The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-29
NO. 81.
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol

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,
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 900 dollars, % cts.
Exceeding 1000 and not exceeding 5000
dollars, 80 cts.
Exceeding 5000 dollars, 81 90
Lease or lease of lands or tenements
where the rents does not exceed 300per
annum, so cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for each addition
al 200 dollars, or fractional purt thereof,
III excess of 800 dollars, so cts
Perpetual subject to stamp duty as
Conveyance"
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
Incorporated or iudorsed. five cents ad-
Meusurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding 900 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding 1000 bushels, 25 cts.
Mortgage, trust deed bill of sales, or
personal bond for the payment of money
exceeding 100 and not exceeding 800
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
al 500, or fractional part thereof, in cx-
cess of 500 so cts.
Pawner's Checks, cts
Passage Ticket from the United States to
any foreign port, costing not more than
35 dollars, so cts.
Costing more than 35, and not exceeding
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, in excess of so dollars, l 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscrminately
upon any of the matters things enumerated in
schedule b. except proprietary and playing card
stamps for which a special use has been provided.
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment of
the duty chargeable Oh Instruments.
1t is the duty OF the maker of an instrument 10
afX and cancel the stamp thereon. If he neglects
TO do so, the party for whom it is made, may
stamp it before it is used and if used after the
a SIS
cannot afterwards be cffcctually stamped. Any
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
lnent to appropriately stamp it, renders him lia-
Die to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
ncation petition, &c. in which case these, as the
original process, severally require stamps.
W1ts OF scira facias are subject to stamp duty
as original processes
The jurat of an affidavit taken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other officer duly
authorized to take aflidavits, is held to be GER
tihcate and is subject to stamp duty of five
CENTS except when taken in suits of legal proceed
ings.
Certificates of loan in which there shall appear
any printed or written evidence of an amount of
money to be paid on demand or at any time de-
signatrd, are subject to stamp duty as Promsory
Notes.
same duty as that imposed upon the original in
strument; that is to say for every sum OF FTc
hundred dollars, any fractional part thereof, of
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time of
its ASST gnment there must be affixed stamp or
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 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 any warrant of attor
ney accompanying bond or note, when such
bond or 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
stamp duty being the highest rates required for
such instruments, either of them. In such a
case note or 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.