The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-05

dians and trustees, are each subjected

to stamp duty of 81 90
Protest upon bill note, check or draft Is cts.
Promisory Note, (See Bills of Exchange,
inland,) Renewal of, subject to same
duty as an original note.
Receipt for the payment of any sum of
money, or debt due, exceeding twenty
dollars, or for the delivery of any pro-
perty, 3 cts
Trust Deed made to secure debt to be
stamped as mortgage conveying estate
to uses, to be stamped conveyance.
Warehouse Receipt for any goods, wares
or merchandise not otherwise provided
for, 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 900 dollars, for every addi-
tional i, 900 dollars or fractional 6ae part
thereof, in excess of 81, 900, 10 cts.
For any goods, ETC., not otherwise provi-
ded tor, stored or deposited in any public
or private warehouse or yard, 25 cts
WrltS or Legal Documents, writ or other
legal process, by which any suit is com
menced in any court of record, either
of law or equity, SO cts.
| Writ or original process issued by court
ed is 100 dollars or over, so cts.
Upon every confession of judgment or
cognovit for 100 dollars or over, except
| in cases where the tax for a writ has
| been paid, so cts.
| Writ or other process, appeals from JUS
| tices courts, or other courts of inferior
jurisdiction, TO court of record, so cts.
Warrants of distress, when the amount of
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol
lars, 25 cts.
When the amount exceeds 100 dollars, SO 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.
Exceeding ten dollars, and not exceeding
fifty, so cts.
Insurance, Life when the amount insured
does not exceed 200 dollars, 25 cts.
| Exceeding 600 and not exceeding 5000
dollars, so cts
Exceeding 5000 dollars, 81 90
Lease or lease of lands or tenements
| where the rents does not exceed 3OOper
annum, so cts
in excess of 800 dollars, so cts.
| Perpetual, subject to stamp duty as a
| "conveyance."
Clause OF guaranty of payment of rent
Incorporated or indorsed. five cents ad-
ditional.
Measurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding 1000 bushels, 10 cts.
| Exceeding l 600 bushels, 25 cts.
| Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales, or
personal bond for the payment of money
| exceeding 100 and not exceeding 500
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
al 500, or fractional part thereof, in
cess Of 500, so cts.
| Pawner's Checks, cts.
Passage Ticket from the United States to
any foreign port, costing not more than
35 dollars, so cts.
Costing more than 35, and not exceeding
| i
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, in excess of so dollars, 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
upon any of the matters or things enumerated in
schedule B, except proprietary and playing card
stamps, for which special use has been provided.
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment OF
the duty chargeable on instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker of an instrument to
atliX and cancel the stamp thereon. Ifhe neglects
! n n . m m
stamp it before it is used; and if used after the
30th of July, 1854, and used without stamp, il
cannot afterwards be effectualy stamped. Any
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 are commenced in many States by Other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants pub
licaton petition, &c, in which case these the
original process, severally require stamps.
| Writs of scira faciaS are subject to stamp duty
as original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit, taken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, other Officer duly
authorized to take atfidavits is held to be GER
tificate, and is subject to stamp duty of five
cents, except when taken in suits of legal proceed
ings.
any printed written evidence of an amount o.
money to be paid on demand or at any time de
signatCd, are subject to stamp duty as Promlsory
Notes
The assignment of mortgage is subject to the
same duty us that imposed upon the original in
strument; that is to say for every sum of five
hundred dollars, any fractional part thereof, o
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time O
its assignment there must be affixed stamp ol
stamps, denOting duty of five cents
| When two more persons join in the execution
of an instrument, the stamps to which this instru
ment is liable under the law, may be affixed anC
cancelled by of the parties.
In conveyances of real estate, the law provides
that the stamp affixed must answer to the value
of the estate on interest conveyed.
No stamp is required on any warrant of attor
ney accompanying bond or note, when sucf
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp o
6rrfxr 1irn1 an1J
any bond note is secured by mortgage, but ont
stamp duty is required on such papers, suef
stamp duty being the highest rates required to-
such instruments, either of them. In such
case note or memorandum of the value or de
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement o
the instrument which is not stamped.