soS so cts.
ESeeed9g S son 1g 800 collars, for each addition.
in excess of 800 dsIiars, ~ SO cts.
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty as a
'conveyance.' '
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
Incorporated or indorsed. fi,q cents ad-
Me:lsurers' Return, if for quantity rot ex
ceeding GOO bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding l 900 bushels, 25 cts
Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales or
personal bond for the payment money
exceeding 100 and not exceeding 500
dollars, so cts
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
al 5OO or fractional part thereof, in
cess of 5OO so cts.
Pawner's Checks, cts.
Passage Ticket from the United States to
80 dollars, so cts.
Costing more than s5, and not exceeding
So 90
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof in excess of SO dollars, 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscrmnatcly
upon any of the matters or things enumerated in
schedule B, except proprietary and playing card
stamps, for which a special use has been provided.
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment of
the duty chargeable OH instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker of an instrument To
afiiX and cancel the stamp thereon. If he ncglects
to do so, the party for whom it is made, may
stamp it before it is used; and if used after the
3Oth of July, 1864 and used without stamp, it
h,I off M ct
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
ment to appropriately stamp it, renders him liza
BILE to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits commenced in many States 10y other
process than writ, viz summons, warrants, pub
lication, petition &c. in which case these, as the
original process, severally require stamps
Writs of scira iacias are subject to stamp duty
original processes.
The iurat OF an affidavit. taken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other Office. duly
authorized to take af1davits, is held to be a
titicate, and is subject to Il stamp duty of five
cents, except when taken III suits OF legal proceed
Certificates of loan in which there shall appear
any printed written evidence of amount ni
money to be paid demand or at any time de-
signat'd are subject to stamp duty as Promisor:
Notes.
The assignment of mortgage is subject to the
same duty as that imposed upon the original in
strument; that is to say for every sum of five
hundred dollars or any fractional part thereof, of
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time of
its assignment there must be affixed stamp or
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 and
cancelled by one of the parties.
In cOnveyanccS of real estate, the law provides
! that the stamp affixed must answer to the value
| of the estate interest conveyed
No stamp is required on any warrant of attor-
ney accompanying a bond or note, when such
| bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp OF
| stamps dcnoting the duty required, and whenever
any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one
stamp duty is required on such papers, such
stamp duty being the highest rates required for
such Instruments either Of them In such II
note or memorandum of the value or de-
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement of
! the instrument which is not stamped.