The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-12

any sum of money exceeding $40,
drawn upon any person or other than
bank, banker or trust company, at sight
or on demand, 2 cts.
Contract TSee Agreement Brokers,] 10 cts.
Conveyance deed, instrument of writing,
whereby lands, tenements, or other
reality sold shall be conveyed, the
tual value which does not exceed $780, so cts
Exceeding $780, and not exceeding 81 900, 81 90
For every additional five hundred dollars,
or fractional part thereof, in excess of
one thousand dollars, so cts.
Entry of any goods, wares or merchandise
at any custom house, not exceeding one
hundred dollars in value, 25 cts
Exceeding one hundred dollars and not
exceeding five hundred dollars in value, so cts
Exceeding five hundred dollars in value, 81 90
For the withdrawal of any goods or mer-
chandize from bonded warehouse, so cts
Guager's return if for quantity not eX-
ceeding five hundred gal. gross, 10 cts
Exceeding 500 gallons, 25 cts.
Power of Attorney to sell or transfer
stock, or collect dividends thereon, 25 cts.
To vote at an election if an incorporated
company, 10 cts
To receive or collect rents, 25 cts.
To sell, or convey, or rent, or lease real
estate, 81 90
For any other purpose, SO cts.
Probate of will or letters of administra-
tion, where the value of both real and
personal estate does not exceed s., 600, 81 90
For every additional $4,000 or fractional
part thereof in excess of s., 900, so cts.
Bonds of executor, administrators, guar
dams and trustees, are each subjected
to stamp duty of 81 90
Protest upon bill note, check or draft 25 cts.
Promisory Note (See Bills of Exchange,
inland,) Renewal of, subject to
duty an original note.
Receipt for the payment of any sum of
money, or debt due, exceeding twenty
dollars, for the delivery of any pro
perty, 2 cts.
Trust Deed made to secure debt to be
stamped as mortgage conveying estate
to uses, to be stamped as conveyance.
Warehouse Receipt for any goods, wares
for, deposited or stored i'll any public
or private warehouse not exceeding
five hundred dollars in value, 10 cts.
Exceeding five hundred and not exceed
ing one thousand dollars, 20 cts.
Exceeding 1000 dollars for every addi-
tiOnal 1 900 dollars or fractional part
thereof, in excess of 81 900, 10 cts.
For any goods, etc, not otherwise provi-
ded for, stored or deposited in any public
or private warehouse or yard 25 cts.
Writs or Legal Documents, writ or other
legal process, by which any suit is COM
menced in any court of record, either
of law or equity, so cts.
Writ or original process issued by court
not of record, where the amount claim
ed is 100 dollars or over, so cts.
Upon every confession of judgment
cognoVit for 100 dollars or over, except
in cases where the tax for a writ has
been paid, so cts.
Writ or other process, appeals from jus
tices courts, or other courts of inferior
jurisdiction, 10 a court of record, 80 cts.
Warrants of distress, when the amount of
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol
lars, % 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, 50 cts
Insurance. Life when the amount insured
does not exceed 1000 dollars, 25 els.
dollars, so cts
Exceeding 3 900 dollars, 81 90
Lease lease OF lands Or tenements
annum, so cts.
Exceeding 800 dollars, for each addition
al 200 dollars, or fractional part thereof,
in excess of 300 dollars, so cts.
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty as
conveyance
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
Incorporated or indorsed, five cents ad-
ditional.
Measurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
cecding ], 900 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding 200 bushels, % 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 ex-
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
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof in excess of 80 dollars, l 90
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminatel1
upon any of the matters or things enumerated il
schedule B, except proprietary and playing care
stamps, for which special use has been provided
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment o
the duty chargeable on instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker of an instrument tc
cancel the stamp thereon.
to do so, the party for whom it is made, may
stamp it before it is used; and if used after Tho
Both of July, 1864, and used without a stamp, il
cannot afterwards be effcctualy stamped. Any
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru
mcnt to appropriately stamp it, renders him liza
bic to penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits commenced in many States by Other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
lication, petition, &c, in which these, tho
original process, severally require stamps.
Writs 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 office duly
authorized to take affdavitS, is held to be Ger
tificate, 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 Promlsory
Notes.
The assignment of 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 a 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 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 or
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
such instruments, or either of them. In such a
case note or memorandum of the value or de-
of the stamp affixed should be made
the instrument which iS not stamped.
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