Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-10
FIRING q TORPEDO AT RIGHT ANGLE.

Section IS provides for a tax stamp
On telegraph messages, out exempts
messages of officers and employees of
the government on official business and
also messages Of telegraph and railroad
companies over their own lines.
Incorporated medicines or those
put up and sold at retail on prescrip-
tons are not included in the taxable
articles, leaving it to apply particular
ly to proprietary articles.
Schedule A-Stamp taxes-Bonds, de-
bentures or certificates Of Indebtedness
by any association, company or cor
poration, on each hundred dollars of
face value or fraction thereof five
cents, and on each original issue, whe-
Their on organization or reorganization
of certificates of stock by any such as
ISOLATION, company or corporation, on
each 500 of face value or fraction
thereof, five cents, and on all soles or
agreements to sell, or memorandum of
sales, or deliveries or transfers of
shares or certificates of stock on each
800 of face value or fraction, two
cents.
Upon each sale or agreement to sell,
any products or merchandise at any
exchange or board of trade, or other
similar place, either for present or fu-
ture delivery, for each 500 in value of
said sale or agreement of sale or agree
ment to sell, one cent, and for each ad-
ditional 800 or fractional part thereof
in excess of 500, one cent
Bank check, draft or certificate of
deposit not drawing interest, or order
for the payment of any sum of money
drawn upon or issued by any bank,
trust company or any person or per-
sons, companies or corporations, 2
cents
Bills of exchange (inland) draft,
certificate of deposit drawing interest
or order for the payment of any sum
of money, otherwise than at sight or
on demand or any promissory note ex-
cept bank notes issued for circulation
and for each renewal of the same for a
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars,
two cents, and for each additional one
hundred dollars or fractional part there
Of, in excess Of S100, cents.
Bills of exchange (foreign) or letter
of credit, if drawn singly for a sum
not exceeding $780, cents, and for
each 500 or fractional part thereof, in
excess of 500, cents. Bills of lading,
receipt (other than charter party for
any goods or merchandise to be export
ed to any foreign port or place, 10
cents.
It is made the duty of every railroad or
steamboat company, carrier express COM
pany, or corporation or person whose oc-
cupation is to act as such, to issue to the
shipper or consignee a bill of lading,
manifest or other evidence of receipt and
forwarding for each shipment received,
whether in bulk or In boxes, bales, pack
ages bundles or not so inclosed or in
cluded: and there is to be attached and
cancelled to each of said bills of lading,
etc. a stamp of the value of lc. Pro-
vided. that but one bill of lading shall be
required on bundles or packages of news
I papers when inclosed in one general
| bundle at the time OF shipment.
! A tax OF one cent is imposed for every
| telephone message for which over l5c is
i-t,n a1a 10
| cent.
| Indemnifyng bonds, 30 cents.
| Certificate of profits of any association
and on all transfers thereof, on each hun
dred dollars of face value, two cents.
| Conveyance or Deed for Real Estate in
| which the consideration exceeds 500 and
| does not exceed 500. 80 cents, and for
| each additional $780, 30 cents.
| Bonds-The Secretary Of the Treasury