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Stamp duties.

Duty.
Dolls. cts.

dollars, for every additional one thousand dollars or fractional part thereof in excess of one thousand dollars, fifty cents

50
Bond for the due execution or performance of the duties of any office, one dollar
1  00
Bond of any description, other than such as may be required in legal proceedings, or used in connection with mortgage deeds, and not otherwise charged in this schedule, twenty-five cents
25
Certificate of stock in any incorporated company, twenty-five cents
25
Certificate of profits, or any certificate or memorandum showing an interest in the property or accumulations of any incorporated company, if for a sum not less than ten dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars, ten cents
10
Exceeding fifty dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, twenty-five cents
25
Exceeding one thousand dollars, for every additional one thousand dollars, or fractional part thereof, twenty-five cents
25
Certificate. — Any certificate of damage, or otherwise, and all other certificates or documents issued by any port warden, marine surveyor, or other person acting as such, twenty-five cents
25
Certificate of deposit of any sum of money in any bank or trust company, or with any banker or person acting as such—
If for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, two cents
2
For a sum exceeding one hundred dollars, five cents
5
Certificate of any other description than those specified, five cents
5
Charter-party. — Contract or agreement for the charter of any ship or vessel, or steamer, or any letter, memorandum, or other writing between the captain, master, or owner, or person acting as agent of any ship or vessel, or steamer, and any other person or persons for, or relating, to the charter of such ship or vessel, or steamer, or any renewal or transfer thereof, if the registered tonnage of such ship or vessel, or steamer, does not exceed one hundred and fifty tons, one dollar
1  00
Exceeding one hundred and fifty tons, and not exceeding three hundred tons, three dollars
3  00
Exceeding three hundred tons, and not exceeding six hundred tons, five dollars
5  00
Exceeding six hundred tons, ten dollars
10  00
Contract. — Broker's note, or memorandum of sale of any goods or merchandise, stocks, bonds, exchange, notes of hand, real estate, or property of any kind or description issued by brokers or persons acting as such, for each note or memorandum of sale, ten cents
10
Conveyance. — Deed, instrument, or writing, whereby any lands, tenements, or other realty sold shall be granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed to, or vested in, the purchaser or purchasers, or any other person or persons by his, her, or their direction, when the consideration or value does not exceed five hundred dollars, fifty cents
50
When the consideration exceeds five hundred dollars, and does not exceed one thousand dollars, one dollar
1  00
And for every additional five hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof, in excess of one thousand dollars, fifty cents
50
Entry of any goods, wares, or merchandise at any custom-house, either for consumption or warehousing, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, twenty-five cents
25
Exceeding one hundred dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, fifty cents
50
Exceeding five hundred dollars in value, one dollar
1  00
Entry for the withdrawal of any goods or merchandise from bonded warehouse, fifty cents
50
Gaugers' returns, if for a quantity not exceeding five hundred gallons gross, ten cents
10
Exceeding five hundred gallons gross, twenty-five cents
25
Insurance, (life.) — Policy of insurance, or other instrument, by whatever name the same shall be called, whereby any insurance shall be made upon any life or lives—
When the amount insured shall not exceed one thousand dollars, twenty-five cents
25
Exceeding one thousand dollars and not exceeding five thousand dollars, fifty cents
50
Exceeding five thousand dollars, one dollar
1  00
Insurance, (marine, inland, and fire.) — Each policy of insurance or other instrument, by whatever name the same shall be called, by which insurance shall be made or renewed upon property of any description, whether against perils by the sea or by fire, or other peril