The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-27
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received In evidence in all courts of law or
equity, Notwithstanding any objections made
to the same, as being chargeable with stamp
duty, and not stamped to denote the same.
Sec. 104. And be it further enacted, That
on and after the date on which this act shall
take effect, no telegraph company or its agent
or employee shall receive from any person, or
transmit to any person, any despatch or mes
sage without an adhesive stamp denoting the
duty imposed by this act being affixed to a
copy thereof, or having the same stampted
thereupon, and in default thereof snail incur
a penalty of ten dollars: Provided, That
only one stamp shall be required, whether sent
through one or more companies.
Sec, 105. And be it further enacted, That
on and after the date on which this act shall
take effect, no express company or its agent
or employee shall receive for transportation
from any person any bale, bundle, box, article,
or package OF any description, without either
delivering to the consignor thereof printed
receipt, having stamped or affixed thereon a
stamp denoting the duty imposed by this
act, or without affixing thereto an adhesive
stamp or stamps denoting such duty, and in
default thereof shall incur penalty of ten
dollars Provided, That but one stamped
receipt or stamp shall be required for each
shipment from one party to another party at
the same time whether such shipment con-
sists of one or more packages: And provid-
ed, also, That no stamped receipts or stamp
shall be required for any bale, bundle, box,
article, or package transported for the gov
ernment, nor for such bales, bundles, boxes,
or packages as are transported by such COM
panies without charge thereon.
Sec. 106. And be it further enacted, That
all the provisions of this act relating to dies,
stamps, adhesive stamps, and stamp duties,
shall extend to and include Except where
manifestly inapplicable) ali the articles or
objects enumerated in schedule G, subject to
stamp duties, and apply to the provisions in
relation thereto.
Sec. 1O7 And be it further enacted, That
on and after the first day of August, eighteen
hundred and siXty-two, no person or persons,
firms, companies, or corporations, shall make,
prepare. and sell, or remove for consumption
or sale, drugs, medicines, preparations. COM
positions, articles, or things, including per-
fumery, cosmetics, and playing cards, upon
which duty is imposed by this act, as
enumerated and mentioned in schedule G.
without affiXing thereto an adhesive stamp
or label denoting the duty before mentioned
and in default thereof shall incur penalty
of ten dollars: Provided, That nothing in
this act contained shall apply to any uncom-
pounded medicinal drug or chemical, nor to
any medicine compounded according to the
United States or other national pharmaco-
peia, nor of which the full and proper for
mula is published in either of 1he dispense
use among physicians and apothecaries, in
Guiding homeopathic and eclectic, or in any
pharmaceutical journal now used by any in
corporated college of pharmacy, and not sold
or offered for sale, or advertised under any
other name, form, guise, than that under
which they may be severally denominated
and laid down in said pharmacop9ias, dis
pensatories, textbooks, or journals, as afore
said, to medicines sold to or for the
of any person. which may be mixed and COM
pounded specially for said persons, according
to the written recipe or prescription of any
physician or surgeon.
Sec. 1OS And be it further enacted That
every manufacturer or maker of any of the
articles for sale mentioned in schedule c,
after the same shall have been so made, and
the particulars hereinbefore required as to
stamps have been complied with, who shall
take off remove, or detach. or cause or per-
nit, or suffer to be taken off, or removed or
detached, any stamp, or who shall use any
stamp, or any wrapper or cover to which any
stamp is affixed, to cover any other article or
commodity than that originally contained in
such wrapper or cover, with such stamp when
first used. with the intent to evade the stamp
duties, shall for every such article, respec
tivelv in respect of which any such offence
shall be committed, be subject to penalty
of fifty dollars, to be recoved, together with
the costs thereupon ACQUIRING, and every such
article or commodity as aforesaid shall also
be forfeited.
Sec. 100. And be it further enacted, That
every maker or manufacturer of any of the
articles or commodities mentioned in schedule
G., as aforesaid, who shall sell, send out, re-
move, or deliver any article or commodity,
manufactured as aforesaid. before the duty
thereon shall have been fully paid, by affix
ing thereon the proper stamp, as in this act
provided, or who shall hide or conceal, or
cause to be hidden or concealed, or who shall
remove or convey away, or deposit, or cause
to be removed or conveyed away from or de-
posted in any place, any such article or
commodity, to evade the duty chargeable
thereon or any part thereof, shall be subject
to a penalty of one hundred dollars, together
with the forfeiture of any such article or COM
modify Provided, That medicines, prepara-
tions, compositions, perfumery, and cos
metics upon which stamp duties are required
by this act, may, when intended for exporta-
ton, be manufactured and sold, removed
without having stamps affixed thereto, and
without being charged with duty, as afore-
said and every manufacturer maker of
any article, as aforesaid, intended for expor-
tation, shall give such bonds and be subject
to such rules and regulations to protect the
revenue against fraud as may be from time
to time pescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
DEC. llU. ana De IL IurCner enacted, 1laC
every manufacturer or maker of any of the
articles or commodities, aforesaid, or his
chief workman, agent, or superintendent,
shall at the end of each and every month
make and sign declaration in writing that
no such article or commodity, as aforesaid, |
has, during such preceding month, or time
when the last declaration was made, been re-
moved, carried, or sent or caused, or suffered,
or known to have been removed carried, or
sent from the premises of such manufacturer
or maker, other than such as have been duly |
taken account of and charged with the stamp |
duty, on pain of such manufacturer or maker
for every refusal or neglect to make
such declaration one hundred dollars and |
if any such manufacturer or maker, or his
chief workman, agent, or superintendent, |
shall make any false or untrue declaration,
such manufacturer or maker, or chief work |
man, agent, or superintendent, making the
same, shall forfeit five hundred dollars.
SCHEDULE B.
STAMP DUTIES.