The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-17

Upon every confession of Judgment or
cognovit for 100 dollars or over, except 's
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
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.
dollars, so cts
Exceeding 5 900 dollars, 81 90
Lease or lease of lands or tcnements
where the rents does not exceed 300per
annum, so cts
Exceeding 800 dollars, for each addition.
in excess of 300 dollars, ' ''''' so cts.
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty a
Conveyance"
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
ditonal.
Measurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding 900 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding 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
35 dollars, so cts.
Costing more than 35, and not exceeding
so, 90
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, in excess of so dollars, 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue may he cd in6i ipoipa IL
upon any OF the matters or things enumerated il
schedule b. except proprietary and playing caro-
stamps, for which special use has been provided
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment o
the duty chargeable on instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker of an instrument tc
affX and cancel the stamp thereon. Ithe neglect.
to do SO, the party for whom it is made, ma
stamp it before it is used and if used after tn
3Oth of July, 1854 and used without stamp, j
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 othc
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
lication, petition &C., in which case these, as tn
original process, severally require stamps.
Writs OF scra facias are subject to stamp dut
as original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit taken before Justic
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other Officer dul
authorized to take ;ffidavits is held to be q Gel
titicate, and is subject to a stamp duty of fiv
cents, except when taken in suits of legal proceed
ings.
CeTtluCdtcS Ol lOan III WHICH Gnerc snail appea
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.
The assignment of mortgage is subject to tn
same duty as that imposed upon the original il.
strument; that is to say for every sum of fiv
hundred dollars, or any fractional part thereof,
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time
its assignment there must be affixed stamp o
stamps, denoting 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 an
cancelled by one of the parties.
In conveyances 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 attoi
ney accompanying bond or note, when sue
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp o
stamps denoting the duty required, and whcnev,
any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but on
stamp duty is required on such papers,
stamp duty being the highest rates required fc
such instruments, either of them. In such
case note or memorandum of the value or d.
nomination of the stamp affixed should be mac
upon the margin in the acknowledgement
the instrument which is not stamped.