The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-26
NO. 3d.
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol

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.
fifty, so cts.
Insurance Life when the amount insured
does not exceed GOO dollars. % cts.
Exceeding 1000 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 300per
annum, SO cts.
Exceeding 800 dollars, for each addition.
al 200 dollars, or fractional part thereof,
in excess of 800 dollars, 50 cts
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty
Conveyance"
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
incorporated or indorsed. five cents ad-
ditional.
Measurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding !, 200 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding 1000 bushels IS cts.
Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales. or
personal bond for the payment fmoney
exceeding 100 and not exceeding 800
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
al 800, or fractional part thereof, in
cess of 500, so cts.
Pawner's Checks, 5 cts
Passage Ticket from the United States to
any foreign port, costing not more than
Costing more than 35, and not exceeding
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, in excess of 80 dollars, 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminately
upon any or 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 of
the duty chargeable on instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker of an instrument To
affiX and cancel the stamp thereon. Ihe 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 stamp, 1t
failure upon the part of the maker of an instrT-
ment to appropriately stamp it, renders him lia-
bic to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits arc commenced i'll 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 facas subject to stamp duty
original processes
The jurat of an affidavit, taken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other office duly
authorized to take affidayits, is held to be Ger
tiicate and is subject to stamp duty of five
cents, except when taken i'll suits of legal proceed
ings.
Certificates of loan in which there shall appear
any printed written evidence of amount of
money to be paid on demand Or at any time de-
slgnatrd, are subject to stamp duty as Promisory
Notes.
The assignment of Il mortgage is subject to the
same duty as that imposed upon the original i'm
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 stamp or
stamps, dcnOting duty of five cents.
When two or more persons join in the execution
of an instrument, the stamps to which this instru
mcnt is liable under the law, may be affixed and
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 OH interest conveyed.
No stamp is required on any warrant of attor-
ney accompanying bond or note, when such
bond note has affixed thereto the stamp OIL
stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever
any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one
stamp duty is required on such papers, such
m mt hpi he hiCrlp atrS rcd for
such instruments, or either of them. In such IL
note memorandum of the value de-
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin or in the acknowledgements of
the instrument which is not stamped.