The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-21
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al a0odeHars fractional part thereof = 81 ~
in excess of 800 dollars, o0 cts.s 81
perpetual, subject to stamp duty as Q
"conveyance.''
incorporated or Endorsed. five cents adj
aeas sia Return, iffor quantity not cx g
Exceedin1,r OoO bushels 25 cts.
. Mortgage, trust decd, bill of sales, or
personal bond for the payment OF money
dollars so cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
az u.s. 20 Of 500 SO cts.
Pawner's Checks, CTS.
Passage Ticket from the United states 10
MY ~ doihrs' po- = -. : ~, so cts.
cg 5a more than 90 anu no' sN'''1 90
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, in excess of SO dollars, 1 w
GENERAL REMARKS. e.
Revenue Stamps may be used Unfortunately
upon any of the matters or things enumerated III
schedule B, except proprietary and playing card
stamps, for which special use has been provided.
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment oil
the duty chargeable ON instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker OF an instrument 10
affix and cancel the stamp thereon. 1.-The neglects
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 a stamp, it
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
, mcnt to appropriately stamp it, renders him Il-
Bile to a penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by other
process than writ viz: summons, warrants, pup
LEGATION, petition &c, in which case these, as the
original process, severally require stamps
Writs of scira facias are subject to stamp duty
original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit taken before a Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other Officer duly
authorized t. take affidavits, is held to be GER
tiicate, and is subject to stamp duty OF i've
cents except when .ken in suits of legal proceed
ings.
Certificates of loan in which there shall appear
any printed written evidence of an amount OF
money to be paid on demand or at any time de-
signatcd, are subjectto stamp duty as Promsory
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, any fractional part thereof, OF
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time OF
its assignment there must be affixed a stamp or
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 and
cancelled by one of the parties.
In convcyances of real estate, the law provides
that the stamp affixed must answer to the value
of the estate OH 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 OIL
stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever
any bond 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 q
case note memorandum of the value or de-
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin in the Acknowledgement of
the instrument which is not stamped.