The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-25

| OF license, state purposes, ON any sale OF
lottery tickets on which duty is required to be
| paid by this act.''
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That any per-
son or persons, firm, company, or corporation,
who shall Issue tickets or contracts of insurance
against fatal non-fatal injury to persons while
travelling by land or water, shall pay duty of
one per centum on the gross amount of all the re
ceipts or such insurance, and snail be subject to
all the provisions and regulations of existing law
panies: Provided, That no stamp duty shall be
required upon tickets contracts of insurance
as aforesaid, when limited to fatal or non-tata in
jury to persons while travelling.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all con-
tracts for the purchase sale of gold silver
coin, bullion and all contracts :or the loan of
money currency secured by pledge deposit
or other disposition of gold or silver coin of the
United States, if to be performed after period
exceeding three days, shall be in writing prn-
ted, and signed by the parties or their agents
attorneys, and shall have one or more adhesive
stamps, as provided in the act to which this is
amendment equal in amount to half of one
per centum and interest at the rate of six per
tnm per annum on the amount SO loaned, plcdg
! ed, or deposited. And if any such loan, pledge
or deposit, made for period not exceeding three
days, shall be renewed or in any way extended for
any time whatever, said loan, pledge or deposit
ceedinG three days. And no loan of currency
money on the security of gold or silver coin of
| the United States, aforesaid, or of any certd-
cate or other evidence of deposit payable in gold
or silver coin, shall be made exceeding in amount
| the par value OF the coin pledged or deposited
| ted to be made shall be utterly void Provided,
That if gold or silver coin be loaned at its par
value it shall be subject only to the duty imposed
on other loans Provided, however, That moth
ing herein contained shall apply to any transac-
ton by or with the government OF the United
States.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all con-
tracts loans, sales of gold and silver coin and
bullion, not made in accordance with this act
shall be wholly and absolutely void; and in addi
tion to the penatits provided in the act to which
this is an amendment, any party to said contract
may, at any fine within one year from the date of
the contract bring suit before any court of COM
petent Jurisdiction to recover back, for his own
use and benefit, the money paid on any contract
not made in accordance with this act.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That section
| one hundred and ten be, and hereby is, amended
as follows ANY memorandum, check, receipt,
or other wittcn or printed evidence OF all amount
! of money to be paid on demand, or at a time de-
! signated shall be considered us promiss DRY otc
within the meaning of that section, and shall be
stamped accordingly; and that Schedule b, fol-
lowing said section be, and is hereby amended, SO
that any inland bill of exchange, draft or order
! for the payment OF any sum OF money exceeding
| twenty dollars, otherwise than at sight on de-
mand, and any promissory shall (in lieu of
the duties prescribed in Schedule b have a stamp
Or stamps affixed thereon denoting Il duty, upon
! every of two hundred dollars Orany fraction
/ al part thereof, if payable on demand at any
time not exceeding -thirty-three days including
or
If payable at any time not less than thirty three
days as aforesaid, and not exceeding siXty-three
days, including the grace, from date or sight, of
two cents, (02)
| Ii payable at any time not less than sixty-three
days as aforesaid and not exceeding ninet y-thrce
days, including the grace, from date or sight, of
three cents, (l3.)
If payable at any time not less than ninety three
days, as aforesaid, and not exceeding four months
from date or sight and grace, OF four cents (04.)
| If payable at any time not less than four
months aforesaid, and not exceeding six
months from date sight, or gr ce, of six cents,
| 0O)
If payable at any time exceeding six months
from date sight and grace, OF ten cents, 1O.)
And that Schedule B, following section one
hundred and ten be, and is hereby further amen
ded so that the stamp duty on certificates OF any
other description than those specified in said
schedule, in lieu of ten cents therein pres cr
bed, shall be five cents, (Oo)
On passage tickets by any vessel from port of
the United States to foreign port, costing thirty
dollars or less fifty CENTS (5O.)
| On amy power OF attorney for the sale or trans
fer of any scrip or certificate of profits memo
randum, showing an interest in the profits or ac
| cumuatOns of any corporation or association, II
for sum not exceeding fifty dollars, ten cents,
| Q0)
On any policy of insurance other instrument,
by whatever name the same shall be called, by
! which insurance shall be made or renewed upon
property OF any description whether against per
lis by sea, or by fire. or other peril OF any Kind,
made by any insurance; company or its agents, or
/ by any other company or person in which the pre-
MUM assessment shall not exceed ten dollars,
| QO)
any part thereof shall be conveyed to or vested
! i'll any other person or persons wnen the conslde-
ration shall exceed five hundred dollars there
shall be affixed stamp or stamps denoting a duty
| of tWenty-tIN cents, Us.
| If the consideration exceeds five hundred and
| does not exceed one thousand dollars, the duty
shall be fifty cents, go
| If the consideration exceeds one thousand dol
| lars, for each and every additional amount of one
! thousand dollars or any fractional part thereof,
| in excess Of one thousand dollars, the duty in ad
dtion shall be fifty cents, (50.)
On each and every assignment or transfer OF
mortgage, lease, or policy of insurance, stamp
duty shall be paid equal to that imposed on the
original instrument.
Any power of attorney, conveyance, or docu-
ment of any:kind made, or purporting to be made,
| in any foreign country to be used in the United
| States shall pay the same duty as is required by
| law similar instruments or documents when
made or issued in the United States and the party
| to whom the same is issued, by whom it is to
be used, shall, before using the same, a1liX there
on the stamp or stamps indicating the duty re-
quired
| Any mortgage personal bond for the pay
ment of money, or as security for the payment of
any definite certain sum of money, i'll lieu of
the duties imposed as prescribed in Schedule b
| following the one hundred and tenth section,
shall have stamp or stamps affixed thereon de-
noting duty upon every sum of two hundred
dollars, or any fractional part thereof, of ten
cents, QO)
| No conveyance, deed, mortgage, writing,
whereby any lands, tenements, realty, other
property shall be sod granted assigned or 9th
erwlse conveyed, or shall be made security for
the payment OF any sum of money, shall be re-
quired to pay stamp duty of more than the sum
of one thousand dollars, anything to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
! NO stump uuly SHdll De required on powers VI
attorney or any other paper relating to arplica-
tions for bounties, arrearages of pay pensions,
or to the receipt thereof from time to time; or
indemnity awarded for depredations and injuries
by certain bands OF Sioux Indians; nor on any
warrant of attorney accompanying a bond
note when such bond or note shall have affixed
thereto the stamp or stamps denoting the duty
required and whenever any bond or note shall
be required to be placed on such papers Irogi-
ded, That the stamp duty placed thereon is the
highest rate required for said instruments, or
either of them; nor on certificates of the meas
urement or W eight of animals, wood, coal, or 9TH
er articles nor on deposit notes to mutual insu
rance companies for insurance upon which poll
cles subject to stamp duties have been, arc to
be, issued nor on any certificate of the record of
| a deed or other instrument in writing, or of the
acknowledgment or proof thereof by attesting
| witnesses.
The duty or stamp required for transportation
by express companies and others is hereby re-
pcaled, and such transportation shall be exempt
from stamp duty.
That the stamp duty on a contract or agree
ment for the charter of any. ship, or vessel,
or steamer, as now provided for in Schedule
b, or any letter, memorandum, Cor other wri-
ting between the captain, master, or owner, or
person acting as agent of any ship, or vessel, or