The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-27
NO. 95.

Where such packet, box, bottle, pot,
phial or other enclosure, with its
contents, shall exceed the retail
price or value of twenty-five cents,
and shall not exceed the retail
price or value of fifty cents, two
cents, -
Where such packet, box, bottle, pot,
phial, or other enclosure, with its
contents, shall exceed the retail
price or value of fifty cents, and
shall not exceed the retail price
or value of seventy-6ve cents,
three cents,
Where such packet, box bottle, pot,
phial, or other enclosure, with its
contents, shall exceed the retail
price or value of fseventy-five cents,
and shall not exceed the retail
price or value of one dollars, four
cents,
Where such packet, box, bottle. pot,
phial, or other enclosure, with its
contents, shall exceed the retail
price or value of one dollar, for
each and every fifty cents or frac-
tional part thereof over and above
the one dollar, as before mention
ed, as additional two cents, z
Playing cards.-For and upon every
pack of whatever number, when
ceed eighteen cents, one cent,
Over eighteen cents and not exceed
ing twenty-five cents per pack,
two cents,
Over twenty-five and not exceeding
thirty cents per pack, thrre cents,
Over thirty and not exceeding
thirty-six cents per pack, four
cents, 4
Over thirty-six cents per pack, FIVE
cents,
LEGACIES AND DISTRIBUTIVE
SHARES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
Sec. III And be it further enacted, That
any person or persons having in charge OF
trust, as administrators executors, or trus
tees of any legacies or dist1ibutive shares
arising from personal property, of any kind
whatsoever, where the whole amount of such
personal property, as aforesaid, shall exceed
the sum of one thousand dollars in actua
value, passing from any person who may die
after the passage of this act possessed of suci
property, either by will or by the intestate
laws aof any State or Territory, or any part
of such property or interest therein, tran
sferred by deed, grant, bargain, sale, or gift
made or intended to take effect in possession
or enjoyment after the death of the grantol
or bargainor, to any person or persons, or tc
any body or bodies polite or corporate, III
trust or otherwise, shall be, and hereby are
made subject to duty or tax, to be paid tC
the United States, as follows, that is to
say:
First. Where the person or persons entitled
to any beneficial interest in such property
shall be the lineal issue or ineal ancestor
brother or sister, to the person who dieo
possessed of such property, as aforesaid, Al
and after the rate Of seventy-fve cents fol
each and every hundred dollars of the
IL g -. ,,o1,
perty.
Second Where the person or persons en-
titled to any beneficial interest in such pro
perty shall be descendant of a brother o.
sister of the person who died possessed, D!
aforesaid, at and after the rate of one dollar
and fifty cents for each and every hun
dred dollars of the clear value of such in
terest
Third. Where the person or persons en-
titled to any beneficial interest in such pro
perty shall be brother or sister of the fa
ther or mother, or descendant of a brother
or sister of the father of the person who died
possessed, as aforesaid, at and after the rate
of three dollars for each and every hun.
dred dollars of the clear value of such In
terest. z..
Fourth. Where the person or persons en-
titled to any beneficial interest in such pro-
perty shall be a brother or sister of the grand.
father or grandmother, or a descendant OF
the brother or sister of the grandfather ol
grandmother or descendant of the brother
or sisser of the grandfather or grandmother
of the person who died possessed, as afore-
said, at and after the rate of four dollars fol
each in every hundred dollars of the clear
value of such interest.
Fifth. Where the person or persons en-
titled to any beneficial interest in such pro
perty shall be in any other degree of cola
teral consanguinity than is hereinbefore stat
ed, or shall be a stranger in blood to the
person who died possessed, as aforesaid, OF
shall be body polite or corporate, at and
and after the rate of five dollars for each and
every hundred dollars of the clear value OF
such interest Provided, That all legacies or
property passing by will, or by the laws Of
any State or Territory, to husband or wife
of the person who died possessed, as afore-
said, shall be exempt from tax or duty.
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