The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-09
RALEIGH, n. c., SATURDAY,
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol

rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol
lars, 25 cts.
When the amount exceeds 100 dollars, 50 cts
Insurance, Marine, Inland and Fire
Where the consideration paid for the
insurance. in cash, premium notes, or
both, docs not exceed 10 dollars, 10 cts.
fify, so cts
Insurance, Life, when the amount insured
does not exceed l,O0O dollars, 25 cts
Exceeding l ,0OO 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 800 per
annum, so cts.
Exceeding 800 dollars, for each addition
al 200 dollars, or fractional part thereof,
in excess of 500 dollars, so cts.
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty as
Conveyance"
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
incorporated or indOrsed, five cents ad-
ditonal.
Mcasurcrs' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding 900 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding 900 bushels, 25 cts.
Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales,
personal bond for the payment of fmoney
Exceeding 100 and not exceeding 500
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
cess of 500, so cts.
Pawner's Checks, cts.
Passage Ticket from the United States to
81 dollars so cts.
Costing more than 35, and not exceeding
For every additional fifty fractional
part thereof, in excess Of so dollars, 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indscriminately
upon any of the matters or things enumerated in
schedule Il, except proprietary and playing card
stamps, Tor which special use has been provided.
Postage stamps cannot be used i'll payment OF
the duty clargeable on instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker of an instrument to
afiX and cancel the stamp thereon. 1.-The neglccts
to do so, the party for whom it is madc may
stamp il before it is used; and if used after the
Both of July, 1861, and used without a stamp, it
cannot afterwards be cifectualy stamped. Any
failure upon the part OF the maker of an nstru-
ment to appropriately stamp il, renders him liza
bic to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced i'll many States by other
process than writ viz: summons, warrants, pub
licaion, petition, &c, in which case these, as the
original process, scverally require stamps.
Wriis Of sciTa tacias subject to stamp duty
as original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit, taken before a Justice
of the Peace, Notarr Public, or other office duly
authorized to take atfidavits, is held TO he
titicate, 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-
signat, d, subject to stamp duty rs PromisOry
Notes
The assignment ola mortgage is subject to the
same duty as that imposed upon the original in
st"umcnt; that is 10 say for every sum of five
hundred dollars, any fractional part thereof of
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time of
lis assignment there must be iliiNcd Il 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 nstru,
ment is liable under the law, may be affixed and
cancelled by one OF the parties.
In convcyanccs Of real estate, the law provides
that the stamp affixed must answer 10 the value
OF the estate on interest conveyed.
No stamp is required on any warrant of attor-
ney accompanying bond or note, when such
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp Oh
stamps dcnoting the duty required, and whenever
any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one
stamp duty is required such papers, such
stamp duty being the highest rates required for
suciI inst strumcnts, either Of them. In such 4
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.