The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-19

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
Exceeding ten dollars, and not exceeding
fifty, so cts
Insurance. Life, when the amount insured
does not exceed 900 dollars, 25 cts
Exceeding 1000 and not exceeding :, 900
dollars, so cts
Exceeding 5000 dollars, 81 90
Lease or lease of lands or tenements
where the rents does not exceed 500 per
annum, so cts.
Exceeding 300 dollars, for each addition
al 200 dollars, fractional part thereof
in excess of 800 dollars, so cts.
'conveyance."
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
incorporated or indorsed, five cents ad-
ditional.
Measurers Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding 600 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 500
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
al 500, 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
35 dollars, so cts.
Costing more than 35, and not exceeding
so, 1 90
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof, in excess of so dollars 100
GENERAL. REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used ndiScriminately
upon any of the matters or things enumerated in
schedule B, except proprietary and playing card
stnmps, 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 Ifhe neglects
to do so, the party for whom it is made, may
stamp it before it is used; and if used after the
30th OF July 1864, and used without a stamp, it
cannot afterwards be effectually stamped Any
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
ment to appropriately stamp it, renders him liza
bic to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
lication, petition, &C., in which these, the
original process, severaly require stamps.
Writs of scira flcias subject to stamp duty
original processes.
The iurat of an atfidavitdtaken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, other officer duly
authorized to take tffidavits is held to be a GER
| tifcate, and is subject to a 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-
| Notes
The assignment of a mortgage is subject to the
same duty as that imposed upon the original in.
| 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 OF
| 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 on 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 on.
stamp duty is required such papers, sucl
| stamp duty being the highest rates required fol
| such instruments, either of them. In such
| case n note memorandum of the value or dc
| nomination of the stamp affixed should be mad.
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement o
! the instrument which is not stamped.