Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-07-06

By CoNGREss-AN 1MPoRTAST STATEMENT.
For the benefit of our readers, we give
here a list of the stamp taxes that are to be
abolished by the Tax and Tariff bill, which
goes into effect on the 1st Of October next
Contracts for insurance against accident
al injuries.
Atlidavits.
All agreements or contracts, or renewals
of the same.
Appraisement of value or damage, or for
any other purpose.
Assignments of a lease. mortgage, policy
Of insurance, or anything else.
Bills of exchange, foreign, inland, letters
of credit, or anything of that kind taxed
by stamps.
Bills of la6ing and receipts in the United
States or for anywhere else.
Bills Of sale Of any kind.
Bond-administrator or guardian, or any
thing that has the name of bond in it, and
now taxed by stamp.
Brokers notes.
Certificates of measurement of anything.
Certificates of stock, profits, damage, de-
post, or any other kind of certificate now
taxed by stamp.
Charter, or its renewal, or q charter
party of any kind.
All contracts or agreements.
Conveyance, any part Of the work of con-
veying.
Entry for consumption, warehousing, or
withdrawal.
Gaugers' returns.
Endorsement of any negotiable or not
negotiable instrument.
Insurance policies, contracts, tickets, re-
ncwals, etc., life, marine, inland and fire.
Lease. All through the lease list is
abolished.
Legal documents. Writ or other pro-
cess, confession of Judgment, cognovit, ap-
peals, warrants, etc, letters OF administra-
ton. tCstamcEtary, etc.
Maniests at Custom House, or anywhere
else, or for any other purpose.
Mortgage of any kind.
Passage ticket, to any place in the world.
Pawners' checks.
Power of attorney for any purpose.
Probate of will, of any kind.
Promissory note of anything.
Protest of any kind.
Quit claim deed.
Receipt Now generally exempt, and if
included in present law in any case, will be
hereafter exempt.
Sheritl>s return.
Trust deed.
Warehouse receipt.
Warrant of attorney.
Wcigher's return, of any character
RETAINED.
The tax of . cents on checks, drafts, and
orders is all of schedule B that is retained.
And this is the detail Of the stamp aSoli-
ton III the law of June +, 1872.
Section thirty-siXth of the new law, and
this section especially pertains to stamp
duties, reads as follows:
That on and after the first day of Octo-
Der, 1872, all the taxes imposed by stamps
under, and by virtue of, Schedule b, of
section 40 Of the act approved June 30,
1864, and the several acts amendatory
thereof be and the sama are hereby repeal
ed, excepting only the tax of two cents on
bank checks, drafts, or orders Provided
That where any mortgage has been eXecu-
/ ted and recorded, or may be executed and
! recorded, before the first day of October,
| y. ID. 1872, TO secure the payment of bonds
or obligations that may be made and is
/ sued from time to time, and such mortgage
not being stamped, all such bonds or obli-
/ cations 50 made and issued on or after said
/ first day of October, \. ID. 1872, shall not
/ he subject to any stamp duty, but only
such of their bonds or obligations rs may
/ have been made and issued before the day
/ last aforesaid: Aud provided further,
! That, in the meantime, the holder of any
/ instrument of writing of whatever kind and
description which has been made or issued
! without being duly stamped, or with a de-
funct stamp, may make application to any
collector of internal revenue, and that upon
/ such application such collector shall there
upon ailiN the stamp provided by such
! holder upon such instrument of writing as
/ required by law to be put upon the same,
and subject to the provisions of section l5S
| of the Internal Revenue laws.