The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-12
WHAT MUST BE STAMPED.

For the benefit of our readers, we
| give here list of the stamp taxes
that are to be abolished by the new
tax and tariff bill, which goes into
effect on the 1st of October next
Contracts for insurance against
accidental injuries.
Affidavits.
All agreement of contracts or re-
newals of the same.
Appraisements of value or dam
age, or for any other purpose.
Assignments of a lease, mort
gage, policy of insurance, or any
thing else.
Bills of exchange, foreign or in
land letters of credit, or anything
of that kind now taxed by stamp.
Bills of lading and receipts in the
United States, or for anywhere else.
Bills of sale of any kind.
Bonds of indemnification of any
kind.
Bond of administrators or guar
dian, or anything that has the name
of bond in it, and now taxed By
stamp. -
Brokers' notes.
Certificate of measurement of
anything.
Certificates of stock, profits, dam
age, deposit, or any other certificate
now taxed by stamp.
Charter, or its renewal, or CHAR
| ter-party of any kind.
All contracts of agreements.
Conveyance, any part of the work
| of conveying.
Entry for consumption, ware
housing, or withdrawal.
Guase rs' returns.
| Endorsements of any negotiable
or not negotiable instrument.
Insurance policies, contracts, tick
cts, renewals, etc., Oife, marine, in
land and fire.)
Lease. All through the lease list
is abolished.
Legal documents. Writ or other
process, confession of Judgment,
coguovit, appeals, warrants, ETC.,
letters of administration, testimen-
tary, etc.
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 an 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 included in present law, in
any case will be hereafter exempt.
Sheriffs' returns.
Trust deed.
Warehouse receipt.
Warrant of attorney.
Weigher's return, of any charac-
ter.
RETAINED.
The tax of two cents on checks
drafts and orders, is all Of schedule
3 that is retained.
And this is the detail of the stamI
additions in the law of June 6
1872.
Section thirty-six of the new law
and this section especially, pertains
to stamp duties, reads as follows:
sThat on and after the first day
of October, 1872, all the taxes i'm
posed by stamps under and by vlr
tue of Schedule B, of section 40 o
the act approved June 30, 1864, and
: the several acts amendatory thereof
be and the same are hereby repeal
; ed, excepting only the tax of TIVE
: cents on bank checks, drafts or or
q ders: Provided, that where an!
mortgage has been executed ant
, recorded before the first day o
October, 1872, to secure the pay
ment of bonds or obligations tina
: may be issued from time to time
I and such mortgage not being stamp
2 ed, all such bonds and obligation
, SO issued before the day last afore
: said: And provided further, Thai
! in the meantime, the holder of an.
instrument of writing of whateve
kind and description which ha
been made or issued without beiDI
duly stamped, or with a defunc
stamp, may make application to an
/ collector Of internal rcveuue, an
that upon such application such col
: lector shall thereuPon ,afix To
stamp provided by such holder uI
on such instrument of writing IS
required by law to be put upon th
same, and subject TO the provision
E of section 158 of the Internal Rev
: enue law"
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