The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1866-08-15

mcnt.
Passage Tickets To foreign port, if of
less price than $3.50 cents; from $50 TO
$50, 81; and for every additional $50, or
fractional part thereof In excess of 500,
81.
Puwnbrokcrs' Certificate. any a
mount, cents.
Playing Cards. For anu upon every
pack. not exceeding 52 cares in number,
irrespective Of price or value, 6 cents.
Policy of Insurance. On any live or lives,
where the amount insured does not exct cd
$1,000, 20 cents from $1,000, to $4,000,
90 cents exceeding $4,000, 81. Fire and
Marine Risks. Premium not exceeding
$40, 10 cents; premium not exceeding $50,
20 cents; exceeding $50, so cents; Acoiden.
tai insurance policies are exempt.
Power Of Auornoy.--To transfer stock.
bonds or script, TO collect dividends, interest
or rent, 25 cents to vote by proxy, excep
in charitable, religious, literary and cenc.n
ry societies, 10; to sell or lease real estate
and perform all other acts not specified
81 FOR any other purpose, so cents.
Probate Of Will, or Letter Of Admnistrn
tion.-Whcrc the estate does not exceed tn,
value of $4,000, ST. for every additional
$1,000, or fractional part in excess OF
81. 900, SO cents.
Protest of Notes, Draft, &o.-Or marine
protest. SC 25 cents.
Proprietary Medicines, Cosmetics, &c.
hot over rs cents, cent; not over so cents,
2 cents; not over rs cents, 3 conts not
over ST. 4 cents. For every additional 50
cents, or fractions thereof, 2 cents.
Receipt.-Receipt for the payment Of any
sum of money, or for the payment ofany
debt due exceeding $50, not being for salts.
faction of any mortgage of judgment, or
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stamp obligation in acknowledgement of its
fuliilmcnt, for onch receipt, cents. Pro-
vided, That when more than one signature
Is affixed TO the same paper, one or more
stamps may be affixed thereto representing
the whole amount of stamps required for
such signatures.
Sales-Or contracts for sale Of stocks,
bonds, foreign exchange. gold and silver
bullion nnd coin, promissory notes or other
securities, when made by brokers, banks
bankers who pay n special TAX, require
stamps equal TO l cent on every 500. II
there is-a fraction over 500. the same TO be
stamped NJ the full rate of $lJ0. When
made hy person, firm or corporation moi
paying special tax, for every 500 of value
. cents. memorandum of sale or con.
tract must be made by the seller to the buy
CT upon the sale or contract being made,
Wrt-Writ so cents. Where the amount
claimed in n writ, issued by court not of
record, is 500 or over, so cents. Upon
every confession of judgment, or cognovit,
Tor Sl00 or over Except in those cases where
the lax for the writ Ola commencement of
suit has been paid, 90 cents. Wri,s or 9th
er process on nppenis from Justices courts
or other court of inferior jurisdiction to
court of record, no cents. Warrant Of dis
trcss, when the amount Of rent claimed does
not exceed 500, 25 cents when exceeding
) 100, 80 cents.
EXEMPTION.
No stamp duty shall be required on pow
or ct attorney or any other paper rnlnting
to application for hounties, arreurages OF
pay, or pensions, or to the receipt thereof
from time to time; or upon tickets or con
tracts OF insurance when limited TO injury
TO persons while travelling nor on ccriifi
Gates Of the measurement, or weight of ami.
mails, wood, coal. or other articles, nor on
deposit notes to mutual insurance companies
for the insurance upon which policies sub
ject to stamp duties have been or are to be
issued; nor on any warrant ofattorney ac.
compnnying n bond or note, when such bond
or note shall have affixed thereto the stamp
or stamps dcnoting the duty required by
ana whenever any bond or note shall be
secured ny mortgage, but one stamp duty
shall be required to be placed on such pa
per; nor OH any certificate ofthe record of q
deed or othor instrument in writing, or of
the acknowledgment or proof thereof by
attestlng Witnesses; nor TO any Endorsement
OF negotiable instrument.
divided that the, stamp duty placed
thereon shall be highest ratio required for
said instruments, or either Of them.
Receipts by express companies for the
delivery Of any propcrt; for transportation
are exempt from stamp duty.
PENALTIES.
Penalty for making. signing or issuing
any instrument, document or paper Of any
KIND whatsoever. or shall accept, ncgotinte,
or pay, or cnnsc to- be excepted, negor int ed
or paid, any hill Of exchange draft OF or
der, or promissory note for the payment eff
money, without the samo being duly stamp
cd, denoting the duty hereby imposed there
on, %5O and the instrument shall be deem
cd invalid and Of no effect; or for counter
feiting stamps or dies 81 900, and imprison.
mont to hard labor not exceeding five years.
For making, signing issuing, accepting or
paying any bill Of exchange, draft. order,
or note without stamp, 5000. For selling
properly, cosmetFcs, matches, meels, fish,
fruit, sauces, jcllios, &C., without proper
stamps, $50. ila
OTHER PROVISIONS
Instruments are not to be recorded unless
properly stamped.
No instrument is invalid for the want Of
tho particular kinds Of stamps designated
provided alegal stamp Of equal amount
(except proprietary slanps) is duly affixed.
All official instruments, documents and
papers issued or used by officers Of the Uni
ted States government or by the officers Of
any Stale. county or Other municipal crrpo-
rncion, are exempt.
In case where an adhesive stamp shall he
used Ior deno'ing any duty imposed by this
not, tie person using or nffixing the same
Shall write thereon the initials Of his name
and date upon which The same shall be
attached or used. 80 that the same may not
again be used, under penalty Of 500.
Instruments heretofore issued without
stamps, not to be void where stamps are
subsequently affixed. Postage stamps cam
not be used as revenue stamps. ilg
Any person may present to tho commits
sioncri Of internal revenue any instrument,
and required his opinion whether the same
is ehhaar,ge.ablc with any duty and ftlle said