The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-01
Check Draft or Order for the payment of

Cuech DraIt or Ordcr Or the payment OIL
any sum of money exceeding $40,
drawn upon any person or other than
bank, banker ortrust company, at sight
orOn demand, 2 cts.
Contract [see 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 $780, so cts
Exceeding $500, and not exceeding 81 900, 81 90
For every additional five hundred dollars,
or fractional part thereof, in excess of
one thousand dollars, 80 cts.
Entry of any goods, wares or merchandise
at any 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.
Guager's return if for quantity not ex-
ceeding five hundred gal. gross, 10 cts
Exceeding 800 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
y, company, 10 cts.
I 10 receive or collect rents, 25 cts
10 sell, or convey, or 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 81, 600 or fractional
part thereof, in excess of s., 900, so cts
BONDS OF executor, administrators, guar
subjected
to stamp duty of 81 90
Protest upon bill note, check or draft 25 cts
fromisory Note, (See Bills of Exchange,
lnlahd,) Renewal of, subject to same
duty as an original note.
Receipt for the Tayment of any sum of
money, or debt due, exceeding twenty
dollars, or for the delivery of any pro-
perty, 2 cts.
Trust Deed made to secure a debt to be
Stamped rs mortgage conveying estate
10 uses, to be stamped as conveyance.
warehouse Receipt for any goods, wares
or merchandise not otherwise provided
Tor, deposited or stored in any public
OF private Warehouse not exceeding
five hundred dollars in value 10 cts
Exceeding five hundred and not exceed
ing ing one one thoasand 1s dollars, 20 cts.
Exceeding LOU dollars, for every add-
tIonal 1000 dollars or fractional part
thereo1 IN excess of 81 900, 10 cts
For any goods, ETC., not otherwise provi-
ded for, stored or deposited in any public
or private warehouse or ward, % cts
Writs or Legal Documents, writ or other
legal process, by which any suit is COM
hieAced IN amy court of record, either
OF law or equity, so cts
writ or original process issued by a court
not OF record, where the amount claim
1r1oJ 9o is dDsr loo dollars liar or over so cts
co%novt for 100 dollars or over, except
IN CASES where the tax for writ has
% been paid, so cts.
Writ or other process, appeals from JUS
!icts courts, or other courts of inferior
warrants oil distress, when the amount of
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol
lars, % 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 900 dollars, 25 cts.
Exceeding ,OG0 and not exceeding 5000
dollars, so cts
Exceeding 5000 dollars, 81 co
Lease or lease of lands or tencments
where the rents does not exceed 800 per
annIn, so cts.
EXceedn" 800 dollars, for each addition
al 200 dollars, or fractional part thereof,
>, III excess OF 800 dollars, 80 cts.
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty as
"conveyancc."
Clause OF guaranty of payment of rent
Incorporated or indorscd. five cents ad-
ditiOnal.
Mcasurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
cectiing 900 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding ,UU0 bushels, 25 cts
Mortgage, trust decd, 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 5OO, or fractional part thereof, in eX-
cess of 500, 80 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 81, and not exceeding
30, 90
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, i'll excess of 80 dollars, 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscrimnate
upon any of the matters or things enumerated
schedule b, except proprietary and playing cal
stamps, for which special use has been provides
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment
the duty chargcable on instruments.
Ii is the duty of the maker of an instrument
affiX and cancel the stamp thereon. Ifhe neglec
to do so, the party for whom it is made, ma
stamp it before it is used; and if used after ii
Both of July, 1864, and used without stamp,
cannot afterwards be eftectually stamped; An
failure upon the part of the maker of an instrl
mcnt to appropriately stamp it, renders him lii
bic to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by otht
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pu
ication, petition, sc, in which case these, as IL
original process, severally require stamps.
Writs of scra facas are subject to stamp dut
The iurat of an affidavit, taken before a Justic
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other Officer dul
authorized to take afiidavits, is held to be Il ce
tificate, and is subject to Il stamp duty of tiI
CENTS except when taken in suits of legal proceed
ingS.
Certificates of loan in which there shall appes
any printed or written evidence of an amount {
money to be paid on demand or at any time d.
signat. d, are subject to stamp duty as Promisor
Notes.
Inc assignment OF Il mortgage Is SUBJECT TO I'll
same duty as that imposed upon the original il
strument; that is to say for every sum of fiy
hundred dollars, or any fractional part thereof,
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time {
its assignment there must be affixed stamp c
stamps, denoting duty of five cents.
When two or more persons join in the eXecutio
of an instrument, the stamps to which this instrl
ment is liable under the law, may be affixed an
cancelled by one of the parties.
In convcyances of real estate, the law provide
that the stamp affixed must answer to the valu
of the estate interest conveyed
No stamp is required on any warrant of alto
ney accompanying Il bond note, when sue
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp c
stamps denoting the duty required, and wheneve
any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but on
stamp duty is required on such papers, sue
stamp duty being the highest rates required fC
such instruments, or either of them. In such
case note or memorandum of the value dt
nomination of the stamp affixed should be mad
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement
the instrument which is not stamped.