The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-07
rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol

lars, % cts,
When the amount exceeds 100 dollars, 80 cts.
i Insurance. Marine, Inland and Fire
! Where the consideration paid for the
Insurance. i'll 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
docs not exceed l COO dollars, 25 cts.
Exceeding 900 and not exceeding 5000
dollars, SO cts.
Exceeding > 200 dollars, 81 90
Lease or lease of lands tcnements
annun, so cts.
Exceeding 300 dollars, for each addition
in excess of 300 dollars, so cts
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty rs a
"cOnVeyancc."
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent
Incorporated or indorsed. five cents adj
ditionaI.
Measurers' Return, iffor quantity not ex-
ceeding /, 900 bushels, 10 cts
Exceeding 200 bushels, 2o cts
Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales, or
personal bond for the payment ofm0ney
exceeding 100 and not exceeding 5OO
dollars 80 cts
Exceeding 800 dollars for every addition
al 800 or fractional part thereof in ex-
cess of 800, so cts.
Pawncr'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
80, 90
VI every auultlOnil HlIN OF lTiictlOlldl
part thereof in excess OF so dollars, %
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminately
upon amy OF the matters or things enumerated in
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.
1t is tic duty of the maker of an instrument to
a!hX and cancel the stamp thereon If he ncglectS
to do so, the party for whom it is made, may
stamp it before it is used and if used after the
3otil of July, 1864, and used without Il stamp, it
cannot afterwards be eficctualiy stamped. Any
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
mcnt TO appropriately stamp it, renders him liza
be to Il penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced i'll many States by other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
lca,on petition, &c, in which case these, 's the
original process, scveraily require stamps.
Writs OF scira facias are subject TO stamp duty
us original processes.
The iurat OF an affidavit. aiken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public or other officer duly
authorized 10 take affdavits, is held to be Ger
tliicatc, 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
any printed or written evidence Of an amount Of
money TO be paid demand or at any time de-
Slssnat' d. are subject to stamp duty as Promisory
Notes.
same duty ;s that imposed upon the original in
strumcnt; that is to say for every sum of five
hundred dollars or any fractional part thereof, of
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time OF
lis assignment there must be affixed stamp or
stamps, dcnoting Il duty of five cents.
When two or more persons join in the execution
of an instrument, the stamps to which this instru-
mcnt is liable under the law, may be affixed and
cancelled by one of the parties.
In conrcvances of real estate, the law provides
that the stamp affixed must answer to the value
of the estate OF interest conveyed.
No stamp is required any warrant of attor-
ncy accompanying bond note, when such
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp Oh
stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever
amy bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one
stamp duty is required such papers, such
stamp duty being the highest rates required for
S:ich Instruments, 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.