| Duty. Dolls. cts. | |
Exceeding in value five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, twenty cents
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20 |
Exceeding in value one thousand dollars, for every additional one thousand dollars, ten cents
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10 |
Warehouse receipt for any goods, merchandise, or property of any kind, not otherwise provided for, held on storage in any public or private warehouse or yard, twenty-five cents
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25 |
Weighers' returns, if for a weight not exceeding five thousand pounds, ten cents
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10 |
Exceeding five thousand pounds, twenty-five cents
|
25 |
| Legal Documents: | |
Writ, or other original process by which any suit is commenced in any court of record, either of law or equity, fifty cents
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50 |
Where the amount claimed in a writ, issued by a court not of record, is one hundred dollars or over, fifty cents
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50 |
Upon every confession of judgment, or cognovit, for one hundred dollars or over, (except in those cases where the tax for the writ of a commencement of suit has been paid,) fifty cents
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50 |
Writs or other process on appeals from justices' courts or other courts of inferior jurisdiction to a court of record, fifty cents
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50 |
Warrant of distress, when the amount of rent claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars, twenty-five cents
|
25 |
When the amount claimed exceeds one hundred dollars, fifty cents
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50 |
Provided, That no writ, summons, or other process issued by, and returnable to, a justice of the peace, except as hereinbefore provided, or by any police or municipal court having no larger jurisdiction as to the amount of damages it may render than a justice of the piece [peace] in the same state, or issued in any criminal or other suits commenced by the United States, or any state, shall be subject to the payment of stamp duties: And provided further, That the stamp duties imposed by the foregoing schedule B on manifests, bills of lading, and passage-tickets, shall not apply to steamboats or other vessels plying between ports of the United States and ports in British North America.
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Affidavits in suits or legal proceedings shall be exempt from stamp duty.
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Schedule C.
SCHEDULE C.
Medicines or preparations.
| MEDICINES OR PREPARATIONS. | |
For and upon every packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other enclosure, containing any pills, powders, tinctures, troches, lozenges, sirups, cordials, bitters, anodynes, tonics, plasters, liniments, salves, ointments, pastes, drops, waters, essences, spirits, oils, or other medicinal preparations or compositions whatsoever, made and sold, or removed for consumption and sale, by any person or persons whatever, wherein the person making or preparing the same has, or claims to have, any private formula or occult secret or art for the making or preparing the same, or has, or claims to have, any exclusive right or title to the making or preparing the same, or which are prepared, uttered, vended, or exposed for sale under any letters-patent, or held out or recommended to the public by the makers, venders, or proprietors thereof as proprietary medicines, or as remedies or specifics for any disease, diseases, or affections whatever affecting the human or animal body, as follows: where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other enclosure, with its contents, shall not exceed, at retail price, or value, the sum of twenty-five cents, one cent
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1 |
Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other enclosure, with its contents, shall exceed the retail price or value of twenty-five cents, and not exceed the retail price or value of fifty cents, two cents
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2 |
Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other enclosure, with its contents, shall exceed the retail price or value of fifty cents, and shall not exceed the retail price or value of seventy-five cents, three cents
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3 |
Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other enclosure, with its contents, shall exceed the retail price or value of seventy-five cents, and shall not exceed the retail price or value of one dollar, four cents
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4 |
Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other enclosure, with its contents, shall exceed the retail price or value of one dollar, for each and every fifty cents or fractional part thereof over and above the one dollar, as before mentioned, an additional two cents
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2 |
