The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-02
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.
Exceeding ten dollars, and not exceeding
fifty, so cts.
Insurance, Life, when the amount insured
does not exceed 1, 900 dollars, 25 cts.
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding {, 900 dollars, 81 90
Lease lease of lands tenements
where the rents does not exceed 800 per
annum, so cts
Exceeding 800 dollars, for each addition,
in excess of 300 dollars, so cts
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty
"cOnVeyance.h
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
incorporated or indorsed five cents ad-
ditional.
Measurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding 1000 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding i, 600 bushels, 25 cts.
Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales,
personal bond for the payment of money
exceeding 100 and not exceeding 5OO
dollars, SO cts.
Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition
al 800, or fractional part thereof, in ex-
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
| so. | 90
, For every additional fifty or fractional
| part thereof, in excess of so dollars, 90
GENERAL REMARKS
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminately
upon any of the matters or things enumerated i'll
: 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.
II Is the duty of the maker of an instrument to
affiX and cancel the stamp thereon. 1.-The neglects
to do so the party for whom it is made, may
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oOth OF July, 1864, and used without stamp, 1t
cannot afterwards be effectualy stamped. Any
failure upon the part of the maker of an nstru- r..
ment to appropriately stamp it, renders him liza
Die to a penalty of two hundred dollars.
! Suits are commenced in many States by other
| process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
ncatlon, petition, &c, in which case these, as the
original process, severaly require stamps.
Writs of scira facias are subject to stamp duty
| The jurat of an affidavit taken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other Officer duly
authorized to take afhdayits, is held to be GER
| tifcatc, 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 at any time de-
signat' d, are subject to stamp duty as Promisory
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
| .iio SeCuTcu ny dL tlInc VI
| its assignment there must be affixed stamp or
| stamps denoting a 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 conveyances of real estate, the law provides
| that the stamp affixed must answer to 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 OIL
! stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever
| any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one
stamp dutv being the highest rates REQUIRED for
| such instruments, or either of them. In such a
| case note memorandum of the value de-
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement of
the instrument which is not stamped.