The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-05
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 1000 dollars, 25 cts.
dollars, so cts.
Exceeding 5, 900 dollars, 81 90
Lease or lease of lands tcnemcnts
annum, so cts
Exceeding 800 dollars for each addition
in excess of 300 dollars, so cts.
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty
conveyance"
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
Incorporated or indorsed. five cents ad-
Measurers Return, flor quantity not ex-
ceeding 1,O00 bushels, 10 cts.
Exceeding 900 bushels, % cts.
Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales,
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, cts
Passage Ticket from the United States to
any foreign port, costing not more than
30 dollars, so cts.
Costing more than 35 and not exceeding
For every additional fifty or fractional
part thereof in excess of 80 dollars, w
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiScrimlnately
upon any of the matters or things enumerated in
schedule b, except proprietary and playing card
stamps tor 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
afflX and cancel the stamp thereon. If he negccts
10 DO SO, the party for whom it Is made, may
stamp it before it is used; and if used after the
5oth of July, 1864, and used without 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
Die TO penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
licaton petition, &c, in which these, the
original process, severally require stamps.
Wrlts of scira facias subject to stamp duty
as original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit taken before Justice
OF the Peace, Notary Public, other Officer duly
authorized to take af1idavits, is held to be GER
ticatc, 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
my printed or written evidence of an amount OF
money TO be paid on demand or at any time de-
lgnat' d, are subject to stamp duty as Promisory
Notes.
The assignment of mortgage is subject to the
'ame duty as that imposed upon the original in
;trument; that is to say for every sum Of five
hundred dollars, or any fractional part thereof OF
he amount secured by the mortgage, at time OF
is assignment there must be affixed stamp or
tamps, dcnoting duty of five cents.
w hen two or more persons join in the execution
)f an Instrument, the stamps to which this nstru-
nent is liable under the law, may be affixed and
cancelled by one of the parties
In convcyanceS of real estate, the law provides
hat the stamp affixed must answer to the value
If the estate on interest conveyed.
No stamp is required on any warrant of attor-
Iey accompanying Il bond or note, when such
oond or-nOte has affixed thereto the stamp
stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever
my bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one
tamp duty is required such papers, such
tamp duty being the highest rates required for
uch instruments, either of them. In such a
Ipon the margin in the acknowledgement of
he instrument which is not stamped.