The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-07-04
stamps Abolished and Retained.

As it has been a disputed question whether
certain stamps were abolished by the revenue
law passed at the close of the last session of
Congress, the correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce has taken special pains
to ascertain just how far the abolition extends.
The new law in this respect reads as follows:
SECTION Sc. That on and after the first day
of October, 1872, all the taxes imposed by
stamps under and by virtue of schedule B, of
Section Ito, of the Act approved June ~,
1864, and the several Acts amendatory thereto,
be, and the same are hereby, repealed, except
ing only the tax of two cents on bank checks,
drafts or orders Provided, That where any
mortgage has been executed and recorded, or
may be executed and recorded before the frse
day of October, 1872, to secure the payment OF
bonds or obligations that may be made and
issued from time to time, and such mortgage
not being stamped, all such bonds or obliga-
tions so made and issued on or after said trst
day Of October, 1872, shall not be subject to
any stamp duty, but only such OF their bonds
or obligations as may have been made and Is
sued before the day last aforesaid: and prov'-
ded, 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
defunct stamp, may make application to any
collector of internal revenue, and that upon
such application such collector shall thereupon
afix 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 15S of the internal reVe-
nue. laws.
According to the internal revenue circular,
soon to be issued, this means abolition in re-
spect of the following instruments that now
ho interested
accept this careful epitome as final:
Contracts for insurance against accidental
injuries.
Afidavits.
All agreements or contracts or renewals s2i o.
age, or for any other purpose.
Assignments, of lease, mortgage, policy OF
Insurance. or anything else.
Bills of exchange, foreign, inland, letters OF
credit, or anything of that kind now taxed by
stamps.
Bills of lading and receipts, in the United
States or for anywhere else.
Bills of sale of any kind.
Bonds of indemnifcation of any kind.
Bond of administrator or guardian, or any
thing that has the name of bond in it, andnow
taxed by stamp.
Brokers' notes.
Certificates of measurement of anything.
Certificates of stock, profit, damage, deposit,
or any other kind of certificate now taxed by
stamp.
Charter or its renewal, or charter party of
any kind.
All contracts or agreements.
Conveyance, any part of the work OF con-
veying
Endorsement of any negotiable or not nego-
table instrument. .,
Entry for consumption, warehousing or with
drawal.
Gaugers' returns.
Insurance policies, contracts, tickets renew
ais. &c. (lifc. marine, inland and fire.
Lease-all through the lease list is abolished.
T,eral documents-Writ or other process,
confession of judgment, cognovit, appeals,
warrants. &C.. letters of administration, testa-
mentary, &C.
Manifests at custom house, or anywhere else,
or for any 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 for anything
Protest Of any kind.
Quit claim deed.
Receipt-now generally exempt, and if in
cluded Ill present law Ill any easo, VIA w
hereafter exempt.
Sheriffs' returns.
Trust deed.
Warehouse receipt
Warrant Of attorney.
Weighers return, of any kind.
The tax of two cents on checks, drafts and
orders. is all of schedule B that is retained.
And this is the detail of the stamp aboll-
tions in the law of June 6, 1872.
MoNsrRous.-An attempt was made, by
some party disguised, to force open the house
of an old lady in the neighborhood Of Leba,
non Church, on last Saturday night. The old
lady, and three daughters were sleeping near
an open window. The unknown party attemp-
ted to enter the window, was prevented by one